[QUOTE=Scot;47181625]Can't believe I've never heard of this place
[t]http://www.cruiseeurope.com/sites/default/files/cthomas_jouanneau_mont1_0.jpg[/t]
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I was there 10-15 years ago. It was a pretty cool place. I purchased a cheap pocket knife there, but now the lettering has worn off from use.
One thing I'm really fascinated by are Soviet pre WW2 experimental medium and heavy tanks:
The T-35 heavy tank had 5 separate turrets containing 1x 76mm gun, 2x 45mm guns and 6x 7.62mm machine guns . The idea was that it should break through enemy lines, so that it could fire in all directions and create chaos. In this video of the last surviving tank, you can see how truly massive it is. It had a crew of 11 people, and only 61 were ever built. They were used in the Winter War against Finland, and the 35 something surviving tanks took part in the early stages of the Siege of Leningrad.
[video=youtube;CW6PsbfBiRw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6PsbfBiRw[/video]
The Soviets also built the T-28, a tank that was more mobile and just as well armored, at the cost of "only" having three turrets and one main gun. Here is a video of a captured tank in Finnish service:
[video=youtube;2jRpoc7NA2M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jRpoc7NA2M[/video]
Finland had no armor of their own at the beginning of WW2, so they relied entirely on captured Soviet tanks until they purchased 59 StuG III Ausf. G from Nazi Germany in 1943-44.
[QUOTE=Scot;47181625]Can't believe I've never heard of this place
[t]http://www.cruiseeurope.com/sites/default/files/cthomas_jouanneau_mont1_0.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/MtStMichel_avion.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
When I was a young kid on holiday in France we drove past there, and when I grew older I looked back on it and thought "Fuck that can't be real, either it was a dream or my memory got exaggerated over time"
[QUOTE=Scot;47181625]Can't believe I've never heard of this place
[t]http://www.cruiseeurope.com/sites/default/files/cthomas_jouanneau_mont1_0.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/MtStMichel_avion.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I have been there! It's a really awesome place to visit.
Also:
[IMG]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/castlevania/images/b/b0/Castlevania_-_Symphony_of_the_Night_(gamebox).jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140214001126[/IMG]
Theres somethig similar to that over here (down in Cornwall) but minus that town.
[T]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/England-Saint-Michaels-Mount-1900-1.jpg[/T]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Hellas_Planitia_by_the_Viking_orbiters.jpg/800px-Hellas_Planitia_by_the_Viking_orbiters.jpg[/t]
Largest visible crater in the Solar System, 2300 km in diameter.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Iapetus_706_1419_1.jpg/800px-Iapetus_706_1419_1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/A_Moon_with_Two_Dark_Sides.jpg/640px-A_Moon_with_Two_Dark_Sides.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Iapetus_as_seen_by_the_Cassini_probe_-_20071008.jpg/640px-Iapetus_as_seen_by_the_Cassini_probe_-_20071008.jpg[/t]
Third largest of Saturn's moons, those craters are 580km and 504km in diameter.
[QUOTE=Scot;47181625]Can't believe I've never heard of this place
[t]http://www.cruiseeurope.com/sites/default/files/cthomas_jouanneau_mont1_0.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/MtStMichel_avion.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I was there aswell, gorgeous place.
While we are at this topic, have some pictures of Mont St. Michel after german forces where pushed back to Germany.
[img]http://abload.de/img/pp1100873yshm.jpg[/img]
[thumb]http://abload.de/img/ap4408051169z4scz.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://abload.de/img/irwinshawmt.stmichellejslz.jpg[/thumb]
I know that there must be some nice photos while it was actually occupied by the germans but I can't find any good ones, maybe someone else has more luck than me.
[QUOTE=Killbane;47184645]Theres somethig similar to that over here (down in Cornwall) but minus that town.
[T]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/England-Saint-Michaels-Mount-1900-1.jpg[/T][/QUOTE]
That place looks haunted as fuck.
