Monday, November 26, 2018

What it seems to be.

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Yesterday's image was a photo of a 'seamless tile' stone texture. In other words, the image is manipulated so that it can be used in multiples of itself to create a continuous surface, without it appearing to be a repeating pattern. In this case the surface of cracked rock has a random feel without any sense of it being multiples of the same thing

However, the further away you are from the screen (and the smaller the tiles become ), the more obvious it is that you are seeing a repeating pattern. 

Conclusion?

There is a correlation here between standing back from the thing (vision? perspective? insight? years of experience?), and seeing the possibility of recognizing some sort of controlled pattern, even though others, less patient or maybe less skilled, may only see a random unstructured mix.

This is perhaps an explanation of what we do as wallers. We see the pattern of the wall, within what seems to be at first, just a random pile of stones.