Playing more with textures than with anything else really.

Lots of glass discs.

More fun with glass discs. I'll admit to a little post-PoVRay processing in Paint Shop Pro... This is two pieces of the same scene merged together, omitting the part that came out oddly wrinkled and ugly.

And not exactly the best desktop ever, but a little mystery:

The source scene...

...and the result.

How this thing went from a relatively smooth cylindrical bezier patch to a lumpy and forbidding spire I don't know. Where the fog came from I don't know either; there is none specified in the scene. My little mathematical world is haunted, heh. :)

Stop me if I've written about this before (ha, too late!), but I don't think I have. One of the ways I keep myself entertained throughout my daily routine is imagining that I'm having a conversation with someone from some other period in history. Could be someone famous, like Bach or Da Vinci, or it could just be some poor dude thrown forward in time from the Middle Ages or ancient Egypt or the Industrial Revolution. This little exercise pretends there is no language barrier beyond slang and technical terms, and that they're not completely catatonic from the shock of not being able to comprehend the world around them.

What would they ask about? Depending on the era from which they hailed I've tried to explain cars, asphalt, telephone wires, plastic, CD players, computers, television, airplanes, modern construction/architecture, music synthesis, rock & roll, syncopation, plumbing, air conditioning, electric lights, our socio-economics and government, credit cards, email, the web, microwave ovens, and many other things. I'm not sure what would baffle them the most really. Sometimes I try to be thorough, sometimes I try to explain it as quickly and simply as possible under the assumption that they've already been distracted by some other wonder before I'm through anyway. Chances are, they'd be baffled and stymied by a screw top on a plastic bottle, or my tennis shoes.

But I still believe basic human nature hasn't changed much since before the first cave paintings.

I also believe that 94 degrees is too hot to take a walk while wearing all black. Phew.

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That little haunted mathematical scene is very cool looking. :) So are both the glass scenes, I think I've found my new desktop image! Heh.

Thats a very interesting way to entertain yourself, Dave. I've honestly never done that before, but hey, theres a first time for everything, right? :)