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« on: April 01, 2011, 08:11:48 am »
I don't mind the perfectness of the bricks at all, it's just the way pixels become so .. physical. when a contrast between two surfaces is expressed as the collission between two color spaces the border between then is essentially 0 pixels, which I really like. when you put an outline anywhere suddenly the distance between two elements (in this case, bricks) is now 1 pixel. As zoomed out as this is that's like 20-30 cms of space between each brick. The effect is lessened by the low contrast of the brick color, though.
But by reducing the contrast and definition in some spots you get an unfocused effect that works well with syncronizing the brain in interpreting this the same way that it does a real brick wall viewed from afar. I think.
I just generally like breaking up outlines on big textured surfaces as to let the brain read more of the big shapes and read small details only where they matter. ' U ' ... at least that's my theory of it