Hi Pall, I see your point. But there is a real beauty to watching the image unfold without quite knowing what you're looking at until it's fully rendered. Anyway, I'm really enjoying watching the work as it evolves :)
xx Renee On Dec 31, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: > Hi Renee, > Thanks for the comments. I agree that perhaps the tiled background > is a > bit much but I still think it comes out well to have a reference > showing > exactly what the actual image looks like at the moment. In this case > I'm > taking a low-res image and enlarging it to 800x600 and then > manipulating > it for the "painted experience". So at times the lack of clarity may > be > confusing. The viewer may not understand why the image is all black > (perhaps it's night) or all white (perhaps it's snowing), etc. As > far as > the background being disturbing "noise" to me it doesn't seem like > that > much of an issue since what's occurring in the "painted" image happens > so slowly and gradually. So, obviously, having a map as the background > image wouldn't really do anything to cover these concerns. > > It would be interesting to hear what others think. > > best r. > Pall > > Renee Turner wrote: >> Hi Pall, >> >> I quite like it without the background. I wonder if a map view or >> almost clinical description of the location might suffice >> (geographical coordinates?). With the tiled background, there seems >> to be too much visual competition. The slow building of the >> processing animation is simply stunning :-) >> >> best, Renee >> www.geuzen.org >> www.fudgethefacts.com >> >> On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: >> >>> I've been toying around with the presentation of this piece and just >>> added something new that I think is quite interesting. The page now >>> displays as a background image the actual image as opposed to the >>> low >>> res "painted" image. It provides sort of a reference point so that >>> the >>> viewer can get a better idea of what's actually going on. >>> >>> http://pallit.lhi.is/hekla/applet/ >>> >>> best r. >>> Pall >>> >>> -- >>> ***************************** >>> Pall Thayer >>> artist >>> http://www.this.is/pallit >>> ***************************** >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
