Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >