Here’s the deal: I’m not interested in the maths^
themselves, but rather the visual beauty that
issues from them, in its purest form. There Ansel
Adams and I are polar opposites. He said: “the
negative is the score and the [photographic dark-
room] print is the performance”. I’ve always been
a purist: The code is the score and the execution
is the performance, but ‘thou shalt not mess with
the resulting bitmap’. You see, to digress into a
bit of pointy-headedness again, the unaltered
bitmap that issues from execution of the
rendering code represents precisely a theorem
proved in a formal system. So my artworks are
mathematical theorems. That’s so whacked-out I
love it! Too weird. And too beautiful, in its
strange abstraction, to mess with or sully via
post-processing.
But for MojoWorld users, hey, do whatever you
like to get the results you want! Interoperability
is a keyword: we know that MojoWorld is just
another tool in the software toolbox of the digital
artist. [MojoWorld 3.1 later enabled Poser 6 prop
import, Ed.]. As such, it must interoperate
smoothly with those other tools. Even if it is a
universe unto itself!
Simultaneously, for the casual user of the
MojoWorld Transporter [later called the Viewer],
we hope you find fascination in these worlds
exactly as you find them, without further
modification or enhancement outside of
MojoWorld. That raw and elegant beauty always
been good enough for me. And one wild thing is
for sure: No matter how beautiful a vista or detail
you find in any MojoWorld, there’s probably a
better one somewhere else on the planet.
Probably a whole bunch more...
Now if that’s not adventure calling, I don’t know
what is!
Picture: MoodyBlue’s MojoWorld stock,
available at http://www.deviantart.com/
moodyblue. MoodyBlue has 36 x free
desert ‘stock’ pictures, kindly given away
for you to re-use under Creative Commons
licences. Don’t forget to credit him!The interface for MojoWorld 3’s
Planet Wizard module — a quick easy
way to rapidly create new planets.