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by Daub 4y ago
Ahhh. I did not make myself clear. Apologies. The nested numbers refer to house numbers. A two order nest is easy enough. Its when it reaches five that things get weird.
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Here in Vietnam we have an interesting address system. Between main streets there are dense networks of very narrow streets, impassable to anything other than pedestrians. These are called hems and none of them have names. These hems are ki
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I am dyslexic and my spelling is completely garbage without spellcheck. Even so, Spellcheck cannot recognize many of my misspellings. I have always wondered if there is a way to recognize the word I am trying to spell by its shape (form) an
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by Daub 4y ago
The first time this happened the official explanation was that the cable had been bitten by sharks. The Vietnamese loved this, so now every time the internet is slow we just say ‘sharks’.
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In Vietnam now. The speed is slow but not as slow as a crawl. More like a swift jog.
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I teach painting and many of the points I make in class are covered by this resource. Importantly, that the sky is almost always the brightnest thing in a landscape, even at night and that colour vision at night is poor. Great resource.
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Well… an oil painter would not add black. Rather they would add the complementary color. This would darken and also neutralize the base color. A digital painter could achieve the same effect with a simple multiplication (add black via multi
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Your art teacher was correct. The problem is that humans start off with a linear approach to drawing. The first drawings they do as children are done with lines, and tones are usually an afterthought.
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You have stated the problem exactly. However, in practice a painter employs a fair amount of 'bodging' (favoring appearance over exactitude). For example, it is not entirely unusual to discover that a landscape features more than
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by Daub 4y ago
Fascinating article. This is a subject I have some expertise in as I teach oil painting, digital painting, drawing, compositing and 3D rendering. What the article missies is the real reason that artists have avoided hard-edged shadows since
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by Daub 4y ago
Over the years I have worked in many universities. Many of the so-called critical thinkers I meet are anything but. Their writings echo pre-approved wisdoms and take a generally template-driven approach to all matters. I only need to read o
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First there were the journalists, who fully researched their material from first-hand sources. Then there were the bloggers who, without leaving their armchair, wrote opinion pieces based on whatever the journalists had written. Now there i
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I think that most manifestos are rhetorical devices, used mainly for opening up discourse.
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Yep. There is (in my opinion) a genealogical line that connects Futurism to Dada to Punk. Certainly their typography presents very similarly. In spirit, they all spent a lot of energy rejecting the status quo and not much in developing alte
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> but you definitely seem to have a grudge Yup. I guess I do. Perhaps I overstated my feelings, but as an art and design teacher such non-truths are the bane of my life. Almost all 2D aesthetic images (paintings, art photographs or page
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by Daub 4y ago
The rule of thirds (ROT) is one of the most pernicious lies ever foisted upon pictorial aesthetics. Here is an essay I wrote on the subject: https://www.dropbox.com/s/il89ks8jzw8wwsd/thirds.pdf?dl=0 To summarize:
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> Elements should go in order of visual weight I think that this might be more true in screen based work than in printed publications. The focus of a printed page tends towards the top, but not necessarily at the top. A webpage is a dif
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An effective collection. Around half of these principles can be generalized as one form or another of background/ foreground contrast.
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Thanks. I have not seen it. Will put it on my list.
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Fascinating stuff. I teach motion graphics and the first assignment I give my students is to create an abstract animation that responds to a given piece of music. I have long ago given up on requiring students to produce storyboards. I find
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As a one-eyes person, the illusion works fine for me. However, it ceases to work in the periphery of my vision.
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Around how many samples are required for an effective training set?
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The language of high-level art-direction can be way more complex than one might assume. I wonder how this model might cope with the following: ‘Decrease high-frequency features of background.’ ‘Increase intra-contrast of middle ground to fo
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by Daub 4y ago
Details on how it was made… https://youtu.be/bD1wWY1YD-M
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This quote... > When I handed the form in to the security officer, he scanned it quickly, looked me over slowly, then said, ``Explain this''--pointing at the FBI question. I described what had happened. He got very agitated, pi
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by Daub 4y ago
Agreed. This effects everyone, event At a simple user level. We have access to Adobe Creative Cloud at uni. Every time I walk into a new classroom, I need to go through the creative cloud academicc licence dance. Sign in, sign out, sign in
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Entirely anecdotal, but I had a freind who had been a smoker for fifty years. On giving up he was delighted to smell tomatoes for the first time since his boyhood. Before that point, I had never before considered tomatoes as even having a s
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Good question. Errors are one part of what drives evolution. 'useful accidents'.
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And downs syndrome.
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For me, this OP website represents the internet at its best: a platform for the particular needs of particular people. It also serves as an appealing resource for anyone teaching UI/UX. Related, this guy: https://www.youtube

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