Re: RYBDeK01 2005

2005-09-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
this and others in a book - Alan On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, mwp wrote: RYBDeK01 2005 http://www.kunst.no/bjornmag/mpphp2004/RYBDeK022005.jpg (650 KB) A digitized version of an abstract painting by W. De Kooning is selected as source, and the hue values of the image are distributed into 6 separate areas

Re: RYBDeK01 2005

2005-09-29 Thread mwp
On Sep 29, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: This is quite beautiful; I certainly prefer it to De Kooning (except the late De Kooning, another story and there's one, altogether). This is also amazing from an aesthetic viewpoint - and how much does aesthetics play a role in your work?

Re: RYBDeK01 2005

2005-09-29 Thread Sheila Murphy
Your comments here are quite engaging, and I appreciate them. I join Alan in appreciating what you have going here. Bravo! Sheila --- mwp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 29, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: This is quite beautiful; I certainly prefer it to De Kooning (except the

Re: RYBDeK01 2005

2005-09-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
Thanks for all of this. Two things - I wonder first if it would be possible at all to reverse-engineer - I'm thinking naturally of the 'naked people' piece - to recuperate any of the original configuration? And second - here more of the Johns - where any of the configurations might be 'leaked'

Re: RYBDeK01 2005

2005-09-29 Thread mwp
I don’t think it would be possible to go back and reconstruct the original, even if one knew the process. Naturally, at the programming stage one could position-stamp every transformation of the data to allow it to be reconstructed later on, but as it stands now, the information simply gets