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Anyway, if you did, it would look something like this.

What a weird time was the Regency! If Jane Austen is to believed, everyone was going at it like bunnies with only the occasional break for tea and biscuits.

Needless to say, the clothing was appropriately peacock-esque. For my midterm I have used OpenGL techniques to generate a number of Regency-like fabrics that could not fail to catch an eligible beau’s eye. Each was inspired by a real fabric example. I used different lighting and materials, geometries, multi-texturing, and proximity to the camera to get the various effects I wanted. And to make sure that each swatch stayed true to the spirit of cutthroat romantic rivalry, each is made solely out of a combination of the following four textures:

The final patchwork quilt of swatches can be found HERE

Just for kicks I have started applying some of these textures to a dress to see the final result. Unfortunately I don’t really have the technique down yet – This poor Regency lady will never bag an acceptable man of wealth and breeding. To be continued for the final.

The soft bits of an oyster are monstrous – a damp, smelly, possibly poisonous salty sludge, pulsating, living but unthinking, to slide down the throat raw….eek. It’s creepy just thinking about, for all that I love them with cocktail sauce.

But the hard bits of an oyster are beautiful and, dare I say it, cute! This is a child’s necklace. The idea is to feel all grown up and special like a big girl, but you can be sure her parent’s will not be thinking of the deep, briny origins of this adorability.

Here’s a nice little symbolic still life – and by still life I mean there’s all kinds of crazy rotations going on in there. Sourcecode here

Toucan Sam is a cultural object, in this case used for his “tropical” implications. In this case he is rendered as humerus and playful, and, at the same time he is given an Australian accent to accentuate his “exotic” connection.  The hope is that consumers will make the connection between brightly-colored birds, which are from topical locations, and fruit, which is from a tropical location.  To provide a second layer of connection t, he is given coloring on his beak that matches the loop shape of the cereal he represents

The toucan’s ability to fly and majestic form is the triggers for this tattoo.  The form is highly stylized to look majestic and serious, proper for a visual   incarnation as “Messenger of the gods”.  By showing the animal in profile, and only showing the most recognizable features, the tattoo keeps the sacred comfortably in the realm of symbolic and believable.  As Terry Pratchett says, “Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s [Seeing is] where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.”

This elegant and playful peice represents a minimalist toucan.   The streamlined body is played up, as is the modernist colors.  While there is no cultural subtext obvious, the owner of a piece like this has an obvious point to make:  I am modern and have an up-to-date sensibility.  I have connections to an exotic local where perhaps I visit sometimes.  I am a little playful, since this isn’t the type of piece someone who was insecure in their social position would show off.