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Another 'what if' with a Neoplan Tourliner branded for the Caledonian Sleeper, specificaaly for the coach link between Oban and Crainlarich.
Generated and rendered in Structure Synth using javascript Math functions to generate the more flowing features.
These six textures have been lovingly crafted with an old laser copier with an increasingly faulty drum and toner combo, and a flat-bed scanner.
Each textures are scans of individual prints of a black document. They each have subtle variations in the dust and noise patterns, making them unique. The last texture of the set was the last print the drum and toner agreed to generate before giving up.
Each images are around 4750x6300 pixels @ 600 ppi.
Noise and dust textures are perfect to add a subtle depth to your designs. Using them is very simple: just switch your layer's blending mode to "Screen," and play with the opacity slider.
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Now updated with transparent PNGs (ideal to quickly add in a design, and to color them using a color overlay), and bitmap TIFFs (perfect to use in Illustrator for great, detailed texture effects without hogging down your system resources).
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What's included in your download:
- Six (6) raster textures of toner noise and dust
- Roughly 4750x6300 pixels @ 600 ppi
- Bonus: negative versions
- Bonus: transparent PNG versions
- Bonus: bitmap TIFF format for lllustrator
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Photocopy noise textures volume 01: crmrkt.com/MqjoV
Photocopy noise textures volume 02: crmrkt.com/NvKqd
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Learn a few of the ways to use these textures by following these tutorials I wrote:
- www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/illustrator/introducing-the...
- www.designcuts.com/design-cuts-deals/the-ultimate-vintage...
From the 1946 catalogue issued by the Mitchell Engineering group, a company whose interests spanned a wide range both the manufacturing of many types of engineering equipment as well as constructing and fitting out industrial and commercial buildings and structures. One of their areas of expertise was in electricity generating where they made boilers, fuel handling an ash disposal equipment.
Seen here is a contract undertaken for the pre-nationalisation municipal electricity undertaking of Bristol City Council. The City Council had started to generate electricity in 1891 but by the mid-1920s the two original stations, within the city, were proving too small and increasingly obsolete. Construction at the dockside site at Portishead began in 1926 and the station was commissioned in 1929. As a 'selected' station it provided power to the National Grid under the control of the Central Electricity Board. In 1937 the station underwent partial reconstruction including the erection of this single chimney stack, seen here, to replace the original six seperate steel ones. It was, in post war years, joined by Portishead "B" station, at which point this became "A" and after a short period following conversion to oil firing after local coal fields became exhausted and closed, A station ceased generation in 1976 with demolition of the chimneys taking place in the early 1980s - B station closed in 1982.
The Seymour Generating Station on the Trent River near Campbellford Ontario. It was cofounded by John Kerry, an electrical engineering professor at McGill University and Cecil B. Smith, a Toronto engineer, who formed the Seymour Power and Electric Company in 1908. Its five turbines/generators, went on line in December 1909. Acquired by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario in 1916
The start of a new series: Iowa water towers. This one in Cedar Rapids. This generating station is operated by Alliant Energy. Although I suspect that the 'ie' stands for Iowa Electric. The Station used to burn coal to generate electricity. It's been converted to natural gas. August 25, 2018
When I started my career with IBM, one of my co-workers was a very interesting engineer, Marvin K. He was extremely intelligent and curious about many things, including astronomy, science, electronics and photography.
About a year after his death in 2004, his wife called me and said that she had a ham radio that he had built as a teenager and she thought I might like to have it. After I brought it home, I noticed that curled inside of the large copper coil, were several sheets of hand-written notes that described a lot about the construction and early use of this very basic radio transmitter. Typical of Marvin, the note was very detailed and contained a great deal of information about the radio. Here is his narrative....
"This is the short-wave amateur radio transmitter I built when I was age 13 in 1931-1932 in Sac City, Iowa. I operated under the call letters of W9AZA issued for the 80 meter CW band of 3.5 to 3.9 kilocycles per second (now called Kilo Hertz, or KHz, continuous wave, where the transmitter is keyed on and off with a telegraph-type key, using International Morse Code, NO voice operation)
This transmitter is a self-excited, push-pull oscillator, using two type ’45 tubes, where a heavy radio frequency current is generated, which oscillated back and forth at the resonant frequency of a tuned circuit consisting to two things: the large copper coil and the main tuning capacitor (or ‘condenser’). Energy is electromagnetically coupled to the two smaller copper coils which are connected to another tuning capacitor and the antenna system. This provides another resonant circuit which is tuned to the same radio frequency as the oscillator. Energy is then radiated from the antenna system…which was a zeppelin-type antenna with a 132 foot flat top, end fed with two parallel wires spaced 8 inches apart, one connected to one end of the 132’ antenna, the other one dead ended there..(not connected).
A separate power supply provided power to this transmitter. It consisted of a 115-volt AC power transformer, one type ’80 rectifier tube, two 8mfd, 450 volt filter capacitors, a filter choke and bleeder resistor. The transformer also supplied 5 volts AC for the ’80 tube filaments, 2 ½ volts AC for the ’45 tube filaments and 500 to 600 volts AC, center-tapped, for the nominally 250 to 300 volts DC for the transmitter tube plates. Plate power input to the transmitter oscillator circuit was maybe 20 or 30 watts, maximum. (I couldn’t afford voltmeters or ammeters which would have told me more...!) My radius of operation was Iowa and the adjacent states – seldom further.
My short-wave receiver was initially a 1 tube regenerative receiver I built and later a Super Wasp receiver, that my neighbor across the street had built and had replaced with a more up-to-date factory-built SW receiver. The Pilot Super-Wasp required a 6-volt car-battery for the tube filaments and a B- battery eliminator (connected to the 115 volts DC house current) for the 45, 90 and 180 volts DC the receiver used. It had plug-in coils to cover the 20, 40 80 and 160 meter amateur bands, as well as the broadcast band. It was regenerative also.
I operated mainly from 1932 thru 1940. The license had to be renewed, with proof of use, every 3 years or so. I finally let it run out….should have kept it active. My license was W9AZA, was a re-issue and came out when the W9K ---‘s (a very early call)...were coming out. My neighbor got W9KDL as the same time I got mine. He helped me, and we practiced code together via a telegraph line he installed between his house, mine and another 1 block away and one more a mile away..!
The plastic cover over the transmitter is not part of the original, but is just to keep the dust off. The cover, from an IBM type 650 scientific computer magnetic drum (circa 1955-1960) just happened to be the right size…!"
Photo info...shot with a Nikon D750 and Nikon 70-180mm Macro lens. Lit with a single Alien Bee and a gold reflector. This was a focus stack of a dozen exposures, all blended with CombineZP.
A series of AI-generated pictures of Mio I. in different art styles.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
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