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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?
For such God-fearing people, New Englanders sure do love the devil when it comes to naming natural features.
Looking south from near the summit of Mount Monument. The rock is a knob of the super-hard and erosionally-resistant Cambrian Chesire quartzite poking up in the middle of the Housatonic Valley, which is largely underlain by the Stockbridge marlble and associated carbonate rocks. They're all folded about like toffee now, but the Chesire is basically +/- 500 million year-old beach sand deposited at the equator on the shores of a continent called Laurentia-- the ancestor to present day North America.
Started off in a place called Devils Dyke where I stepped in a ton of dog shit, then off to a pub in harpenden where i stunk out the place and round the streets. All in all a good time was had!
Devil's Tower looms up from the ground in northeastern Wyoming. The vertical lines are the earth's rock layers on edge.
When He created a little devil, like any proud mom the good Lord exclaimed "Darling little devil !!".And yes,this was long long ago,when the devil was a tiny tot and amused God with his endless pranks on the good little angels.He would steal their halos while they slept and prance around with the halos hung on his little horns.And then one day as he grew up,,like any harassed mom the good Lord exclaimed "The devil !!" :D.The good little devil is approximately 6 inches.
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. Devils Tower is American's first national monument, created by President Theodore Roosevelt under the Antiquities Act in 1906.
Devils Tower National Monument Wyoming. Devils Tower is American's first national monument, created by President Theodore Roosevelt under the Antiquities Act in 1906.
Devil's Lake is the site of annual Ho-Chunk Nation celebrations which have been conducted for many generations. The Ho-Chunk gave Devil's Lake its name because it was said that the voices of spirits were often heard during the celebrations. Their name, however, was “Da-wa-kah-char-gra” meaning “Spirit Lake.”