Monday, January 10, 2005

Images in Shadow.... con't. Still working out the issues from the last couple of days for making tile (or other relief decoration) that produces images from their shadows- To make sure the image is seen easily, the color of the clay should be light.  This allows for the greatest contrast with the shadow. One tile pattern (or relief) produces a particular gradiation of gray.  If the same pattern is used throughout the image, for that particular gray, the image could probably be made out with out the need for the shadow. However, if one has several different patterns that would individually make that gray, then one could randomly select a particular pattern for each gray instance.  I think this would make the image harder to discern without shadow. In this way the 'magic' of the shadow producing the image is better preserved, along with the ability for the image to best occur only on a particular date. 1:28:57 PM