a couple of days
fooling around with those striped pattern logarithmic arc'd spline
solids, radiosity
this, radiosity that stochastic this - how far down can you push
it and have it look interesting instead of how far up since i obviously
am not going to be alive on the planet long enough to test all the
cases of the latter turn the strips this way and that and tweak the
color here and there watch the moiré pattern leak away and the
light collector amplifier doing its imitation of "you're staring
really hard at this" hypercolor
sort of thing and then i turn the spline objects into skinned object,
and then use the deskinner to peel the outside off the ribs and yes
there they are all lined up
in a nice row like i could have done in days if i hadn't thought
to do it this way and now there's these primitive slats at exact
right
angles to where the skin used to be, all arranged along the chord
of the original curve
and yes it still throws a shadow - An interesting and presumptuous
young shape that draws upon historical referents to give it body
- some faint echoes of the architectonically
organic, with a brief aftertaste of nascent casus belli or causus
bonum ribbonforms - symbols calling us to war or to our dead and
missing
and sick unto death friends, this yellow ribbon, that red or pink
curl there in your lapel on your blouse that house or tree these
red white
blue striped blinds and who will mourn for the 1st and 2nd and all
the other shackled amendments that formerly so joyfully leavened
our polity and country turn on the radiosity and stochastic sampler
and
go with 1 32 2 32 1 1 we know there's no point in setting front and
backface sampling
caches because everything is going to be so unique
Flag Blinds - an irony butterfly signed and sealed this july 4th 2003
