| Today's wallpaper was made in Bryce 5. Every once in a while I have to dust it off and remind myself it's good for more than the dime-a-dozen mountains and water and floaty spheres people usually make with it.
What if a parched, cracked mud landscape were made of dark swirling water? :)
Speaking of mud...
This one was more fun, I used an approach closer to what I was doing in PoVRay. Just because Bryce has a sky doesn't mean you can't put the camera inside of reflective, partially transparent things with lights in them. Half-submerged in this case. I don't want to think about the effort it would have taken to do some of these effects with Moray/PoVRay. I will say placing objects is much easier with Moray though... Bryce has a unique non-intuitive style of interface that isn't anything like a typical Windows, Mac, Adobe, Max or even Corel application (despite being owned by Corel).
Our New Year Retreat begins Thursday. July 31-August 4 are not a part of the Kemetic year... a side effect of a nice round 360 day calendar, and mythically, of the old year spiralling out of control and needing a reboot so it doesn't plow into a hillside. Something like that anyway. After sunrise on the 5th everything is peachy again for another 360.
The event as a whole is one heck of an emotional roller coaster ride. Some of the happiest and brightest and most beautiful moments of my life, and some of the most scary and serious and difficult ones, have been during these things. It's not a vacation, that's for sure... but I wouldn't miss it for anything.
I woke up in a futuristic world,
there were flying cars and gigantic metal bugs,
I'd grown a beard, it was long and white,
but I knew that the girl would be coming very soon,
For though everything had changed there was still that clock,
and it still said four of two.
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