Wait are both island castles called Saint Michaels Mount?
Spooky.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Mount[/url]
Sims 4 in a Sims-1-style-non-perspective view.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/8KVAjIX.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/JOoD5MT.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/V0N08Xk.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/tAOKh89.jpg[/t]
And more: [url=http://imgur.com/a/x2POW][1][/url] - [url=http://imgur.com/a/NX38k][2][/url]
[I]Now that's sharp looking![/I] I know the game got a lot of gripe for its "graphical downgrades", but frankly I always felt it had a great visual style. This just adds to it.
Hey, I went there in the December of 2014! Fucking cool place.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/AnyOzDJ.jpg[/t]
Also, had to spend €200 from our hotel in Bayeux for 1 hour of taxi ride to that castle with my brother because we were only in Normandy for 3 days, so train was too slow.
But that shit was fucking worth it
]But there were shitload of Japanese and China tourist though.
And the fucking church at the top was cool, especially when the nuns/monks were singing, and you could hear the echolocation from the whole church hallway.
[editline]22nd February 2015[/editline]
Have a few more photos I took:
[IMG]https://scontent-sin.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10247299_10152976237206622_8881366239975868787_n.jpg?oh=8059b299e0db0b306c7073aa44b0cdff&oe=55960B93[/IMG]
[QUOTE]The church at the top, damn thing looks like hogwarts[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/4N47kTo.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The castle, from like 10km away.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/5aW2doM.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]on the bridge, up close to the castle.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/UPVxp9w.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Took 1 last shot as me and my bro were leaving for the bus[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=alien_guy;47184932][IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1TXHPYZTno0/UCBqkh_cKHI/AAAAAAAAA1s/74xrAMFR75M/s640/Gif-Tiny-Capital_1.gif[/IMG]
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4IBX-Qu_I40/UwtaN5zvlFI/AAAAAAAATXI/RhpPpIlU2KI/s1600/Armani-Bridge-615.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Does anyone else get a warm, cozy feeling looking at cityscapes like this?
[QUOTE=Skyward;47185261]Sims 4 in a Sims-1-style-non-perspective view.[/QUOTE]
Depth-less views like that are called isometric or orthographic. :eng101:
[sp]IIRC, isometric is when it's rendered from a specific angle, while orthographic is just depth-less 3d in general.[/sp]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;47184670][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Iapetus_706_1419_1.jpg/800px-Iapetus_706_1419_1.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Largest visible walnut in the Solar System
[QUOTE=paul simon;47185846]Depth-less views like that are called isometric or orthographic. :eng101:
[sp]IIRC, isometric is when it's rendered from a specific angle, while orthographic is just depth-less 3d in general.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Finally my knowledge as a certified construction draftsman proves useful! Orthographic images do show depth, just not the distortion from perspective. Two parallel beams would always be parallel, no matter where you view them from while, in perspective, they might appear differently, depending on things like the distance or the field of view.
the Isometric view is one of several common artificial projected perspectives, made just to represent three-dimensional objects, most commonly building in illustrations so that the key proportions are communicated but the drawing space is used more efficiently. You project the x, y and z distances at a 1:1 ratio but you project all angles differently. If you take a simple cube as an example, the 90° angles of the x-y face becomes a 120° angle.
[IMG]http://www.technisches-zeichnen.net/bilder-01/ansicht-isometrisch.jpg[/IMG]
Another example would be a dimetric projection, where the y length is projected 1:1 but the x is only half. The angles of our cube are at 7° for the y and 42°for the x, from a horizontal base line.
