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Published: 2013-02-08 01:20:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 24912; Favourites: 1003; Downloads: 1186
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This is a sequel to "Awake": arthurblue.deviantart.com/art/…The whole series, in "order" (well, my order...
you can have your own order) :First Dream: arthurblue.deviantart.com/art/…
Wake up: arthurblue.deviantart.com/art/…
Awake: arthurblue.deviantart.com/art/…
and now this one.
Mostly built in Vue, rendered in Vue.
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There are so many things about this that I like and notice that I don't really know where to begin. I don't claim this is the best of your photos like this but it has it's own story to tell.
I love how the ubiquitous red wiring/fine piping is reversed in this one to be red grooves that pattern themselves respectfully throughout the geometry of this structure.
I love how the floors take me back and remind me of the Juraian temple floors in the Tenchi series as this makes me think of a lot of similar Animes.
The one thing I will playfully point out as a manifestation of my imaginative interpretation of this is that I don't trust that the levitationary mechanism suspending the semicircles at the entrance is the same suspending the spiraled steps. This place seems more than advanced enough to provide a multitude of mechanisms for maintaining vertical integrity.
You have betrayed the randomly geometrical pattern of the red grooves with a random series of grooves in the floor; consigning the original red grooves into a symmetrical, mirrored pattern, loosely coating the wall. The floor has such a random pattern that it's powerful enough to break up any symmetrical order between any two ladder wells in the floor. The square wells in the floor, I have little doubt are actually not filled with water as a conventional well would be but rather fill their use with a spiraling ladder, descending out of sight.
You retain a ghostlike quality to this illustration by reflecting the circular grooves in a mixture of pure reflection and circular light beams on the floor. You even make the floor grooves or crevices red rimmed in a confusing parody of what would be random red grooves, analogous to the wall.
Even though the woman for scale restrains the wild nature of speculation that I would indulge in, I like how the giant grooves in the floor are wide enough for an adventurous person to slip through and swim underwater at whatever point they want. It is even afforded by the architecture for them to go deeper than the water by using the stairs that make themselves at home. I understand that the obvious reason for the restrained width of the grooves is so that a person can comfortably straddle their width in a single step.
Even though I can't think of a reason to better fit it in, one thing I would change is the fact that the place where the floor meets the wall is too abrupt, with no transitional boarder perhaps seasoned by more red groves.
This place is a true swimming sanctuary with it's place on the water and it's geometrically perforated design.
I love your style of turning the 'door' into a gravitationally defiant artform as well as a topologically indifferent centerpiece. You not only make the two semi-circles levitate with greater allegiance to it's neighboring circles but in nested fashion you make the middle circle actually touch the bottom yet abruptly end at the bottom. The outermost ring completely dissolves it's form into the floor before stopping in a flat edge. It probably would be more fun if the three rings where higher up, forcing there to be 6 levitating 'crescents' that would indulge in a need for explanation but this is an anthrocentric doorway.
You even managed to make the place the woman is standing on the edge into an ultimately symmetrical position. She is not exactly in the middle yet between the right edge and the right edge of the terminal groove she is shifted to the left. She is mysteriously placed just perfectly.
Another thing I have to mention about the light beams shining through the wall, etched in the floor, is they move outward from the center from an almost complete circle out of view to smoothly becoming more straight with each outward layer until they are completely straight at the outer edge. The pattern at which they straighten or curve, inward or outward, is smooth enough that you would not know they are the result of light being extruded through a mixture of curved and straight grooves in the wall. This reminds me of a light beam diagram of a black hole.
This one surpasses many of your other pieces because your signature is embedded in the floor instead of on the 'glass' of any hypothetical camera this was supposed to have been taken by.
Not that it would do much good but I am glad that you chose not the include any distant objects over that hill.
There are obviously many free surfaces I could request that a symbol can be put on but this picture actually seems appropriate without any obvious markings. I love how the red grooves, save one for each matching side, seem to continue over the obvious cracks in the wall, terminating on one side, them continuing where they left off on the other side, even though it is evident that the red grooves actually wrap around the edges to the other side, causing redundant red groove patterns to face each other in the free cross section of the wall.
I am of 1/3 a mind to think the woman here is human and 2/3 a mind to think she is a very humanlike alien. Either way if this society is anywhere near humanlike in it's pace of advancement, I would say this is almost 10,000 years into the future.
Even the vantage point of the picture is almost as if it is being captured by someone levitating.
Even though this is dominated by light architecture, there is no discernible sun in sight, which is probably for the better anyway.
The lack of a ceiling leaves open a fun area of speculation of what the design would be. The color scheme seems satisfactory or at least leaves the viewer unable to recommend an alternate chromatography. Conceivably, levitating rails analogous to the red piping of other artworks could be placed, tracing the spiraling stairs but there is not enough of a vacuum to warrant that demand. Overall this is my favorite I have critiqued as the most inviting to write a story about.
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Thank you for yet another deeply insightful critique. Your observational and analytical skills are remarkable.
Just two short comments from my side:
I entirely agree with you on "the place where the floor meets the wall is too abrupt, with no transitional border". That also disturbed me, tried to fix it in several ways but didn't find anything that I really liked.
I also totally agree with another change you proposed: "It probably would be more fun if the three rings where higher up, forcing there to be 6 levitating 'crescents'". I just tried now to do a quick render like that and it really works. The only thing I would have to fix (for compositional reasons) would be the too near proximity to the image border of the resulting structure but other than that, it would look great.
Here's a quick test render (very small and low quality for time reasons).
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43…
Thanks again!
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You know it is weird I checked a while ago and found that you had accepted by critique "27 minutes ago" and I wondered for some reason if you were making a comment that taken a very long time. Now I know my perception was right, I check this again now that you have accepted by critique "1 hour, 36 minutes ago" and you made a comment "59 minutes ago". If I had just checked alittle while longer I would have gotten both a comment and an accept notification but for some reason I knew you were writing a comment.
Just a random trivia.
You could work on it and you could post that as an alternate picture but otherwise I like this picture the way it is.
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amo esta imagem !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am in love with the places you create, they are beautiful~
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100% amazing, love landscapes like this well done sir
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Hi,
as always a great render
Can you give me a tip how those redline material is done ?
Cheers
Ralf
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Hi!
I just saw you made the same question on two images.
Here, this is the wall in front: [link]
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Excellent fantastic work !!
It reminds me the film 'Cube' a bit.
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YES! another one! these are seriously so amazing and inspirational! They make me want to create a world of my own!!!
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Another great one. Such unusual spaces and new design ideas.
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Muito Bom.
Ja fiz meu primeiro render no VUE e estou terminando o segundo, o software é maravilhoso. Segui alguns tutoriais que tu me endicou.
Acho que funcionou.
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Very cool. I love the way the stairs go down into the floor.
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The sense of space is breathtaking
The contrast of inside and outside is striking.
To me, the detail of the inside architecture is what rises to an extraordinary level.
Congratulations on this artistic vision and creative piece!
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This piece is so well done, it makes me want to go and explore this place....bravo 
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