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RRodgers wrote:
I would like to know what you, dear reader, think about the clouds, since the original purpose was to write code that generates realistic-looking clouds.

These don't look all that cloudy to me. Particularly at the cloud-to-sky edges they seem more like something viscous held together by surface tension.

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These don't look all that cloudy to me. Particularly at the cloud-to-sky edges they seem more like something viscous held together by surface tension.

That may be an artifact of the lower colour resolution, it does that to edges. But hey, you have just discovered a hint as to what is going on with the picture.

Maybe this is too difficult, since there is no way anybody could just guess it (especially if they try to look at the image). Here are a few hints, but my hopes aren't high:
- Try looking deeper.
- A very large thing is hidden somewhere.
- Do not try to use your eyes. (It will only make them hurt.)

With that said, I still feel like the average user will be left without hopes of discovering anything. I will post the solution soon anyway.

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My Second Christmas picture

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And my first christmas picture

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RRodgers wrote:
That may be an artifact of the lower colour resolution, it does that to edges.

Errr... PNG doesn't support any color subsampling. And even with JPG you should have an option to turn it off...

But hey, you have just discovered a hint as to what is going on with the picture.

Steganography much lately?

np: Miwon - Matchbox (A To B)

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Errr... PNG doesn't support any color subsampling. And even with JPG you should have an option to turn it off...

Yes, of course, it's not the format's fault...

Steganography much lately?

Briareos is on fire. But I'll wait to see if someone can retrieve that which is hidden as well.

Anyway, here are some fractals I generated (using my own programs, of course ). (Some of them may appear a bit dark, though.)
http://rrodgers.110mb.com/stuffies/pics/neofrac.zip (477KB)

(My web server is experiencing a bit of down time at this moment, but the link should work later on.)
Edit: Web server back up. ...for now.

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My drawing of a B. Kliban cat.

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Something's wrong with the soundhole in that guitar, but other than that's it's good.

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NiroZ wrote:
Something's wrong with the soundhole in that guitar, but other than that's it's good.

Thanks...I noticed that, too. Its head is a little misshapen as well, but then again it is only a cartoon.

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Rejoice! My web server is back online! Do not hesitate to check out the nice fractals I made (link in my previous post). Unless, of course, hesitation is your kind of thing. In which case it's fine.

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Very nice, RRodgers. A +1 to you.

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A composite image of the sky at varying times and places, heavily distorted with GIMP.

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I love the effect with the sun.

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Here is another type of fractal I made recently:
http://rrodgers.110mb.com/stuffies/pics/lacefrac.zip (267KB)

Should I reveal the secret behind my previous sky image?

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Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Hmm... nothing. Or maybe I am too impatient?

Anyway, I have attached an enlarged version of Lamkin's eye. I was writing an algorithm for Voronoi-style stained-glass effects. So I tried it on the eye, and I thought it looked rather nice. My main idea was to use this for special effects (as I said), but it also seems to work well for image enlargement (if you take away the noise). I could just add a 4th/8th degree polynomial filter and we'll have a fully anti-aliased stain-glass Eye.

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RRodgers wrote:
Or maybe I am too impatient?

I think it's more that we're too indifferent.

Personally I'm waiting for your reaction to Briareos' guess that you sacrificed those mysteriously missing bits of colour depth to steganography.

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Znirk, you- ... You win. OK, Mr Apathy, check this out:
http://rrodgers.110mb.com/stuffies/files/skysol.zip (949KB)
(If anyone can be bothered to download this, I would like to
know whether they think the 'hidden' image looks cool.)

Try this link to see some hand-drawn pictures I made today.
(Feel free to read the rest of my blog as well.)

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Nuntar wrote:
For the last term I've been taking a brief series of evening classes on "Fantasy Art and Illustration". Well, I spend enough of my time writing fantasy, so I thought, why not?

Care to provide a sample of your writing some time? I too am a huge fantasy nerd

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Darn evil unfinished doodles.

[I'll try to finish this...]

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So it's a monster eating a dragon...Wait, no, it's a dragon hugging a satellite with eyes...Wait, no, it's a disembodied eye eating a dragon skullcap with wings...Wait, no, it's three faces eating each other...Wait, no, it's a satellite shaped like a skull smashing the dragon monster wing...Wait, no, it's a fox spirit staring at a wing eating the monster's pet dragon...Wait, no, it's a woman's pet monster licking the dragon skull's pet dragon...Wait, no, it's a fox skull killing the fox's woman observer of the pet dragon monster skull...Wait, no, it's a woman's pet skull eating the fox who is watching the winged monster sabotage the dragon...Wait, no, it's a WHAAA???

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My drawing of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

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That's a nice drawing Lamkin, especially the head is good IMO.

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I like the signature.

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eb0ny wrote:
I see. The fact that lessons aren't getting more interesting doesn't help either. Paper icosahedron (the shape made of twenty triangles):

Heh. That reminds me: we got a fair amount of snow recently and I got to play with it. Here's a (nearly) icosahedral virus.


It was really hard getting the base snowball even remotely spherical; that's why it is kind of distorted!

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Today was the last day of school so we didn't have to do any work, I drew a portrait of my friend Tyler.
Sorry, there is no way to convert it.


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I made this for a different site, but I can post it here.
Note: To get this, you need UT2004, UT2004RPG, and DruidsRPG. Therefore, this comic won't apply to the vast majority of people on this forum. Still, it's worth a shot.


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And the original SVG.

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Being the bored man I am, I assembled a new smiley out of some of the ones we have here. It's nowhere near perfect, so you suggest improvements, and I'll completely ignore them.

Smiley


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Is that the new manic-depressive smiley?