[IMG]http://www.technisches-zeichnen.net/bilder-01/ansicht-dimetrisch.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=OvB;47154933]I have an Afghan war rug from my father who's spent a lot of time over there. It's got an AK-47, an RPG, a tank I think, but most interesting is the fact that they don't know how to spell Afghanistan in English, so it's just written on there with the first letter being an "A, then some random letters that sort of follow the same shape, with a few Russian characters mixed in too. I'll take a picture of it next weekend if I remember.[/QUOTE]
As promised:
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/vuFwceT.jpg[/img_thumb]
Cerebus the Aardvark is a comic that ran from 1977 to 2004. It was made by 2 guys through the entire run (with one of the guys dropping out occasionally). It ran for so long that the main guy behind it (Dave Sim) went through a marriage and a divorce with one of the main publicists over the course of making the thing. He also went through various problems such as drug addiction and mental health deterioration (which is visible in the comics), so it's safe to say that by the time Cerebus was finished, he was a little bit insane.
It's a long read and is often quite tedious, but the below linked pictures show (tagged for anyone that ever wants to read it) [sp]the death of Cerebus after falling out of bed, trying to kill his son (the son he spent the entire issue trying to get to see so that he could just talk to him and try and make things right with). The death of a character older than a lot of people on this forum and from one of the longest ongoing stories in modern times, and the end of a long, hard, personal journey for one man and the character himself.
Not the end of the issue itself, since his ghost starts going to heaven, but then some shit happens and it turns out it may have been Hell he was going into. It's left ambiguous.[/sp]
[quote=Cerebus the Aardvark #300][url=http://i.imgur.com/9sgsBHl.jpg]1[/url][url=http://i.imgur.com/a9w4uk5.jpg]2[/url][url=http://i.imgur.com/EENnJQk.jpg]3[/url][url=http://i.imgur.com/VYD1cC1.jpg]4[/url][url=http://i.imgur.com/WkL9rwM.jpg]5[/url][/quote]
The comic is at first satire (which becomes kind of ongoing through the entire thing), but becomes about politics, religion, family, ethics, and a LOT of other shit. It also gets very pretentious at times, especially when half of the page is just paragraphs upon paragraphs of text (and especially when the author basically turns Cerebus into his vessel to talk through) but holy shit. It reaches some dark places and gets really goddamn deep sometimes, and the wording and art in some stories is absolutely 10/10. This comic is older than me, and it was (almost) all done by one man. Posting because I thought it might interest some people, and I thought it deserved a bit more recognition for what it is.
[t]http://penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/46_web.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.paradiseorientalrugs.com/albums/album11/2008_Afghan_War_rug.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The war rug tradition of Afghanistan has its origins in the decade of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979, and has continued through subsequent military, political and social conflicts. Afghan rug-makers began incorporating the apparatus of war into their designs almost immediately after the Soviet Union invaded their country. They continue to do so today in the wake of the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan which ousted the Taliban government of Mullah Omar but has failed to bring an end to violence in the country. The rugs produced in response to these events are among the world's richest traditions of war art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The terms Baluch and war rug are generalisations given to the genre by rug dealers, commercial galleries, collectors, critics and commentators. The distinctive characteristic of these rugs is their capacity to convey their makers' experiences and interpretations of the circumstances and politics of war and conflict in the region.
Little is known about the circumstances of war rugs' production and distribution, or their makers' intentions.[/QUOTE]
Storytelling with rugs, when you don't have much else going in a place wich has been at war for decades...
That one looks like it has the same theme as mine. It's nearly identical.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;47188170]Storytelling with rugs, when you don't have much else going in a place wich has been at war for decades...[/QUOTE]
I doubt it comes out of 'having nothing to do' as though it's a trite passtime. Tapestry making has been a staple of cultures worldwide for millenia - Tudor wars and the Crusades being recorded in rugs and wall hangings and all the rest of it. This sort of thing is just as important and culturally valuable as any other artifact
[QUOTE=Scot;47181625]Can't believe I've never heard of this place
[t]http://www.cruiseeurope.com/sites/default/files/cthomas_jouanneau_mont1_0.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/MtStMichel_avion.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Can you imagine what it looks like if this island was on a giant robot spider?
[url]http://geniscarreras.com/philographics/[/url]
I thought this was pretty cool. They'd make for some great posters.
