I think art might be less about intent than it is about effect.
If you ask several art critics to talk about the meaning of a piece, they'll each give a different answer, and all of the answers will likely differ from what the artist himself intended. Art exists in the mind of the beholder, and it can exist differently in each mind.
An observer will imbue a work with his own meaning, and judge it on the merits he perceives.
Therefore, a picture generated by a computer, though it were done with little or no human input, might still be thought by someone to be beautiful or interesting. If an observer thinks it's art, then it has fullfilled the function of art, and I'm happy to call it art.
What would that give you? Ultra-white and infra-black? My understanding is that although RGB colors are generated additively, and CMYK colors are generated subtractively, both schemes generate the entire space of visible color and can be freely converted.
Can you elaborate on your statements?
That's certainly true of the ghostwritten novelization: Foster was contractually prohibited from revealing that he had written it.
But in all the research I've been doing since you made your claim, I've found nothing from either Foster or Lucas stating that Foster wrote the original screenplay. I have found, however, numerous references to his having ghostwritten the novelization.
Unless you can provide something along the lines of a statement from Foster or Lucas, all we have to go by is your claims of thirty-year-old memory (claims not supported by any information I've been able to find).
Would you be willing to point us in the right direction?
I can only assume you're mistaken, since every mention I can find of Foster's involvement with Star Wars mentions his novelization from the screenplay and does not mention his having written the screenplay itself; and since Lucas claims to have written the screenplay, and early drafts of the screenplay bear Lucas's name.
Are you suggesting that this is some secret that you're privy to, that the public isn't supposed to know about?
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I want them to get it who will actually use it, rather than squat on it.
I think art might be less about intent than it is about effect.
If you ask several art critics to talk about the meaning of a piece, they'll each give a different answer, and all of the answers will likely differ from what the artist himself intended. Art exists in the mind of the beholder, and it can exist differently in each mind.
An observer will imbue a work with his own meaning, and judge it on the merits he perceives.
Therefore, a picture generated by a computer, though it were done with little or no human input, might still be thought by someone to be beautiful or interesting. If an observer thinks it's art, then it has fullfilled the function of art, and I'm happy to call it art.
What would that give you? Ultra-white and infra-black? My understanding is that although RGB colors are generated additively, and CMYK colors are generated subtractively, both schemes generate the entire space of visible color and can be freely converted. Can you elaborate on your statements?
That's certainly true of the ghostwritten novelization: Foster was contractually prohibited from revealing that he had written it.
But in all the research I've been doing since you made your claim, I've found nothing from either Foster or Lucas stating that Foster wrote the original screenplay. I have found, however, numerous references to his having ghostwritten the novelization.
Unless you can provide something along the lines of a statement from Foster or Lucas, all we have to go by is your claims of thirty-year-old memory (claims not supported by any information I've been able to find).
Would you be willing to point us in the right direction?
Also, Foster wrote the original story for the first Star Trek movie (though the film ended up being substantially different).
Foster did ghostwrite the novelization for Lucas. Perhaps that's the source of your confusion.
Are you suggesting that this is some secret that you're privy to, that the public isn't supposed to know about?
> Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars (that's who actually
> wrote the screenplay for the movie, not George
> Lucas.)
Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelization of the movie, and some other Star Wars books. George Lucas wrote the screenplay.