X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,535e80416e502a8c X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: 10ffde,299d0bc3500e024c X-Google-Attributes: gid10ffde,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,535e80416e502a8c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-07 10:56:59 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!usenet.elf.com!rpi!psinntp!Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM!coldiron.keywest.mpgn.com!chrisb From: chrisb@central.keywest.mpgn.com (Christopher Beattie) Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.plutonium,alt.ascii-art,sci.math Subject: Re: Art, math, realism, ascii (Re: PARASITES INSIDE OF Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 21:15:32 Organization: Tantalus Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <318qce$fna@jac.zko.dec.com> <31bdjr$ppn@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coldiron.keywest.mpgn.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Xref: bga.com alt.ascii-art:10977 sci.math:17674 In article flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >From: flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) >Subject: Re: Art, math, realism, ascii (Re: PARASITES INSIDE OF >Date: 02 Aug 1994 17:30:50 GMT >> And, that "intent" can switch as time goes by. When da Vinci did the >>Mona Lisa, that female face was the highest dot per square cm >>resolution of any painting on Earth. But now we can do better than >>that. The highest resolution photograph of a beautiful female face >>excels the Mona Lisa. But the intent of the Mona Lisa has now switched >>from resolution of female face to big time money for auctioneers. Put >>the best resolution photograph of a female human next to the Mona Lisa >>into a museum of advanced aliens from another planet and the Mona Lisa >>is second rate in comparison. The Mona Lisa is not great because it was a precision drawing, (although the Mona Lisa does have to give a little of its modern day populatity to its creator's name, but only a little) but because of the expression on her face, the way the light reacts, and so forth. After all, protrait painters were a dime a dozen. As are photographers today. | --- --/ /-\ /-\ | Christopher Beattie | Disclamer: | | | / | | | / | Tantalus @ Key West | My opinions are mine. | | | /-- \-/ | \ | chrisb@central.keywest.mpgn.com |