Acorn - Something for you when you run out of things to do. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/...s-diana-smith/
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Acorn - Something for you when you run out of things to do. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/...s-diana-smith/
Gary, thank you for that.
She is however mad for not using a Xara Desktop application.
We actually have a simpler mechanism in our Xara applications already: the Rounded Corner Rectangle.
From this you can create a Circle or Ellipse or any box shape.
This can be Skewed and Scaled.
It can have a Line Thickness.
It will accept a Linear Fill of many colours, including Transparent. Do not use the Transparency Tool; this creates PNGs.
Start and End Point that are Transparent, with interior coloured points vanish in the design but are published properly.
With this one shape almost all of what she has been doing is possible, all without a single PNG or JPEG.
Acorn
I have a friend and neighbor who designed her home using QuarkXPress. Go figure.
heck I still do rough sketches with a wooden pencil.... on actual paper... :)
@ acorn
I think you may have missed the point ;)
Missing the point would be to avoid Pointillism.
If she is genuinely working in HTML/CSS then she has removed the ability to fluidly position shapes to create an image.
With Xara, you can at least build up Layers (like watercolour painting), and retain artistic control.
Her "point", as I read it was to have a mechanism that created realistic images that can be scaled without loss of fidelity.
i assumed this from her statements around her CSS Font as well as her baroque paintings.
Her "rules" are:
- All elements must be typed out by hand
- Only Atom text editor and Chrome Developer Tools allowed
- No SVG allowed (no offense to SVG)
My "rules", equally, could be:
- Any placed element must be derived from a rounded-corner rectangle
- Only an XDA allowed
Pointillism's "rules" might be:
- Any placed element must a coloured pixel
- Only an XDA allowed
Just saying,
Acorn
It's a sad reflection on TG at how so many threads focus on minutiae rather than celebrate the skill and beauty of the result.
Very impressive Gary.
I am not politically correct... but I am an artist [as in art school] first and foremost, and I know that the only sensible answer an artist can give to the question 'why did you do it like that' is 'because I can'
if you think that the final product is all that matters then you do not understand the artistic [=as opposed to design] process - I had a friend who did watercolours - they always ended up a mess, he was the first to admit they were a mess, but what he loved was the process of doing it...
I cannot speak for the artist in question, but I am not going to say I know better, because I know better [than that]
can you do pointillism ?Quote:
Missing the point would be to avoid Pointillism
@paul - just seen your post - its very skillfull and very beautiful yes, way beyond what I could ever do whatever way i chose to tackle it, nothing but admiration...
So I get marked down if I look at something, appreciate it and work out how I might do it and share my creative idea?
There are some of us who think they are not artistic but would like to have a go but don't know any of the techniques: pointillism, watercolour, 3D-modelling, etc.
For every true artist, there are a cohort of technicians who promote, assist and develop the art, not playing second fiddle, but participating.
The medium for art has changed over time. currently, it is the Internet. Tomorrow, it may be augmented reality.
Computing is a case in point. I am an analyser, developer, designer, implementer and integrator by profession. Most are just users. Neither would exist without the other.
My reflection is TG is no longer a true forum where people can engage in debate.
Every one is right and no one wrong so let's celebrate that.
Acorn
I feel we should be able to embrace an achievement rather than pick it apart and criticise it.
Is she mad? certainly, but I admire her for taking a challenge on.
Nobody is marking you and I didn't mention you specifically. By all means present your take on it.
I am not the TG police.
The joy is in Gary's post and Diana Smith's incredible skill and doggedness.