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project for Club 52 - Polyclaykunst.de - still experimenting with folding: I've made some (more or less) regular folds in one direction and some irregular small ones in the other ...
View of the Lake Yaxhá and the surrounding rainforest from the top of Temple 216 at the Yaxhá Maya archaeological site. Plaza B which is part of the East Acropolis can be seen at the base of the pyramid. At its far end is the Palacio Oeste (West Palace; Structure 218).
Yaxhá was a Maya ceremonial center and city in the northeast of the Petén Basin region. The city was located on a ridge overlooking Lake Yaxha, approximately 18 miles (30 km) southeast of Tikal. Yaxha was the third-largest city in the region and experienced its maximum power during the Early Classic period (250–600 CE); its power was later eclipsed by neighboring Naranjo. The relative lack of inscribed monuments found at Yaxhá has made tracking its history difficult.
The abandoned and deserted Saladi Beach Hotel in Peloponnese, Greece.
It was a hotel for nudists, closed under pressure of the church. The structure is deteriorating and crumbling into ruins. Now this place sits in decay.
Saladi Beach (sometimes spelled Salanti Beach) is located in a beautiful wide valley. There is a large and very clean pebble beach. But especially exciting is this huge abandoned complex.
Although the 8-story building complex blights the otherwise beautiful valley, the sprawling area, abandoned to decay since the mid-1980s, also offers many opportunities for exciting discovery tours up to the roof, from where you have a spectacular view of the surrounding area.
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8aT74wQD0w
Paralia Salanti, Greece
Linemen prepare to pull an underground transmission cable through conduit at a transition structure.
London Eye, seen from Westminster Bridge, Westminster, London
Some background information:
The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames. The entire structure is 135 metres (443 feet) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 metres (394 feet).
It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people annually. When erected in 1999 it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, until surpassed first by the 160 m (520 feet) Star of Nanchang in 2006 and then the 165 m (541 feet) Singapore Flyer in 2008.
Supported by an A-frame on one side only, unlike the taller Nanchang and Singapore wheels, the Eye is described by its operators as "the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel". It offered the highest public viewing point in the city until it was superseded by the 245-metre (804 feet) observation deck on the 72nd floor of The Shard, a skyscraper in the City of London, which opened to the public on 1st February 2013.
The London Eye or Millennium Wheel was officially called the British Airways London Eye and then the Merlin Entertainments London Eye. Since 20 January 2011, its official name is the EDF Energy London Eye, following a three-year sponsorship deal. It adjoins the western end of Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank of the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge.
The wheel's 32 sealed and air-conditioned ovoidal passenger capsules are attached to the external circumference of the wheel and rotated by electric motors. Each of the 11-ton capsules represents one of the London Boroughs and holds up to 25 people, who are free to walk around inside the capsule, though seating is provided.
The wheel rotates at 26 cm (10 inch) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.6 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes. It does not usually stop to take on passengers; the rotation rate is slow enough to allow passengers to walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level. It is, however, stopped to allow disabled or elderly passengers time to embark and disembark safely.
The London Eye was formally opened by the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on 31st December 1999, although it was not opened to the public until 9th March 2000 because of technical problems. Since its opening it has become a major landmark cattycorner the Palace of Westminster.
This is the Mesquite High School "L Building". This section was one of the original structures of the MHS. Sadly, It was demolished around April of 2017 to make way for a new structure.
► "Stormy the Skeeter" is the school mascot for the school's various athletic teams (all known with some variant of the word "Skeeter") and the school's colors are Maroon and White. In the March 1901, the Mesquite Independent School District was incorporated at the behest of the citizens of Mesquite Texas to serve the primary and secondary educational needs of the city. The first school was established at the current site of MHS in 1902 with an enrollment of approximately 200 students. A new high school was built on the property in June 1923. MHS was officially recognized as an accredited high school in June 1924 by the Texas State Department of Education, thus allowing its students to attend Texas colleges and universities without having to take remedial coursework. Additional expansions occurred during 1938 and 1939 as a part of the Works Progress Administration created by President Roosevelt. A historical marker can be found at the street side of L. building and an WPA placard can be found on the outside of the art room to mark these significant events in MHS' history.
MHS students became known as "Skeeters" in 1944. This was a simplification of the traditional "Mesquiters" which had been the previous mascot name for the school. 1954 marked a significant change at MHS when the district relocated all its other existing grade levels to other sites within the city and the campus was solely dedicated to high school education. Integration of the school began in 1964 when area African-American students were allowed to enroll at MHS for the first time. During 1966, a six phase renovation project plan began. The final phase of construction was completed in 1999.
