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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?
National Park Service Devils Tower Image by Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs
[The following description of Devils Tower geology is from the NPS]
"The magma which formed Devils Tower cooled and crystallized into a rock type known as phonolite porphyry. It is a light to dark-gray or greenish-gray igneous rock with conspicuous crystals of white feldspar. Hot molten magma is less dense and occupies more volume than cool hardened rock. As the rock cooled, it contracted, forming hexagonal (and sometime 4-, 5- and 7-sided) columns separated by vertical cracks. These columns are similar to those found at Devil’s Postpile National Monument in California but those at Devils Tower are much larger."
Source: www.nps.gov/deto/naturescience/geologicformations.htm
Devil's Advocate
By Donald Freed, Winner of the PEN Literary Award for Drama, 2006
Directed by Dee Evans and Clare Reidy
Cast: Dennis Krausnick and Ignatius Anthony
Photos by Kevin Sprague. ©2009
This is Devils Churn on the Oregon coast. A channel has been eroded from the basalt from constant wave action that pulses through it. I am told that the collection of debris including sea shells, crustacians, kelp and God know what else, is ground against the rocks and forms a thick soup which looks like butter floating on the sea. Thus the name Devils Churn.
ND Hwy 57 crossing Devils Lake near Fort Totten, North Dakota.
The Devils Lake is appropriately named. It has no natural outlet so flooding over the last 20+ years has resulted in the lake consuming surrounding farm land, some towns and many highways.
The Devils Marbles is a large field of boulders in the central Australian desert of the Northern Territory. There is an overnight camping area and it is wonderful to experience sunset and sunrise amongst the huge stones. The site is known as Karlu Karlu to the land's Aboriginal traditional owners.
The Devils Marbles is a large field of boulders in the central Australian desert of the Northern Territory. There is an overnight camping area and it is wonderful to experience sunset and sunrise amongst the huge stones. The site is known as Karlu Karlu to the land's Aboriginal traditional owners.
Since the pictures are arranged from last taken, the first picture is at the end. This is the drive up to the Marbles from the road. Fortunately, they were just off the drive. they have the Devils Pebbles as well, which are much, much smaller, but I didnt go see them because of the insult on the description, " the local Aborigine women find the pebbles as a significant place of origin, for the men are reprented in the Marbles." nice, save the little things for the woman. jerks.
Now, with my Deviled Egg Army, I can rule the world!!! JK. I may work in a nuclear plant, but tomorrow we'll be producing methane!!
Blockhouse. Probably 1509-1539. Rubble with granite dressings. Irregular (stretched) octagonal plan with doorway to landward side and gunports to seaward side (the longer sides). Chamfered granite doorway spanned by shallow 2-centred arch; pair of square gunports with rebates for shutters. Part of a series of coastal defences at Plymouth probably built in the reign of Henry VIII.