[url]http://inbflat.net/[/url]
here's a nifty project i thought you guys would like
EDIT: Here's a couple more interesting finds:
[url]http://labs.dinahmoe.com/plink/[/url]
Here you can jump in at anytime and make music with anyone
[url]http://you.regettingold.com/[/url]
(you're getting old, not you're getting gold) this just shows some neat facts about your age
[url]http://asoftmurmur.com/[/url]
if you need relaxing sounds, this is perfect for you. Select your own degrees of sounds ranging from rain to white noise
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;47187670]Cerebus the Aardvark is a comic that ran from 1977 to 2004. It was made by 2 guys through the entire run (with one of the guys dropping out occasionally). It ran for so long that the main guy behind it (Dave Sim) went through a marriage and a divorce with one of the main publicists over the course of making the thing. He also went through various problems such as drug addiction and mental health deterioration (which is visible in the comics), so it's safe to say that by the time Cerebus was finished, he was a little bit insane.
It's a long read and is often quite tedious, but the below linked pictures show (tagged for anyone that ever wants to read it) [sp]the death of Cerebus after falling out of bed, trying to kill his son (the son he spent the entire issue trying to get to see so that he could just talk to him and try and make things right with). The death of a character older than a lot of people on this forum and from one of the longest ongoing stories in modern times, and the end of a long, hard, personal journey for one man and the character himself.
Not the end of the issue itself, since his ghost starts going to heaven, but then some shit happens and it turns out it may have been Hell he was going into. It's left ambiguous.[/sp]
The comic is at first satire (which becomes kind of ongoing through the entire thing), but becomes about politics, religion, family, ethics, and a LOT of other shit. It also gets very pretentious at times, especially when half of the page is just paragraphs upon paragraphs of text (and especially when the author basically turns Cerebus into his vessel to talk through) but holy shit. It reaches some dark places and gets really goddamn deep sometimes, and the wording and art in some stories is absolutely 10/10. This comic is older than me, and it was (almost) all done by one man. Posting because I thought it might interest some people, and I thought it deserved a bit more recognition for what it is.[/QUOTE]
It was satire at first because Sim was part of the black and white glut of the 1980s of parody books that followed TMNT such as Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Cerberus and an entire shit-ton of others.
Realizing how close he had come to being out of the only job on earth he was really qualified for in the aftermath, Sim changed the direction of the book to exploring both himself and his friends and also quite brilliantly, what happens after the hero saves the day, which has never really been touched on terribly often in comics and the fantasy genre in particular. (Dune is one of the few instances where you get to see how everything turns out after the adventuring is over and having to go back to real life begins.)
Cerberus pretty much goes from being a simpleton barbarian to one of the most brutal and conniving despots the world has ever seen, and he's aware of having to make these choices the entire time.
Much like Jeff Smith's [i]Bone[/i] it's a one of kind series that does things in a way most comics would never even consider attempting, much less following through.
It also wouldn't last twenty issues in the current political climate.
[QUOTE=OvB;47188255]That one looks like it has the same theme as mine. It's nearly identical.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.warrug.com/warrugs/styles.php?ids=4"]a lot of them[/URL] do but who knows, could be the same weaver
[t]http://i.imgur.com/oLOzigc.jpg[/t]
That's a mixture of sodium tungstate and tungsten trioxide in a molten state, heated to 850 degrees C. The walls of the furnace are glowing orange due to the heat. I later electrolysed it to produce crystals of sodium tungsten bronze. More on that here in my brand spanking new [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1452581]chemistry discussion thread[/url].
[URL="http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/index.php/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992/"]We almost had a life-size USS Enterprize in Las Vegas.[/URL]
[IMG]http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/11.jpg[/IMG]
i find it weird that it received such widespread approval, wouldn't that overshadow literally everything else in las vegas?
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;47194316]i find it weird that it received such widespread approval, wouldn't that overshadow literally everything else in las vegas?[/QUOTE]
It's Vegas, the concept of overshadowing does not exist. You simply build something even glitzier and more over-the-top.
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