More Oriental Rug Notes by Barry O'Connell

The Hockney Falco Stork Controvery

Buy oriental carpets
100% handmade area carpet and rugs from Tibet.
Modern and traditional design. Armenian too!
www.TufenkianCarpets.com Can't afford Tufenkian Carpets?
Visit the ONLY official Tufenkian carpet outlet.
Discontinued and one of kind rugs.
www.TufenkianOutlet.com Need a custom area rug?

If you can dream it, we can weave it.
Custom area rugs by Tufenkian

Based on work of British artist David Hockney and University of Arizona research scientist Charles Falco it is has been proposed that this work was created using optical lenses to project a scene onto the canvas. Dr. David G. Stork has demonstrated that the projection theory is improbable. http://www.diatrope.com/stork/FAQs.html

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:31:29 -0800
From: "David Stork"
To: JBOC@SpongoBongo.com
Subject: Posting on Hockney/Falco Stork controversy

Dear Mr. O'Donnell,

You may recall that I contacted you several years ago asking questions about symmetry in "Lotto carpets" as part of my research into David Hockney's claim that early Renaissance painters traced optically projected images, specifically in Lorenzo Lotto's Husband and Wife. I notice that on your notes page you link to Charles Falco's page. I would greatly appreciate it if you would link to my page ( http://www.diatrope.com/stork/FAQs.html ) as well, particularly as it was I -- not Falco -- who identified the issue of asymmetry in carpets as crucial to the debate, and contacted you for your helpful information, which has been used in a number of papers.
Good luck in your work.

--David Stork

David G. Stork

Chief Scientist Ricoh Innovations

Biography

Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Innovations. A graduate of MIT (BS) and the University of Maryland (PhD), he has been on the faculties of Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Clark University, Boston University and Stanford University. Dr. Stork holds 33 patents and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. His deepest interests are in adaptive pattern recognition by machines and humans and novel uses of the internet.

Persian Carpet Guide Home