// SLIDVID // By Jim Andrews, January 2010, version 1.1 // Customize these values. var gSeriesTitle="Kandinsky3" //This specifies the title of the series. var gLastFile=90 //This specifies how many image files there are. //The image file names must be 1, 2, ... gLastFile var gImagePrefix="images/" //Specifies the path to the images relative to the //location of index.htm. var gImageExtension=".jpg" //All the image files must have the same extension. var gDisplayPeriod=0 //How long each image is displayed after the //fade in is completed (in ms). var gFadeTime=6000 //How long to fade in/out each image (in ms) var gFadeOut=0 //A boolean that specifies whether the transition between //images is a fade in/out of two images or just a fade in //of one image. If the latter, then all the images should //be the same size so you don't get edges showing. var gNumberOfIcons=90 //The number of icons. Sometimes you have too many images //to display an icon for each one. In this case, you can //display icons like 1, 5, 10, ... gLastFile var gIconIncrement=1 //If gIconIncrement=3, for instance, then you have gNumberOfIcons //named 1, 3, 6, 9,... var gThumbColumns=10 //Number of columns in the thumbnails table var gCellSpacing=4 //Cellspacing property in the thumbnails table var gIconExtension=".gif" //All the icon files must have the same extension. //And they must be named 1, 2, ... gLastFile. var gIconPrefix="icons/" //Specifies the path to the folder that contains the icons. //Relative to the location of index.htm. var gBackgroundImage="11.jpg" //Specifies the image to use as background behind the thumbs. //Or "" for none. var gTitle1Link="intro/index.htm" //Link we go to when user clicks title1, which is top left when //the thumbnails are displayed. "" for no link. var gTitle1Target="_self" //Target window for the above link. var gTitle1Help="Click for an essay about this series" //Help text for the title1 mouseover var gTitle2Link="intro/index.htm" //Link we go to when user clicks title2, which is top left when //the slideshow is displayed. "" for no link. var gTitle2Target="_self" //Target window for the title2 link. var gTitle2Help="Click for an essay about this series" //Help text for the title2 mouseover. var gDisplayLogo=1 //A boolean that specifies whether the dbCinema logo should //be displayed. var gNotes=["THE PYRAMID", "Despite, or perhaps thanks to, the differences between them, there has never been", "a time when the arts approached each other more nearly than they do today,", "in this later phase of spiritual development.", "In each manifestation is the seed of a striving towards the abstract, the non-material.", "Consciously or unconsciously they are obeying Socrates’ command—Know thyself.", "Consciously or unconsciously artists are studying and proving their material,", "setting in the balance the spiritual value of those elements", "with which it is their several privilege to work. And the natural result of this striving", "is that the various arts are drawing together.", "They are finding in Music the best teacher.", "With few exceptions music has been for some centuries the art which", "has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena,", "but rather to the expression of the artist’s soul, in musical sound.", "A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic,", "in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music,", "the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks", "to apply the methods of music to his own art. And from this results that modern", "desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction,", "for repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in motion.", "This borrowing of method by one art from another can only be truly successful", "when the application of the borrowed methods is not superficial but fundamental.", "One art must learn first how another uses its methods, so that the methods may", "afterwards be applied to the borrower’s art from the beginning, and suitably. The", "artist must not forget that in him lies the power of true application of every method,", "but that that power must be developed. In manipulation of form music can achieve", "results which are beyond the reach of painting. On the other hand, painting is ahead", "of music in several particulars. Music, for example, has at its disposal duration of", "time, while painting can present to the spectator the whole content of its message", " at one moment. Music, which is outwardly unfettered by nature, needs no definite", " form for its expression. Painting today is almost exclusively concerned with the", "reproduction of natural forms and phenomena. Her business is now to test her", "strength and methods, to know herself as music has done for a long time,", "and then to use her powers to a truly artistic end.", "And so the arts are encroaching one upon another,", "and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art", "that is truly monumental. Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities", "of his art is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid", "which will some day reach to heaven.", "THE LANGUAGE OF FORM AND COLOUR", "Painting has two weapons at her disposal: colour and form.", "Form can stand alone as representing an object (either real or otherwise)", "or as a purely abstract limit to a space or a surface.", "Colour cannot stand alone; it cannot dispense with boundaries of some kind.", "A never-ending extent of red can only be seen in the mind;", "when the word red is heard, the colour is evoked without definite boundaries.", "If such are necessary they have deliberately to be imagined.", "But such red, as is seen by the mind and not by the eye,", "exercises at once a definite and an indefinite impression on the soul,", "and produces spiritual harmony. I say “indefinite,” because", "in itself it has no suggestion of warmth or cold,", "such attributes having to be imagined for it afterwards,", "as modifications of the original “redness.” I say “definite,”", "because the spiritual harmony exists without any need for", "such subsequent attributes of warmth or cold. An analogous case", "is the sound of a trumpet which one hears when the word “trumpet” is pronounced.", "This sound is audible to the soul, without the distinctive character of", "a trumpet heard in the open air or in a room, played alone or with other instruments,", "in the hands of a postilion, a huntsman, a soldier, or a professional musician.", "But when red is presented in a material form (as in painting) it must possess", "(1) some definite shade of the many shades of red that exist and", "(2) a limited surface, divided off from the other colours,", "which are undoubtedly there. The first of these conditions (the subjective) is", "affected by the second (the objective): the neighbouring colours affect the shade.", "This essential connection between colour and form brings us", "to the question of the influences of form on colour. Form alone,", "even though totally abstract and geometrical, has a power of inner suggestion.", "A triangle (without the accessory consideration of its being acute", "or obtuse-angled or equilateral) has a spiritual value of its own.", "In connection with other forms, this value may be somewhat modified,", "but remains in quality the same. The case is similar with a circle,", "a square, or any conceivable geometrical figure. As above, with the red,", "we have here a subjective substance in an objective shell.", "The mutual influence of form and colour now becomes clear.", "A yellow triangle, a blue circle, a green square, or a green triangle, a yellow circle,", "a blue square—all these are different and have different spiritual values.", "Since colours and forms are well-nigh innumerable, their combination and", "their influences are likewise unending. The material is inexhaustible.", "Form, in the narrow sense, is nothing but the separating line between", "surfaces of colour. That is its outer meaning.", "But it has also an inner meaning, of varying intensity, and, properly speaking,", "FORM IS THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF THIS INNER MEANING.", "To use once more the metaphor of the piano—the artist is the hand which,", "by playing on this or that key (i.e., form), affects the human soul in this or that way.", "SO IT IS EVIDENT THAT FORM-HARMONY MUST REST ONLY ON", "A CORRESPONDING VIBRATION OF THE HUMAN SOUL;", "AND THIS IS A SECOND GUIDING PRINCIPLE OF THE INNER NEED.", "From Kandinsky’s 1911 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art", " ", " "] //gNotes is an array of strings. one string for each of the //gLastFile images. gNotes[i] is displayed in the slideshow //when image i+1 is displayed. If you don't have notes to //display, don't worry about making gNotes long enough. //If it isn't long enough, the program pads it out.