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Evil Dr Ganymede wrote:

t00fri wrote:But your "Hexa-world" is cute, indeed.

Erm, don't you recognise a cube when you see one?

Sure . That's why I called it Hexa world: six sides make a cube...Never heard of it?
"Cube" sounded much too profane for this 6-sided piece of art...

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:Sure . That's why I called it Hexa world: six sides make a cube...Never heard of it?
"Cube" sounded much too profane for this 6-sided piece of art...

Bye Fridger

OK, we're on different wavelengths as usual . I thought you were calling it a hexagon because it looked like one if you followed the edges in the picture...!

While you're right, I've never heard of a cube referred to as a "hexa-anything", which is why that connection didn't cross my mind.

How's this?



EDIT: I edited out the line that sometimes appear at the bottom of celestia screenshots, is that alright?

t00fri wrote:Cube" sounded much too profane for this 6-sided piece of art...

Nevertheless, after praise like this, all my planets will be cubical from now on.
Moons and spacecraft too - exept for Titan, which will be a dodecahedron,
since it is so strange. I now aim to become the Braque of the spaceways.
-rthorvald

rthorvald wrote:

t00fri wrote:Cube" sounded much too profane for this 6-sided piece of art...

Nevertheless, after praise like this, all my planets will be cubical from now on.
Moons and spacecraft too - exept for Titan, which will be a dodecahedron,
since it is so strange. I now aim to become the Braque of the spaceways.
-rthorvald

when I was an adolescent I had painting lessons with a
painter for quite a number of years ( 8 ). I was very fond of
Cubism and Braque in particular. What fascinated me most
was that an important aspect of cubistic painting was to
display the views of one object from /two/ or more
perspectives simultaneously! That's what typically creates
these "scewed" geometrical impressions.


So clearly you will have to push another Photoshop button,
if you are aiming to become the Braque of "space art"


Cheers,

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:I was very fond of
Cubism and Braque in particular

That is a little unusual, i think - i certainly didn??t "get" cubism at that age,
though i too studied art at the time, educating myself as an illustrator... It
wasn??t before much later on that i really started to appreciate more abstract art.
But then, my focus wasn??t on painting per se.

t00fri wrote:So clearly you will have to push another Photoshop button,
if you are aiming to become the Braque of "space art"

Undoubtely... Guess i??ll stick to spheres for now, then

Anyway, i??ll leave this thread to the screenshot contest again, now. Getting very off-topic here, i see..
-rthorvald

Incidentally, I just found a nice example on the WEB as to
the multiple perspective issue that is so
characteristic of cubism:

Braque's well-known "Harbour":

description wrote:Examining Braque's Harbour 1908 (Figure 1) we find an
abstract construction of houses and boats from their most
basic forms, being the cube, sphere and cone. Braque
eliminated a single perspective by painting the boats
and houses in multiple perspectives that he (and by
incidence most people) found most recognisable. These
included an aerial view of the struts and masts of the
boats, and the roofs of the houses (right side) but a
landscape view of the helms of the boats and arches of the
houses. Therefore Braque was not painting these objects as
he saw them, but as he 'knew' them.

Bye Fridger

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