04-29-2007, 12:32 AM
Quote:MeinPanzer:1pdmtm2f Wrote:It could be painted, but how do you explain the same blue spearheads? In the Aghios Athanasios paintings, a man is also shown carrying a pale of some kind which is likewise completely blue. I highly doubt that of spearheads would be painted.It's the metal reflecting the sky.
Look at my avatar - the seg is grey metal. Looks blue though, because it's reflecting the sky. I did another 3D illustration with a seg, and it looks green and blue, because it's reflecting the grass and the sky. If the setting was in a desert the seg would look beige and blue. Where the seg reflects the interior of the scutum it's red.
So you do support the idea that blue represents iron in these paintings?
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian