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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.

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yes, I think I was, and I can (though I don't know if dave can). It looks familiar, and I think it *is* the same one. At any rate, it looks exactly the same, and the buildings behind could be the ?hotel? that's there. It's hard to see on the picture, the scarf and head have the same look (to my eye) which make it such a great christmas image, but the body did too in real life.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is the same one.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thanks.