Friday, September 19, 2008

20 colour palettes

vegie salad:




wilderness:




sunrise:




underwater:




rubber tree:




seaside:





port:



road at night




outskirts:




meadow:




night view:






lavender:




living room:





golf:




indoor:







fishes:




food:





disneyland at night:




farm:



bridge:



corals:






aquarium:




berries:

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

folklore,myth and legends

Rainbow:

One day when the earth was new, Nanbozho looked out the window of his house beside the wide waterfall and realized that all of the flowers in his meadow were exactly the same off-white color. How boring! He decided to make a change, so he gathered up his paints and his paintbrushes and went out to the meadow.

Nanbozho sat down in the tall grass and arranged his red and orange and yellow and green and blue and violet paint pots next to him. Then he began to paint the flowers in his meadow in many different colors. He painted the violets dark blue and the tiger lilies orange with brown dots. He made the roses red and pink and purple. He painted the pansies in every color combination he could think of. Then he painted every single daffodil bright yellow. Nanbozho hummed happily to himself as he worked in the brilliant daylight provided by Brother Sun.

Overhead, two little bluebirds were playing games with each other. The first little bluebird would chase his friend across the meadow one way. Then they would turn around and the second bluebird would chase him back the other way. Zippity-zip went the first bluebird as he raced across the sky. Zappity-zing went the second bluebird as he chased him in the brilliant sunshine.

Occasionally, Nanbozho would shade his eyes and look up…up into the endless blue sky to watch the two little birds playing. Then he went back to work, painting yellow centers in the white daisies. Above him, the two birds decided to see how fast they could dive down to the green fields below them. The first bluebird sailed down and down, and then pulled himself up sharply just before he touched the ground. As he soared passed Nanbozho, his right wing dipped into the red paint pot. When the second bluebird dove toward the grass, his left wing grazed the orange paint pot.

Nanbozho scolded the two birds, but they kept up their game, diving down toward the grass where he sat painting and then flying back up into the sky. Soon their feet and feathers were covered with paint of all colors. Finally Nanbozho stood up and waved his arms to shoo the birds away.

Reluctantly, the bluebirds flew away from Nanbozho and his paint pots, looking for another game to play. They started chasing each other again, sailing this way and that over top of the giant waterfall that stood next to Nanbozho's house. Zippity-zip, the first bluebird flew through the misty spray of the waterfall. The first bluebird left a long red paint streak against the sky. Zappity-zing, the second bluebird chased his friend through the mist, leaving an orange paint streak. Then the birds turned to go back the other way. This time, the first bluebird left a yellow paint streak and the second left a pretty blue-violet paint streak. As they raced back and forth, the colors grew more vivid. When Brother Sun shone on the colors, they sparkled radiantly through the mist of the waterfall.

Below them, Nanbozho looked up in delight when the brilliant colors spilled over his meadow. A gorgeous arch of red and orange and yellow and green and blue and violet shimmered in the sky above the waterfall. Nanbozho smiled at the funny little bluebirds and said: "You have made a rainbow!"

Nanbozho was so pleased that he left the rainbow permanently floating above his waterfall, its colors shimmering in the sunshine and the misting water. From that day to this, whenever Brother Sun shines his light on the rain or the mist, a beautiful rainbow forms. It is a reflection of the mighty rainbow that still stands over the waterfall at Nanbozho's house.

http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/mi6.htm


How Pangu Separates The Sky From The Earth:


According to the Chinese Legend, the sky and the earth were at first one blurred entity, like an egg. Pangu was born into it. The separation of the sky and the earth took eighteen thousand years; the Yang which was light and pure rose to become the sky, and the Yin which was heavy and murky sank to form the earth. Between them was Pangu, who went through nine changes every day, his wisdom greater than that of the sky and his ability greater than that of the earth. Every day the sky rose ten feet higher, the earth became ten feet thicker, and Pangu grew ten feet taller.

Another eighteen thousand years passed, and there was an extremely high sky, an extremely thick earth and an extremely tall Pangu. Then came the three Emperors. The Chinese Legend states that these numbers came into existence and evolved like this:- The numbers begin with one, become established as three, are completed at five, prosper at seven and end in nine. So the sky is ninety thousand li from the earth.

http://www.beifan.com/026topic/26legends.html

What is Isometric Pixel Art?

