• AeronMelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    7 months ago

    England: Seas and bays and lochs. The worst waves come from the wind and rain. (Picture above)

    Japan: THE MOTHERFUCKING PACIFIC OCEAN!!

  • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    Pictures 2 and 3: are we sure that’s to depict waves? To me it looks like the (stylised, artistic depiction of) backsplash when rain hits a water surface.

    Pictures 1 and 4: yeah, that’s kinda how waves look like pictured in a medievalist art style. You gotta remember that naturalism (i.e. the realistic approach to picture things) is not beginning before the renaissance. But besides the regularities in shape and orientation, this looks pretty well like windswept waves.

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      Yeah sometimes we forget that art movements/styles existed intentionally well before the 19th century lol.

      Short form symbolism is part of media, and while some of that understood context may be lost to time it doesn’t erase it entirely. They were just as nuanced, goofy and human as we are.

  • arandomthought@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    There are some amazing oil paintings of waves where you can see the light scatter below the surface of the water (subsurface scattering for my CGI nerds) and I always found it so amazing that you could do that “by hand”. These waves here are… Not that.

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    For me, at least, the top two pictures have an optical illusion. When I first look at them, I actually see a bunch of cylinders (or maybe fish scales?) instead of waves. However, once I look more carefully, the waves appear, and I can’t see the cylinders until I look away for a while.

    This seems so unlikely that I even double-checked that the picture was a jpg and not a gif.