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Old February 7th, 2003, 06:39 AM
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Default Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars

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Originally posted by David Gervais:
First, let's satisfy your curiosity..

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I like the border, although I think the new reflection in the corner interferes with the original reflection in the "glass".
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..now about M.C. Escher.. This self-portrait of his turned out ok, but all the 'drawings' I managed to try shrinking had way too much detail to survive the process. So I guess you're out of luck!

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Cheers!
Very nice!

I did a little searching and came up with a couple of Eschers that may survive the shrinking. Let me know what you think:

(Book cover)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/08...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Probably the most likely candidate, as the shapes are already fairly small. I like the sphere or the knots. Here's a better Version of the bottom knot:


(3 Spheres)
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/i3d/i3d/peo...res.escher.gif
If we pick just one--the left one would look cool, and I'll bet you'd still be able to recognize the center one, too.

(Dewdrop on Leaf)
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~runnion/...es/dewdrop.jpg
A close crop of the center drop would probably work out decently.

(Close up of eyeball with skull)
http://btr0xw.rz.uni-bayreuth.de/cja...p-escher10.htm
Now THIS one would be VERY cool. You'd have to crop the center pretty close, but I bet if you cropped it right around the iris you could still see the center detail.
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