2day is d 1st day of clas afta 3 weeks hols. i guess al of us r stil in hols mood. thts y d class is extremely quiet now. everything seems 2 b very new 4 me. tis is d 1st time i write blog although most of my fren had been askin me 2 write 4 ages. finally, im writtin it coz lecturer asked us 2 register ourselves so tht dey can actually mark our work from here.=D eunice has chosen id and er has chosen ad. from 2day onwards, 3 of us hav 2 walk 2 toa alone. it is not as fun as laz time. i mis d moment we fooled n laughed around when we were walkin 2 or from coll.


here r some of d findings tht i had done regarding isometric pixel art...
pixel art is a form of art created on a computer in digital form. images r created on the pixel level. In digital imaging, a pixel is the smallest piece of information in an image. Pixel art is commonly divided in 2 subcategories: isometric n non-isometric. The isometric kind is drawn in a near-isometric dimetric projection. This is commonly seen in games 2 provide a 3D view without using any real 3D. Technically, an isometric angle would be of 30 degrees from the horizontal, but this is avoided since the pixels created by a line drawing algorithm would not follow a neat pattern. Non-isometric pixel art is any pixel art that does not fall in the isometric category, such as views from the top, side, front, bottom or perspective views. These r also called Planometric views. Isometric Pixel Art (IPA) is a modern form of digital art that only recently has been accepted as a new art form. The 2D representation of a 3D object is fascinating 2many people. This is possibly because of the simplicity n amount of small details that can fit in2 a single IPA piece. It doesn't need that much brain power 2 figure out, yet it is pleasing to the eye. IPA can be compared 2 cartoons in many ways, as people like to look (watch) n accept the 2D art form as it is very simplistic and easy to follow.

The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg n Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982. d concept, 4 eg in Richard Shoup's SuperPaint system in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.

Some traditional art forms, 4 eg cross-stitch, mosaic n beadwork, bear some similarity to pixel art by constructing pictures out of small colored units analogous 2 d pixels of modern digital computing. A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the mass games. Pixel art was very often used in older computer n video console games as well as portable devices, 4 instance mobile devices that still have low resolution n den require a skilful use of space n memory. Sometimes pixel art is used 4 advertising too. On the Microsoft WIndows desktop icons r raster images of various sizes, d smaller of which r not necessarily direct scaling of the larger ones n could be considered pixel art whereas on the GNOME n KDE desktops, icons r represented primarily by SVG images, but v hand-optimised, pixel art PNG4 smaller sizes such as 16x16 and 24x24. Another use of pixel art on modern desktop computers is favicons. Laz but not least, pixel art has been used in the virtual world Citypixel as well among handheld devices such as the Nintendo DS n cell phones.

urls of my findings:
http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/034/7/b/Pokemoon_Sprites_by_chatroomfreak.png
http://spriters-resource.com/other/other/other1/cavestory_enemies.png
http://www.magmabooks.com/images/spreads/3408_1.gif
http://www.gotoandplay.it/_articles/2004/10/tcgtipa/eboyexample.gif
http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/rendezvous.gif
http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/shop/ECB_PartsPoster_18s.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/SnakemanEXE/Iso9.gif
http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/shop/shop_tokyo_fullsize.png
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs20/f/2007/228/2/7/S1EE_intro_cutscene_screenshot_by_Cinossu.png
http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/034/7/b/Pokemoon_Sprites_by_chatroomfreak.png
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1304578/2/istockphoto_1304578_staff_office_people_vector.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp4pvfeBYO4ciVTwkJoP1xepTebctFFgBNIfWRl186HMMf-jWG6dR__j-xKQm3QhSvx-dYiO6uKw0Tev-mvUO1EB7FzgW1V_dEk1Ad8-bACgG3Jhm45M_dZ_V55BS_V8719O1xT7SFylnT/s1600-h/1.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art#Uses
http://www.19.5degs.com/element/836.php#e5

Belows r some of d eg of pixel art...






http://www.19.5degs.com/element/832.php#a1