d a t a c o s m -- aka "andalusian blerg"

[havran]

The ever-popular text-in-space design, using:

Plane3d
Global perspective (Draw palette)
Textures with transparency on (Texture palette)
I think I used the 'flat color' material

Made the textures in PSP -- just colored text on a black background (which is what becomes transparent)

(got this idea while looking at album covers in a music magazine -- could also be used for 3d poetry concrète)

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200309/user_image-1063425213umh.gif

[Stonecutter]

Cool effect, H! :tu: :cool: :tu:
And a really cool image...Took me back to 1969...(Guess what I was doing then, and still do? ;) )

[jim coe]

Yep, them '60s!
And even the blacklight colors. Could have been a poster.

Nice work! Would love to see an animated version (multiplane version of StarWars intro). Be nice in stereo also.

[Ron Harris]

Big Kev!!! You show up with a bang on this one. I like this alot ..the colors, perspective and the depth the image has with the writing in the far background of the scene. Very high tech looking, like the Matrix or something. I think you are onto some kewl work with this style. :tu: :tu: :tu: P.S. My sound is out on my computer....otherwise i would have checked your music out ... :( I am sure I am missing a treat...


almost forgot to ask....and please forgive my ignorance...but what is "3d poetry concrète"

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi Havran
Super Cool composition :cool:
What is the text ?
It's a little hard for me to see all the caracters !
Pilou

[havran]

thanks guys, this is really gratifying :)

copped the blue and indigo-purple scheme from a couple of ads, and apparently "fluoro-green" is my middle name ;) -- as it developed, it reminded me of 2001 and Neuromancer -- had forgotten all about blacklight posters until jim brought it up :D

if Gainesville gets too boring, I just might have to move somewhere in the northleft :D -- I really thrive in cool weather, rain and fog and could use some more cultural activity

so SC, are you trying to tell us that you ... enjoy science fiction? *gasp* ;) -- on a side note, it's nice to see SF reviving in the 1990's and 2000's -- but at 43 I'm thinking that the New Wave era was a pretty rich one, so I'm grazing on Aldiss and thinking of getting all the New Worlds and Chrysalis collections

hey jim, the animated version is possible but I'm pretty lazy :D -- this year I bought a license for Blitz3d, which is a great language/engine for single-programmer games, but which could also be used for silly multimedia projects

btw, I had your "focal point" tip in mind from another post -- and this one happend to turn out well because it acts as a destination but it's unresolved, avoiding stasis

hey Ron, thanks :) -- I'm not sure I got the original term right, but I was thinking of 2d poems where different pieces are arranged on the page, sometimes in different fonts and sizes, sometimes rotated -- and then taking this into 3d -- might be hard though to come up with a resonant poem that way -- probably best used for ad copy (as the 2d version has been used for a decade or two)

hey Frenchy -- well, it's just nonsense words to fill up the texture:

blerg andaloto
miako jeletha
sudaru ganato
barithra lamu
fal eleta moti
nal piota soti

I don't think Babelfish will help much :D

[Frenchy Pilou]

Of course, they haven't tibetan laguage in store :D
Pilou

[jim coe]

Hi havran,

What a fun post. I think you've been reading too much science fiction and it's turning you into a writer! Hmmm... gotta get back to some Aldiss...

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>..and this one happend to turn out well because it acts as a destination but it's unresolved, avoiding stasis.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Interesting composition concept - and i agree. Despite the one-axis symmetry, your image sends me a strong feeling of movement.

[Reyd]

forgive some more of my ignorance, but what do you mean by global perspective?
as far as Sci Fi goes Robert Heinlein, and Spider Robinson are way up there,
espescially Spider Robinson. :D

[havran]

hey Reyd

"global perspective" in the sense that certain user-selected 3d tools share the same vanishing point:

(a) with a 3d tool selected, open the Draw palette and shift-click on the Perspective button to activate global perspective for that tool

(b) then hold shift and drag from the Distortion slider onto the canvas, to set the global [universal/accessible to to all 3d tools] vanishing point

if you use other 3d tools in the scene, you only have to do step (a) for them, because they will all share the vanishing point that was set in step (b) above -- otherwise each instance of those tools would have its own individual perspective distortion, adjusted with the number in the Distortion slider

as for other senses of "global perspective" -- well, "black hole hums B flat (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096776.stm)" was my favorite news story this past week :D

jim: I had to put something there, and that was about the right size, so yet another happy accident ;)

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi reyd
The better science (fiction? :) images are here :) (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
I believe that you can find some black hole too :D
Like this one ! (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030601.html)
Some frightening isn't it ? :eek: :eek: :eek:
Pilou

[andreseloy]

Hi Havran I wan to congratulate for this work, I have been reading the way you do it and the comments that has reply, is a very nice scene and I think have a lot of aplication.
Congratulations