Initial content 10 textiles

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I think the site should have at least 10 textiles published of varying difficulty before launching.

• [x] The Ugly
• [x] Doctor Knowall
• [x] Trial by Geometry
• [x] Soap Bubbles
• [x] Life Time
• [x] Rules of the Road
• ~(7)~
• [x] Starface
• [x] Little Crowd
• [x] Absurd A to D

Bonus textiles

• [x] If The Book Doesn’t Sell

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4: The background is covered in different patterns (polka dots, plaid, horizontal lines, etc), where different patterns correspond to shapes.

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5: The background is covered in lots of drawn things, and the shapes fall between them. Each shape is made up of multiple things around it.

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6: The background text describes different scenarios that textiles can follow (overlap, separate, words versus pictures, correlation, pun, etc).

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7: the background is a scene without outlines, and the shapes are the outlines.

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8: The background shows an empty region with no divisions inside which the shapes need to fit without overlapping.

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9: Shapes denote things that need to be found, like "I spy" or "Where's Waldo", and need to be placed over those things.

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4: I selected a painting whose scene I traced and converted into the patterned text layer. Currently working on the shapes layer.

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4: Soap Bubbles is now mostly complete and published as an admin release. It could use a description fragment before public release.

EDIT: Soap Bubbles is now complete and available under public release.

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10: Selected page 1 from Absurd ABC by Walter Crane as content for the background layer. Currently tracing the text, and will create shapes for the silhouettes next.

EDIT: Absurd ABC is now complete and available.

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8: Starface is Tony Montana’s face inside a broken star, and is complete and available.

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11: If The Book Doesn’t Sell is the middle verses taken from Ritt Momney’s song “(If) The Book Doesn’t Sell”, used for the text layer, placed inside of larger block-lettered text in the shapes layer. Finished designing the shapes and text last night, am now putting the metadata and SQL together for the database.

EDIT: If The Book Doesn’t Sell is now complete and available.

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6: The background text describes different scenarios that textiles can follow (overlap, separate, words versus pictures, correlation, pun, etc).

6: Rules of the Road will have an outdoor scene with some roads, signs, and scenery to serve as an environment for the different textile scenarios illustrated:

• Shapes might overlap = one car passing another
• The background could label the foreground with text, like a roadsign
• The background could fill in the foreground = road missing outline
• A single message could carry across multiple shapes = two billboards, one message
• There are opportunities for advertising within a textile = wall-mounted billboard
• Some foreground shapes use negative space = missing bird on powerline
• Some shape-content relationships are more obvious than others = “I am the tree canopy. I am the tree trunk. I didn’t fall far from the tree"

EDIT 1: finished drawing the text and shape layers physically, will digitize and prep for database soon.

EDIT 2: Rules of the Road is complete and public!

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9: Shapes denote things that need to be found, like "I spy" or "Where's Waldo", and need to be placed over those things.

Little Crowd is complete and available. It's a crowd if people like those in a where's Waldo (Wally) puzzle, but there are many items to find.

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5: The background is covered in lots of drawn things, and the shapes fall between them. Each shape is made up of multiple things around it.

Life Time shows the time 12:42 (or 0:42) on an analog clock face. There are a bunch of doodles to obscure it, but four cardinal numbers and the hands on the clock are made up of negative space. I finished designing the text and shapes, and am now creating the SQL puzzles insert, description works insert, fragments insert, and contributions insert.

EDIT: Life Time is now complete and available!