A Round Town

This is the painting process of the Termesphere called A ROUND TOWN painted by Dick Termes for the Convention Center in Sioux Falls SD. It takes several months to complete an entire sphere and now here is the entire process in just over 3 minutes. Special thanks to Avera McKennan Hospital and Lang Termes.

Music:
To Life by Lang Termes - http://www.langtermes.com

For more information about Dick Termes or his Termespheres visit http://www.termepheres.com.

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[spinelman]

To be the only one in the world to do what you do and do it so well, it is an honor to be your friend. I look forward to owning my Termesphere. Great video, congratulations to Sioux Falls!

Scott Bohall

AZ

[AliceRuther]

A very gifted artist - and a dear friend!!

Thanks, Dick for sharing your talents with the world!!

[TheKenyonGee]

Dick, This video is awesome. I remember working at Avera McKennan when I first saw it. I was privileged and honored you chose my name suggestion as the winning name for this amazing piece of work! Hope you are well. Love your work! - Kenyon

[starw0lf]

wow that is so awesome!

[stonelenny]

"The only", "the first", "the best"... How people kwnow about everything, everybody, everwhere, everytime!!! I'm shure that Thermes itself don't think that way. Even don't knowing him personally. Knowledge comes from observation, and not from an isolated, selfish attitude or from direct sprout of an "natural gift" as so many envy ones (uncosciously of course) insist to affirm.

[spinelman]

Fantastic video, what an exciting view of your unique and genius ability. I look forward to owning my termesphere.

Scott Bohall

AZ

[asiostudio]

To continue...What would be different however is, your image would be backwards when viewed from the outside. I think with your kind of logic but I do it all from the outside and it isn't backwards when I am done...D.Termes..

[asiostudio]

You are correct in your thinking, Pashford. Spinning in a circle and seeing everything above, below and around you is the effect of the Termesphere. Copying what you see on a transparent hemisphere would give you 180 degrees of your visual world. Doing the same with the other 180 behind you and then joining these two would give you a total painting.

[asiostudio]

You are correct in your thinking, Pashford. Spinning in a circle and seeing everything above, below and around you is the effect of the Termesphere. Copying what you see on a transparent hemisphere would give you 180 degrees of your visual world. Doing the same with the other 180 behind you and then joining these two would give you a total painting.

[Pashford]

...reply contd...

If you stood close enough to the termesphere, without being able to see anything other than it, then spin it, it would give the illusion that you are tunring around 360 degree looking at the inside of the cathedral? (It would probably make you feel dizzy too)

Am I right in saying this, that painting in 6 point perspective (i.e onto the ball) it would look like a camera or person rotating around a fixed spot? Essentially both paintings on both hemispheres should line up?

[Pashford]

If you stood in the middle of a cathedral (for example) and painted what you see in all 180 degrees of what your head can see onto the front hemisphere of the large ball, then tunr around and paint what you see behind you in all 18o degrees of your head, onto the other hemisphere of the ball, and join them up, technically speaking, if you then spun the termesphere ball, it would look like a camera turning around 360 degrees...am I right?