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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Thangka Tuesday - Arhat Pinolda Bharadvaja
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:13:38 +0530
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John,
I did not he was in Bhuntar - I would have visited him when I was in the
area last year. Anyway I am planning a Manali-Leh drive in September, so I
will visit if I go ahead with it. The painting are beautiful!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:05 AM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:

> Pasvorn,
>
> Thanks for looking!
>
> The 18 Arhats are thangkas painted by Noedup Rongae, a Tibetan from a long
> line of traditional Tibetan painters.  I've known him for about 30 years 
> and
> have purchased an number of paintings over time including these.
>
> http://www.khandro.net/deities_arhats.htm has some background on the
> Arhats.
>
> The pop-ups are a mosaic of 9x9 64 pixel squares and are from a 100% crop
> as you observed.  It takes something like 8 hours of CPU time (2 clock 
> hours
> using 4 processors) to slice up the original image into 21,000+ squares, 81
> of which are pulled in upon a mouse click.
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
>
> Pasvorn Boonmark wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Interesting image.  Where was this taken, and do you know the origin of
>> the
>> work?
>>
>> The clickable is interesting.  It brought out a mosaic in fine detail.  I
>> assume that it is 100% crop of the original, correct?
>>
>> Thank you very much for sharing.
>>
>> -Pasvorn
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:47 PM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Great good greetings!
>>>
>>> http://thangkas.csd.net/pindola_bharadvaja.html
>>>
>>> The image is clickable to show detail
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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