I have a rough version of the first few pages.

Rerendering some stuff

I have had to redesign and rerender some stuff (the foliage text needs to be large to be worth the render time, so I am limiting it to the Drop Cap.
I have used so many different versions I am having trouble figuring out which one was the final and getting the lighting to match. THis is the Book Opening, which I am trying to match with the lighting for the first page (there is a paratext page that says "Tuba-Goose Chapter | One: Probably a Goose"), but I do not have the animation for the Paratext page yet.

T Strokes

I got the T curves and strokes
There is a problem with Maya. When I try to render with an image sequence it says it cannot find the images. It works fine for a single image, but not for a sequence.

Role of the Spectator as a Narrative Device

When the audience reads a book or watches a movie, the events are read from the perspective of an omniscient spectator (see Professor Nick Browne's The Spectator in the Text). In interactive media the viewer is a participant.
The game mentioned below plays with this role for narrative effect.

The Stanley Parable (meta Aesthetic game)

Post Structuralism Spreads to Math

Structuralism has trouble with subjectivity

Philosopher Alain Badiou argues that mathematics is a purely human construct, analogous to fiction.

Quotes (from memory)
math is "a fiction of intelligible consistency" (I found this in Ashton, 270)
"mathematics is a rigorous aesthetic" (I am having trouble finding this quote, bit I think it is in Briefings on Existence)

Fictionalism
Mathematical realists believe that math is objective, existing outside human knowledge. But the belief that mathematics beyond what humans will or could ever discover is a faith (counter to science).


Ashton, Paul, Adam Bartlett, and Justin Clemens. The Praxis of Alain Badiou. Melbourne: Re.press, 2006. Internet resource.
Badiou, Alain, and Norman Madarasz. Briefings on Existence: A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Print.

Platomism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism

Strokes

I have started adding strokes to the curves

It is incredibly time consuming to get all the foliage to bloom properly and sill have the letters readable. I tried a few methods over the summer, and though the node editor was a bit quicker for copying and pasting several vines onto curves, they still need individual manipulation to make the letters clear.

Regretfully, I don't see any way to do all the letters by the deadline. So I am just going to slap together a drop cap, and leave the letters as normal text for the review.

It does not look nearly as good as the full test, but there is no way I can complete all of it by the middle of July.

It was my favorite part, but I think it will save me about a month

Reformatting for the Drop Cap and Foliage

I have made maps for all the text in Word, and now I am aligning the curves with the new letters. The process is very time consuming, but the foliage text is one of my favorite aesthetic pieces.

The lettering is organized in Microsoft Word

Then I adjust the curves to rest on the page.

The curves have to be very close to the page, or the foliage growing out of the curves will be floating above the paper.

I have all the curves for the first page on the paper