Re: Hitchikers guide to Henna?
Posted by Anon (astron) on August 29, 1999 at 00:40:18:
In Reply to: Re: Hitchikers guide to Henna? posted by Natasha Papousek on August 24, 1999 at 20:37:31:
: I could really use "Don't Panic" hennaed in large friendly letters
: across my hands right now...crunch time at work. :(
Use fancy script, put one letter on each fingerback, surrounded by
some fancywork?
: : * Actually, I've been thinking of doing some astronomical
: : objects in henna.
: : Has anyone tried anything like this??
: I've done the Big Dipper and Orion -- big star-like stars that don't
: look anything like freckles are the way to go. I've also done
spiral
: galaxies and comets. Saturn has a nice, and very recogniseable,
: shape.
Great - thanks, I'm inspired to try some! Maybe the Lagoon Nebula.
: Now, if only I could figure out a way to render (in one
color)
: an image of a black hole devouring a star with the resulting
accretion
: disk, I'd probably have astronomers lining up for henna for miles...
Let me see what I can dig up. Is your hand steady enough to do the
distorted-grid cone-like thing that is often used to represent a black
hole? Or maybe try to copy the Hubble image that has what looks like
a flare but is taken as evidence of a black hole?
Gosh, this could be fun. I can see I'm going to have to go through
some websites and texts, and hope the Henna Image Page goes up soon.