> Another characteristic feature of Okamoto’s work is the large, stylised eye, incarnated by his “alien named PAIRA” of 1956, which inspired the eye on the Sheikah slate, the player’s tool for altering the environment and interacting with gameplay elements (Fig. 5).
Little nitpick: it's not exactly right to say the design on the Sheikah slate was inspired by this artwork, the eye symbol has long been established as Sheikah, first appearing in 1998 in Ocarina of Time. Though it didn't always have the bright blue color, the shape is basically unchanged.
The eye goes further back than that; the top comment on https://www.reddit.com/r/zeldaconspiracies/comments/c5e8h1/a... has a link to the Link to the Past illustration of Agahnim and the similar eye symbol on his robes. The poster makes the case that they’re not connected lore-wise (I mean, it’s on r/zeldaconspiracies so I imagine there’s a healthy dose of reading a little too much into everything), but in my opinion at least the similarity is strong enough to make a case for an inspiration drawn from the same source that far back.
> Another characteristic feature of Okamoto’s work is the large, stylised eye, incarnated by his “alien named PAIRA” of 1956, which inspired the eye on the Sheikah slate, the player’s tool for altering the environment and interacting with gameplay elements (Fig. 5).
Little nitpick: it's not exactly right to say the design on the Sheikah slate was inspired by this artwork, the eye symbol has long been established as Sheikah, first appearing in 1998 in Ocarina of Time. Though it didn't always have the bright blue color, the shape is basically unchanged.
The eye goes further back than that; the top comment on https://www.reddit.com/r/zeldaconspiracies/comments/c5e8h1/a... has a link to the Link to the Past illustration of Agahnim and the similar eye symbol on his robes. The poster makes the case that they’re not connected lore-wise (I mean, it’s on r/zeldaconspiracies so I imagine there’s a healthy dose of reading a little too much into everything), but in my opinion at least the similarity is strong enough to make a case for an inspiration drawn from the same source that far back.