Robert P. Taylor's : Fountain: Reflections of 3 Dancing Maidens
This May, 2000 attempt at using the computer to create an image of the entire sculpture by merging a trio of single maiden drawings, each drawn more or less from the east, did little more than reveal the difficulties implicit in such an approach. Despite the advantages of working with digitized drawings (see Digitization and drawing below), this potential way to overcome the artist's time constraints for drawing Fountian(see Rationale for focus and limitations) did not work. Because each single maid drawing reflected a slight difference in perspective, because each was slightly different in size, and so on, merger, despite careful image resizing and rotation, proved unsatisfactory. In the result, hands did not meet (different perspectives had produced different foreshortening in the component drawings), depth perception between the figures was undifferentiated, and so on.
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