Monolithic Knot V2
Image by jsbanks42
2nd test for an animation idea.
This time the mountains have been moved closer, the skylight fine tuned, the clouds thinned and the rendering cranked. The sun was also moved slightly lower to the horizon.
After break it will be time to address the foreground texture/plants.
This is a 24hr per frame render, so this quality isn't really an option for animation (at least in my universe).
Monolithic Knot Landscape
Image by jsbanks42
First pass of an idea of creating improbable sculptures in nature. The grass is very rudimentary as I was focusing on the quality of light. There are some hills off in the distance which are almost invisible..I need to move them up closer and add some foliage in the foreground.
Diagonal Color-1 - Seamless Pattern
Image by Patrick Hoesly
This seamless texture was illustrated by Patrick Hoesly, a Kansas City based illustrator specializing in architectural illustrations and graphic design. This texture is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. If you like this image, please mark it as a favorite and feel free to leave a comment. Thanks!
What is a Seamless Texture / Pattern?
A seamless texture is an special image, where one side of a image exactly matches the opposite side, so that the edges blend into each other when repeated. Seamless textures are used for desktop wallpaper, webpage backgrounds, video games, Photoshop fills and in 3D rendering programs.
How did you make it?
This texture was made using software specially designed to aid in seamless texture creation. Some of the programs I’ve use are Photoshop, Illustrator, Filter Forge, Genetica, Image Synth, Alien Skin, Topaz Labs, Imagelys, and a Wacom tablet.
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Cool Toys pics of the day: SAGE Commons
Image by rosefirerising
SAGE Commons:
www.sagecommons.org/
SAGE is the effort to collaboratively build an open source Scalable
Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) to do such exciting data
manipulations as "cyber-mashups and easily juxtapose information on
tiled display walls. SAGE provides a common environment to access,
stream and view data objects on tiled display walls of any size --
whether digital cinema animations, high-resolution images,
high-definition video-teleconferencing, presentation slides,
documents, spreadsheets or laptop screens." They even have a
gallery showing examples of this type of use in educational and
other environments around the world.
Here are some more snippets describing it in their words.
"SAGE is a graphics streaming architecture for supporting
collaborative scientific visualization environments with potentially
hundreds of megapixels of contiguous display resolution. In
collaborative scientific visualization, it is crucial to share
high-resolution imagery as well as high-definition video among groups
of collaborators at local or remote sites.
The network-centered architecture of SAGE allows collaborators to
simultaneously run various applications (such as 3D rendering, remote
desktop, video streams and 2D maps) on local or remote clusters, and
share them by streaming the pixels of each application over
ultra-high-speed networks to large tiled displays.
SAGE's streaming architecture is designed so that the output of
arbitrary M by N pixel rendering cluster nodes can be streamed to X by
Y pixel display screens, allowing user-definable layouts on the
display. The dynamic pixel routing capability of SAGE lets users
freely move and resize each application's imagery over tiled displays
in run-time, tightly synchronizing the multiple visualization streams
to form a single stream."
"Today’s scientists tackle issues of global priority, such as the
environment, geoscience, bioscience, disaster response, and the
physical nature of the universe, to name a few. Scientists need the
ability to view ultra-resolution images and/or create “cyber-mashups,”
or juxtapositions of information – a critical component of data
analysis – in order to gain more holistic views and insight regarding
complex issues, and make more informed observations and discoveries.
For example, geoscientists study aerial and satellite maps (e.g., 365K
x 365K pixels) and neurobiologists study electron microscope images
(e.g., 4K x 4K pixels).
In our vision of the future, as illustrated below, SAGE assumes that
displays will be cheap enough to “wallpaper” entire rooms, and that
the bandwidth needed to drive them will become even cheaper. Future
situation rooms and research laboratories will have walls made of
seamless ultra-high-resolution displays fed by data streamed over
optical networks from distantly located visualization clusters,
storage servers, and high-definition video cameras."
3D wallpaper with moving clouds!
Image by jeangenetramsey
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