Colophon | Blog | 1976design.com
Colophon | Blog | 1976design.comI'll quote this guy's site here:
The image displayed across the top of the site (for those using CSS compliant browsers) is a 1600 pixel-wide panoramic view from the top of my parents’ house, in Dorset. The scene was originally captured as a series of photographs, before being manually traced in Xara X and Photoshop 7 to produce the cartoony version you (hopefully) see here.
There are ninety versions of this panorama, each depicting the same scene under a different weather condition, time of day, and (at night) phase of the moon.
Thanks to an XML feed from weather.com, and some PHP jiggery pokery, the end result is a fairly accurate representation of what my parents see when they look out of their upstairs windows.
The more you know…
The position and distribution of the sheep are copied exactly from the photographs: some face left, some right, some forwards, some away, some are standing up, and some are lying down.
The sheep alternate their positions every other day, and also respond to their environment, sheltering when necessary, and huddling together at night to sleep.
The textures on the tiled roof, and on the dutch barn are taken from the photographs and superimposed onto the cartoons.
The fog and darkness are built up using ten semi-transparent layers, depth-positioned for realism.
The stars are positioned in various signs of the Zodiac, I can’t recall which ones, but Leo (mine) is in there somewhere.
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