On Apr 28, 11:23=A0pm, "n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <Alien8...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 28, 1:21 am, gandoza <gand...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I received this picture on the e-mail .
> > Have been working on =A01884 .
> > This work was done only by single line, starting from the nose and
> > ending the lower part, as shown on the image
>
> =A0 I'll note the drawn line begins following a circle but morphs slowly
> to an oval.
>
> > Of course, there are some final toutches.
>
> =A0 Do you mean those places (e.g. in the beard) where the line width
> varies to indicate that ****tion is darker? This is similar to the
> halftone process which has been around conceptually since the 1850's
> and commercially since the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. I can see
> no reason to assume it was done after the line was drawn, IOW it could
> easily have been done on the fly.
>
> > What do you think about this amazing art ....
>
> =A0 Completely disregarding the science fictional aspects of the subject
> matter...
>
> =A0 It's beautiful. ISTR some attempts in that era to transmit images
> electrically by spirally scanning them with an early photocell, then
> reproducing the with an electrically-valved ink pen. Sort of a
> Steampunk SpiroFax.
It's so amazing I'm not sure I believe it was mechanically executed by
a human being in the 19th century, rather than a machine in the
20/21st. A weird sort of forgery if it was.
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