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- " Nuclear Mystical Portrait of Salvador Dali', appearing over the
- Calm of Port Ligot, among his Elements"
- Also known as "Homage to Dali'"
- ....Louis Markoya 1/1/90
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- Salvador Dali' 1904-1989, served as the illegitimate father of my
- artistic desires. I worked with him during the years 1970-76 on a
- wide variety of projects, from "normal" media (oils, watercolor,
- charcoal, etc.) to holograms, stereoscopic paintings and flying fried
- egg models, which, by the way, actually flew.
-
- This picture is in his honor. Dali appears in the manner of his
- Nuclear Mystical period, the precursor and evolutionary step to the
- present science of chaos. He is surrounded by the objects he most
- loved, and used with his paranoiac critical method. It is centered
- on the spot found just outside his home in Spain and appears in
- many of his paintings. The boat is his wife's, who appears on the
- banner behind the crutch and soft watch.
-
- For you ray tracing enthusiasts, this is a Turbo Silver SV trace.
- Done on an Amiga 2000, with Ronin 020/881 card and 6 megs of
- RAM (2 32bit megs) The CELL size was 1,325,897bytes, the trace
- time was 47hrs, 13 min. The long trace time could be attributed to
- the close proximity of several objects to the camera, and
- maintaining their desired size. This caused these to be VERY small,
- increasing trace times dramatically.
-
- All that you see is a ray trace, the picture of Gala, Dali's wife,
- was mapped on the flag/banner to match the same object as it
- appeared in the Dali' painting, "The Discovery of America by
- Christopher Columbus". The landscape of Port Ligot was first
- approximated using Terrain, then fine tuned within Silver. It was
- mapped with a low res IFF map done in Deluxe Paint to match the
- coloring found at that local...( and match the coloring of Dali'
- paintings of the same scene.)
-
- The Face object is comprised of a grid of about 1100 Glossy
- spheres, some with wings, to add to the appearance of the much
- loved Dali object flies. Within the grid of spheres is found an egg,
- object of euclidian perfection and again, a much used image by
- Dali'. The objects in the sky to the left of the trace are Dalinian
- Rhinoceros Horns, objects of both sexual and chaotic importance.
-
- The trace and its objects was composed and completed over a seven
- month period in which I worked on it part time, beyond other
- projects. It represents my most complex and intricate 3D work as
- of yet. The image fully copyrighted but is freely distributable over
- electronic media as long as this file is kept intact.
-
- I may be contacted on PLINK ID: L.Markoya, CIS ID: 75766,504 or
- written to at the following;
- Louis Markoya
- 49 Walnut Ave.
- Shelton, CT 06484
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