Lake Pages

Water-reflection paintings — an early-web tradition on donnaleedunne.com.

This page began with a photo of a street painting I did a year or so earlier. I loved the depth of the painting and thought it might work underwater — almost does. The lake applet was designed by David Griffiths in the UK; I was a painter, both in computer and oils, and I tried several ways to use the applet with the illusionary world of painting and 3D computer imagery.

The original pages used a Java “Lake” applet; this archive recreates the effect with pure CSS. The five lake pages below continue the tradition.

Lake Coso — artwork in the lake pages — Lake Coso detail from a computer painting · 1999

Uppsala — artwork in the lake pages — Uppsala virtual sculpture · 1999

Cactus Lake — artwork in the lake pages — Cactus Lake painting by Ralph Dunne

Quiet Lake — artwork in the lake pages — Quiet Lake computer painting

Read about the applet’s creator and other artist sites on the artist links page, and visit street painting for the festival that started it.