| I might suggest the works of M.C. Escher. His perpetual waterfall is
| a work that I am consistently going back to figure out how to turn into a VE
| artpiece. I have seen someone else's work with some of his other work, and it
| could be a rather interesting project.
Yes! I was going to suggest something similar. I think trying to implement
a Van Gogh painting in VR is a bit of a tedious idea -- though I wasn't
going to say anything this time around, since I'm getting a track record
on this list of a decidedly negative attitude :) There's something about
a cross-over of media there (with the Van Gogh painting) which bothers me;
I wouldn't try to novelize or cinematize "Starry Night" much less
virtualize it.
Escher provides the sense of -space- and the sense of complicity and motion
bundled into one which make him a truly exciting prospect for VR work.
Mind you: I'm not even sure it's -possible- to construct an Escher space
in VR, but when thinking about designing worlds, his worlds always
represent a certain ideal. You take one look and you know that you will
never be able to fully comprehend what they are, or where they are.
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