I'm a T68 owner and work in the telecoms industry. My colleagues and I said months ago that the only way to sell these things is to go out there and show people what they can do. Admittedly, we meant doing it in a company t-shirt...:)
MMS has launched here in.uk, and still I get a blank stare at the mention of it. There are probably more than a few people on here who haven't heard about it, and that in a community of geeks! Spend 30 seconds explaining what you can do with it, and that blank stare turns into uncontrollable drooling.
We have all this great technology that nobody knows about. Anything that gets people informed about it and wanting it, gets average subscriber revenues up, and gets the network operators spending money, (and keeps me in a job), is a good thing in my book.
I'd still rather they were being a bit more open about this though.
Of course, he probably drew what he saw rather than calculating reflection, refraction and all that other raytracing stuff, and in this respect (the lack of maths) it's probably one of his simpler works.
But think about it: You look down at the paper to draw a little, then look back up again - if your head's not exactly where it was before, everything will have moved. I'd have cheated, taken a photo to work from, then drawn my ugly mug in where the camera appeared... maybe Escher did too?
"There is beauty in the math, too, and grace, and yes, even art."
Valid point. To me, just the bare grids have a beauty all their own. The remind me of the structure of a glass roof. And to think they've been there underneath, all this time, and I've never known.
Of course, now I'm going to go looking for them, and I will probably have some strange vision/psychiatric disorder by the end of the week...
Wow.
I've loved Escher's work for as long as I can remember. But I never knew it was this complex. Guess I always imagined he was smoking something interesting.
My favourite Escher work is his "Three Spheres". I dabble with raytracing and regularly give my P4 a headache. Anyone who can do this sort of thing without a computer is a genius in my book.
Going to go back and look at the diagrams properly now, see if I can learn something.
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I'm a T68 owner and work in the telecoms industry. My colleagues and I said months ago that the only way to sell these things is to go out there and show people what they can do. Admittedly, we meant doing it in a company t-shirt... :)
MMS has launched here in .uk, and still I get a blank stare at the mention of it. There are probably more than a few people on here who haven't heard about it, and that in a community of geeks! Spend 30 seconds explaining what you can do with it, and that blank stare turns into uncontrollable drooling.
We have all this great technology that nobody knows about. Anything that gets people informed about it and wanting it, gets average subscriber revenues up, and gets the network operators spending money, (and keeps me in a job), is a good thing in my book.
I'd still rather they were being a bit more open about this though.
That's the fella.
Of course, he probably drew what he saw rather than calculating reflection, refraction and all that other raytracing stuff, and in this respect (the lack of maths) it's probably one of his simpler works.
But think about it: You look down at the paper to draw a little, then look back up again - if your head's not exactly where it was before, everything will have moved. I'd have cheated, taken a photo to work from, then drawn my ugly mug in where the camera appeared... maybe Escher did too?
"There is beauty in the math, too, and grace, and yes, even art."
Valid point. To me, just the bare grids have a beauty all their own. The remind me of the structure of a glass roof. And to think they've been there underneath, all this time, and I've never known.
Of course, now I'm going to go looking for them, and I will probably have some strange vision/psychiatric disorder by the end of the week...
Wow. I've loved Escher's work for as long as I can remember. But I never knew it was this complex. Guess I always imagined he was smoking something interesting.
My favourite Escher work is his "Three Spheres". I dabble with raytracing and regularly give my P4 a headache. Anyone who can do this sort of thing without a computer is a genius in my book.
Going to go back and look at the diagrams properly now, see if I can learn something.
Wow.