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Lots of problems with this shot but I liked the composition. One of those great in theory shots.
Taken at Worm's head, Rhossili, Gower, Wales, UK.
No graphics please.
The reflective surfaces are not textures!
Mumixer had pointed me in the direction of Devil's Moon a few weeks ago but with one thing and another I only made it out there today - and fell flat on my face so to speak: I was always under the impression that reflections and reflectivity is beyond the scope of present day real time render. So, how on earth did they achieve this? And why does it create no lag whatsoever? I took a lot of screenshots, some from the exact same location at slight angle variations since I want my computer scientist colleague, Selim to take a look at these and tell me what the hell is going on here...
Beautiful SIM too btw, but quite frankly the technology had me so gobsmacked that I couldn't really take much else in. Will go back for sure.
6 hours later:
ahum... Mossy put me wise: It is an extremely clever design trick: They did the entire architecture twice, one being the perpendicular mirror image of the other and then interleaved it with those transparent textures.
jeez... am i embarrassed or what?
The Childrens Graveyard on the Island of Royale. Most of the Children died of Childhood diseases. Emilien was 27 months when he died in 1906
Taken near the topmost switchback of the Devil's Corkscrew. It took us about half an hour to climb up from the creek.
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Devils Tower phonolite porphyry, Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. The large white crystals are plagioclase. Nickle for scale. Photograph by R.F. Hopson Copyright. © All rights reserved.
The Devils Postpile is an amazing sight. I could attempt to write a description of how this formation was created, but you'd be better off checking out this link.
For a scale, check out the size of the trees. These are huge columns of rock.
I'm the devil, or I'm wearing a scary hockey mask from Kingdom of Loathing that has horns. The Office Space reference is nice.
Note in particular the crazy dude who has his crazy girlfriend on his shoulders while standing on Devil's Bridge. She was screaming and a girl that was watching this unfold began having a panic attack! It was hilarious.
I believe the popular therory is that Devil's Tower is basically the solidified magma from an ancient volcano. The cone of the volcano has eroded away, leaving the rock to tower over the surrounding hills.
Devils Tower is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge ... Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. .... a prime example being the columnar “hoodoo” formations at Bryce Canyon National Park.
An unusual geologic formation in the Eastern Sierra, the Devil's Postpile is a major attraction for the area.