topic Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object? in Libraries & objects

What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

Ignacio Azpiazu — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:45:48 GMT

What picture did the guy with the hat come from?

Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

Link — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:38:11 GMT

Seems nobody really knows.

Head of a Halberdier is a fragment of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. It is currently in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

If I hear anything from GS behind who chose it and why, I'll report back.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

Ignacio Azpiazu — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:44:15 GMT

Thank you very much! I had already lost hope.

It may be a coded message for Graphisoft software interface programmer initiates. According to Wikipedia,

Hieronymus Bosch, (latinized Jheronimus Bosch; his real name Jeroen van Aken) (c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) [1] was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings. Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man.[1] The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time.

Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

__archiben — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:51:14 GMT

Ignacio wrote:
It may be a coded message for Graphisoft software interface programmer initiates. According to Wikipedia,

could be . . . but i'm guessing it's royality free and looks 'old and quaint'.

~/archiben

(ooo! call me a cynic!)

Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

Rex Maximilian — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:27:41 GMT

If you can figure out why they chose that picture, you can try solving the next mystery as to why they chose ZZYZX as the overall height parameter in GDL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx%2C_California

Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

Barry Kelly — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:02:24 GMT

Rex wrote:
If you can figure out why they chose that picture, you can try solving the next mystery as to why they chose ZZYZX as the overall height parameter in GDL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx%2C_California

That has been explained in DNC's GDL Cookbook.
Apparently Lazlo Sparing from Graphisoft Hungary chose it because he wanted an unusal and difficult name.
He saw the name on a sign post in California and decided to use it.

Barry.

Re: What is the default picture in the 'Picture' object?

jclewis — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:12:17 GMT

Another piece of trivia:

Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch is the protagonist in a series of novels by Michael Connelly.

His namesake and his torturous paintings are reoccurring themes in the stories.