[Building Sakai] project/code name for Sakai 3.0
Ray Davis
ray at media.berkeley.edu
Tue Jul 7 12:39:18 PDT 2009
And his most often referenced painting even contains the number 3 in its
title: http://eeweems.com/goya/3rd_of_may.html
(It may be just as well that it wasn't used on the Sakai book cover,
though.)
Best,
Ray
On 7/7/09 3:21 PM, Michael Korcuska wrote:
> And then each of the pre-release versions could be named after a
> different one of his paintings?
> I like it.
>
> Michael
>
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 08:42, John Leasia wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>> a few of us were discussing what a code name for Sakai 3 could be.
>> Dave suggested 'e' because e starts with 2.7 and goes on forever. Then
>> we thought Goya, because (as I was taught in engin school), e is 3
>> squared divided by 10 plus twice the year Goya dies (2.718281828. Then
>> we googled Goya and found
>>
>> *Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes* (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)
>> was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the
>> Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter
>> to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and
>> subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint,
>> provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably
>> Manet and Picasso.^[1]
>>
>> which seemed to fit pretty well. Just a suggestion...
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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