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{ · 1 · } “transparent intricacy” by Dennis Clarke [ 4 June 2006 ]
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“transparent intricacy”
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In my mind I see great art in science and engineering. The OpenSolaris
project is an expression of both great engineering and of an artistic
philosophy. Share. Give freely. Be open. As an artist I wanted to
capture the feeling of open as well as transparency. It is my desire
that the viewer would look closely for the intricacy and beauty inside
this glass structure. OpenSolaris is like this. It is an almost artistic
expression of sharing and openness wrapped within the terrific intricacy
of many millions of lines of code. UNIX. Real UNIX. The roman columns
and stone structure must capture the maturity and strength while the
double nested crystal structure expresses beauty and transparency. It is
my hope that I captured all these feelings.
This is what OpenSolaris is to me.
Dennis Clarke
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{ · 2 · } “smoke & mirrors” by Dennis Clarke [ 8 June 2006 ]
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“smoke & mirrors”
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This is just an experiment with the glass structure from the previous image,
much darker and with the transparency and open feelings retained.
Some people would refer to the OpenSolaris project as just “smoke & mirrors”
back in the days of the pilot project. No one could possibly believe that Sun
would actually make Solaris open. While we members of the pilot project were
telling people that “yes, in fact, the source was open”, we had some people that
simply found that to be impossible in the light of the SCO situation.
Thus I am taking my geometric intrepretation of the multi-layered OpenSolaris
sources with all the services and putting it inside a room of “smoke & mirrors”.
n.b.: This image required 58 hours 3 minutes 7 seconds to render at
a resolution of 6400 × 4800 pixels. All renderwork was done with
a Genesi ODW Workstation running Fedora Core 4 for PowerPC and
my own build of POV-Ray 3.6.1 for PowerPC.
Dennis Clarke Thu Jun 8 19:01:46 EDT 2006
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