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Title	Untitled
Date	1998-01-23
Method	Ink, pencil drawing, collage
Original Size	12.6 × 17.5 cm
Online Size	501 × 686 px

This image is my third attempt of drawing a green swimsuit; some more will follow. It is a college of randomly marbled papers, together with ink drawing (black and white ink) and pencils (hair, eyes and lips). The highlighted regions on the swimsuit are obtained by a combination of white ink and scratching off the green oil paint of the paper.

The image is based on a photo, and the photographer had the idea “well, why don’t we comb your hair in a more interesting way, like the girls on professional photos, like undergarment advertisments, instead of an ordinary parting in the middle?”. So the result looks pretty good, but also a little bit like an undergarment advertisment, especially together with that “look at my swimsuit”-pose. But who cares?

Title	„Die sieben Gesichter“
Title	“The Seven Faces”
Date	1998-02-03
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	875 × 397 px

This image surfaced some days later. The title does not result from the fact that I can’t count till six (allthough mathematicians are sometimes said of being unable to perform such trivial tasks as counting, I am quite aware that there is no bijective mapping between the set of faces on that picture and cardinal number seven), but I thought that “seven faces” sounds more mystically than “six faces”. It is again an attempt to use one basic model to express different things.

Since the resolution of the computer graphic of the original picture is a little bit poor, here is an enlarged detail:

This inspired me to re-do my drawing from 1998-01-23. This time, it is just a drawing, without any marbled papers:

Title	Untitled
Date	1998-02-04
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	12.6 × 17.5 cm
Online Size	532 × 739 px

I have also written a tale about a girl with a green swimsuit.

Title	Untitled
Date	1998-12-23
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	731 × 953 px

A combination of two recurrent themes: green swimsuits and chastity belts. Even this combination is a recurrence of an earlier image. I wrote a little text about it (German).

Title	„Amazone des Polyktet“
Title	“The Amazone of Polyktet”
Date	1999-07-15
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	729 × 914 px

Pheidias, Polyktet, Kresilas and Phradmon had a contest making a statue of a dying amazone warrior. The results have not survived, but we still have roman marble copies of the original bronze works, for example, the so-called kapitolinian amazone, and this is the amazone that is shown by my drawing.

Title	“green swimsuit”
Date	1999-07-18/19
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	758 × 1002 px

A green swimsuit, although it appears to be only black and white.

Title	Untitled
Date	1999-07-27 + 31
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	837 × 1156 px

A variation of the “waiting”-picture.

Title	„Bild mit grünem Badeanzug“
Title	“Image with Green Swimsuit”
Date	2000-12-03
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	800 × 1143 px

Another attempt within the green swimsuit saga. This inspired me to try to write two animations. The first one is based on a java applet I wrote myself:

Title	“Numbers”
Date	2000-12-03
Method	Software

You may also download nummernreiterin.zip (51 KB zipped, 56 KB unzipped); this files contains the necessairy class, the source code, the image with the digits, the image with the partly transparent girl, the html-file and the background image.

Title	“Waves”
Date	2000-12-03
Method	Software

This is another applet. It slides between three images: a hokusai image, an inverted image and the non-inverted image, all of them combined with the green swimsuit image.

As of 2000-12-17, I made two more animations based on the green swimsuit drawing. The first one, Lyapunov Swim Suit, uses an animated GIF lyapanim.gif with more than 1 MB (since it consists of 78 single frames), so it may take a few minutes to load. More information about Lyapunov fraktals are available on my Lyapunov Page.

If you happen to use a browser capable of displaying true color PNG files with full alpha channel support, you may instead prefer to look at the Lyapunov Swim Suit de luxe Page

A less byte-heavy animation is the Hue Shift Suit using some modest Java (with all files together less than 100 KB).

And on 2001-05-24, I made another Java Applet with full alpha support: The Alpha Numbers Applet.

Title	“Variation”
Date	2000-12-18
Method	Ink, pencil drawing, software
Original Size	798 × 1129 px
Online Size	798 × 1129 px

Another variation, with the colors of the background virtually filled within the machine. I should have had the contrast and saturation of the scanned drawing increased.

Title	„MonsterMädchen meets Holofernes den Täufer“
Title	“MonsterGirl meets Holoferenes the Baptist”
Date	2001-01-20
Method	Ink, pencil drawing
Original Size	21 × 30 cm
Online Size	406 × 566 px

A kind of female ghoul, based on “Waiting”, that appeared to me in a sudden vision.

Title	Untitled
Date	2001-01-22
Method	Ink, pencil drawing, collage
Original Size	29 × 14 cm
Online Size	1137 × 542 px

This consists of two pieces of decalcomanie (green and flesh-color), glued on black paper, with pencils, black and white ink. A rare landscape format version of the green swimsuit.

I collected 12 green swimsuit images and used them for a screen saver. See the Free Files Page for details.

Title	“Green Swimsuit Tiling”
Date	2001-02-09
Method	Software
Original Size	389 × 400 px
Online Size	Infinite

I used ten green swimsuit images for a seamles tile. Ressembles a crowded beach, I think; also available as Windows-Bitmap (if you want to use it as a desktop-wallpaper, for example).

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