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[jack]

Outside cineworld, there is a giant 3d snowman made from lights, as if giant christmas lights were molded into that shape. It looks amazingly 3d. But it's not clear why, since it really *is* 3d, as is everything else in the area.

I can only guess that the tessellation of lights shows the contours of the surface in a way very typical of computer-rendered or other 2d perspective drawings, and is instinctively compared to those, but totally wins because it's genuinely completely accurate.

Comments

[simont]

For some reason I expected your link to be to this...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:) Something like that.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I expected that, too. I was planning to find it and post it but you've saved me the hassle.

[d37373.livejournal.com]

That is more appropriate, and also quite cool and Tron-ish. I suspect it would be even better/stranger in real life.