►From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite_High_School_(Mesquite,_Texas) ..
Photo Taken: March 4 2017
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"Bridge 1"
STRUCTURES is a series of generative art pieces the explores the constructions of our world by taking photographs of man-made and natural structures and placing them into a new structure. This process semi-randomly fragments and rearranges the photographs into a grid of my design. I'll often run the images through this process several times, using various grid structures along the way.
Programs used: Lightroom, Photoshop, Processing
Structure Synth terminates the recursion if the number of objects is greater than the given threshold ('set maxobjects ...') or if the recursion depth becomes greater than the maximum depth ('set maxdepth ...'). It is also possible to set a maxdepth for an individual rule ('rule R1 maxdepth 5').
I've added two new rules for controlling the termination.
'set minsize {size}' and 'set maxsize {size}' allows you to specify how large or small a given object can be before terminating. The 'size' parameter refers to the length of the diagonal of a unit cube in the current local state. (The initial coordinate frame goes from (0,0,0) to (1,1,1) and hence has a diagonal length of sqrt(3)~1.7). It is possible to specify both a mix and a min size. The termination criteria only stops the current branch - if other branches are still within a valid range, the will be continued.
This is very useful for preventing Structure Synth from creating boxes which cannot be seen anyway or from growing without bounds.
The image shows the same structure at three different minimum size tresholds.
Example script (requires a post-version 0.9 of Structure Synth!):
set minsize 0.8 // or 0.4, or 0.2
set maxdepth 600
set background #333
{ h 30 sat 0.2 h -67 b 0.8 } spiral
rule spiral w 100 {
box2
{ y 0.4 rx 90 hue 1 s 0.995 b 0.999 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 100 {
box2
{ y 0.4 rx 90 hue -1 rz -90 s 0.995 b 0.999 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 100 {
box2
{ y 0.4 rx 90 hue 0 rz 90 s 0.995 b 0.995 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 3 {
{ rz 5 s 1 1 1 } spiral
{ ry 4 h 3 s 1 1 1 } spiral
}
rule box2 {
{ s 1 5 1 } box
}
rule box2 {
{ s 5 1 1 } box
}
rule box2 {
}
Here is a shot from a few weeks back from Bare Island, La Perouse with my Lee 10 Stop. I really liked the colour version but once i converted it to B&W the image just really popped. Enjoy...
// Produced by Structure Synth V 0.4
// (http://structuresynth.sf.net/)
set maxdepth 600
set background #f94
{ h 30 sat 0.7 } spiral
{ ry 180 h 30 sat 0.7 } spiral
rule spiral w 100 {
box
{ y 0.4 rx 5 hue 1 s 0.995 b 0.999 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 100 {
box
{ y 0.4 rx 5 hue -1 rz -5 s 0.995 b 0.999 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 100 {
box
{ y 0.4 rx 5 hue 0 rz 5 s 0.995 b 0.995 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 3 {
{ rx 15 } spiral
{ ry 180 h 3 } spiral
}
Yaxchilán, Structure 33
Yaxchilan is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Late Classic Period, Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta, with Piedras Negras as its major rival. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the Usumacinta region demonstrate clear differences that mark a clear boundary between the two kingdoms.
Yaxchilan was a large center, important throughout the Classic era, and the dominant power of the Usumacinta River area. It dominated such smaller sites as Bonampak, and had a long rivalry with Piedras Negras and at least for a time with Tikal; it was a rival of Palenque, with which Yaxchilan warred in 654.
The site is particularly known for its well-preserved sculptured stone lintels set above the doorways of the main structures. These lintels, together with the stelae erected before the major buildings, contain hieroglyphic texts describing the dynastic history of the city.
Structure 33, in the Central Acropolis, has been described as a masterpiece in stone and was probably dedicated in 756 by Bird Jaguar IV. The structure overlooks the plaza and the river and would have been prominent to river traffic in the 8th century. It has plain lower walls with three doorways, each of the which supports a well preserved lintel (Yaxchilan Lintels 1 to 3). In the centre of the back wall of the structure, opposite the central doorway, is a niche containing the headless sculpture of a human figure, probably Bird Jaguar IV himself. The roof of the structure is largely intact, including a sloped roof supporting a frieze and a well preserved roof comb. There are niches in both the roof comb and the frieze, the niche in the roof comb contains the remains of a sculpted figure. Tennons on both roof sections once supported stucco decoration. Leading up to the front of Structure 33 from the plaza is a stairway, the top step of which is sculpted, this step is known as Hieroglyphic Stairway 2.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaxchilan)