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[integer at www.god-emil.dk]

>At 07:10 AM 5/9/2005, you wrote:
>>Hi Barbara,
>>I made a slight change to the Java Applet. Took out what I think is 
>>causing the crash. Could you try it again and let me know if it works this 
>>time? You might have to clear out your browsers cache before trying.
>
>Hi Pall.
>
>This time it worked, very well.  I am impressed by the project and wonder 
>about about your choice of landscape imagery (images of place rather than, 
>for example, imagery that would suggest a story).  I do like the landscape 
>imagery, though.  I think that there is a subtle comic effect too when the 
>computer gives equal attention and visual weight to every part of the 
>drawing ... (that approach is in contrast to the usual understanding of 
>drawing as a process of mental dialogue - resulting in a set of marks that 
>is based on a visual interplay between selected areas of actual detail and 
>larger areas of marks where detail is only suggested... a lot to expect of 
>a computer!)


a lot to expect of an artist







>The rapid pencil sketch is one of the staples of traditional visual arts. It can be anything from simple art-calisthenics and studies to a full blown work of art. Here we see the computer "playing" artist, making rapid sketches (traces) of landscapes (real-time images from traffic cameras) seen through it's windows (browser windows). The subject matter is something that many of us take for granted, seldom stopping to consider the aesthetic charm of the increasingly complex structures that Kraftwerk sang so memorably about in their song "Autobahn". But they portrayed the freeway as a blissfull place for a leisurely, automotive, family outing. Can this place of increasingly severe accidents, con-artists, high-speed police chases and practice-range for morally deprived gun owners still be seen in the serene imagery conjured up by Kraftwerks song?


sissi MOTHER FUKERz + reality = .... kraftverk






...


pl

>As a bicycler/pedestrian I experienced the freeways as a bit of a nuisance.

        surprize




>I spent a lot of time on getting the traced images to resemble pencil 
>sketches. What tracing programs look for in images is color changes. 


>One of the really interesting things about the computer doing the 
>drawing is the total disregard for what's being drawn. 


komputer - you =



>Familiarity is 
>actually one of the things that makes drawing difficult. It causes 
>people to draw things that aren't there. You might be sketching a house 
>that you're looking at and find that you've drawn more of the roof than 
>you can actually see just because you know what a roof looks like and 
>you know it's there even though you can't see it. So the computer is 
>able to give us a very unique rendition of a sketched car because the 
>computer has no idea what a car looks like. It won't emphasize the 
>typical things that define a car like wheels. I really like some of the 
>cars that show up in the drawings.