tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post2703892043369739681..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: advanced engineering in the temples of the pharoahs...,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-6118087770575709282012-03-13T19:49:06.876-05:002012-03-13T19:49:06.876-05:00What I find interesting too is that the artists/de...What I find interesting too is that the artists/designer/priest whatever felt the need to do this with the human face. Usually, in art as in life both halves of the face are mirror images of the other half. But not exactly. These guys went to extreme lengths to make both the left and right side of the face absolute reverse images of each other. Perfect symmetry.nomadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-30414275770614791202012-03-13T18:32:58.121-05:002012-03-13T18:32:58.121-05:00Thanks for weighing in John.
Is there any geodeti...Thanks for weighing in John.<br /><br />Is there any geodetic, geometric, or other structural information embedded in Mount Rushmore? Are you familiar with Schwaller de Lubicz, the Temple in Man and Sacred Science - and what do you make of all that if so? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Schwaller_de_Lubicz<br /><br />Ed's savant skills were diligently and exhaustively sussed out after the Manhattan Project. He is not an accident, rather, his talents were the deliverable resulting from a massive project in savant identification and development.CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-84852699052523601372012-03-13T14:47:26.063-05:002012-03-13T14:47:26.063-05:00Couldn't tell ya. I know Borglum used plaster ...Couldn't tell ya. I know Borglum used plaster models with precise measurements, and then just scaled up to Mount Rushmore, an inch to a foot, so nothing more complicated than multiplying by 12. In the works I've done for the weekend sculptor, that's what I'd do, simple arithmetic. But I wouldn't rule out the savant skills of humans versus machine technologies. After all, who built the machines?John Kurmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-70978980121157326472012-03-13T13:05:33.218-05:002012-03-13T13:05:33.218-05:00I think that's the whole point of the video ex...I think that's the whole point of the video exposition BD. The precision and symmetry exhibited in exceedingly hard materials by these Egyptian sculptors rivals or exceeds that obtained by numerically controlled milling machines...,CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-50198624579541140202012-03-13T12:33:47.252-05:002012-03-13T12:33:47.252-05:00The way we used to do it with model cars, clay or ...The way we used to do it with model cars, clay or balsa wood, take a strip of wood, drill lotta holes in a line, stick a pointed dowel (tight fit) thru each hole. Affix the strip/dowel assy next to the pattern side, push each dowel thru the strip til it just touches the pattern. Move to other side and carve away wherever it's high. No math involved, pretty damned close symmetry short of a numerically-controlled milling machine......Big Donnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-17403609963261967412012-03-13T10:44:59.655-05:002012-03-13T10:44:59.655-05:00whew...., I was hoping one of the artists in resid...whew...., I was hoping one of the artists in residence, (Nomad, Kurman, GeeCheeVision) would chime in with some subject matter expertise with regard to the actuals and factuals involved in producing such sculpture. I've had the opportunity to spend some time with an ancient mechanical engineer named Ed Welch who possesses the gift of exacting drafting skills and is a master machinist to boot, and I've seen some of his highly complex moving constructions - and - no way no how did the notion of a template enter into those transactions.<br /><br />Giving BD the benefit of the doubt as an engineer, I'm thinking "well, maybe he knows a thing or two about a thing or two and has commented in good faith" but then.....,CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-91153568991845798162012-03-13T10:27:30.666-05:002012-03-13T10:27:30.666-05:00it's a piece of cake to just make a template a...it's a piece of cake to just make a template and flip it over <br />Not really. Even on a small scale, it's impossible without knowledge of geometry. I've dealt with the problem of exact symmetry in a lot of my own art work. To attain such exactitude at that scale is phenomenal. Stupendously so. Requiring, perhaps, an understanding of mathematics that exceeds our own. nomadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-84684645235028155172012-03-13T05:06:42.488-05:002012-03-13T05:06:42.488-05:00....OTOH, it's a piece of cake to just make a .......OTOH, it's a piece of cake to just make a template and flip it over to easily reproduce/generate complex opposite-hand contours. You don't hafta know *any* math or analytic geometry at all......Big Donnoreply@blogger.com