The details of some of those photos are on the Cloud Appreciation Society's site. http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/name-that-cloud/

REAL IMAGE! REAL VIEW! REAL PHOTO! PHOTO IMAGE! PHOTO VIEW! REALISTIC VIEW! REALISTIC VIEWS? COMPUTER GENERATED REALISTIC VIEWS?

...... here a couple of pics of the production model and of Mr & Mrs Yeti with Baby Yeti, sadly he did not get his mother's look [image: 5Ksy_YetiProd01.jpg] [image: wvZR_YetiProd02.jpg] [image: aEbq_MrampMrsYetiwithBabyYeti.jpg]

Yep ... well, really we live NEAR Coarsegold - but the USPS lumps us all in together. We live in a development of about 2,000 homes with minimum 1 acre lots. Really great people live here in the foothills, we don't have the glare of the city (Fresno), and we're above the nasty valley Tule Fog (ya ain't been in fog till you've been in the Tule Fog!). The other upside is that we are only an hour and a half from the Yosemite Valley floor and only 45 minutes from Bass Lake (awesome boating lake - it was featured in the John Candy / Dan Aykroyd movie "The Great Outdoors").

Note that it was 1990 (almost 20 years ago) when I was there. And indeed, the suburbs (then) looked like that here and there. And yes, our abandoned mines have also been (kind of) "recultivated" here ever since

I thought you guys might be interested in the final result last night. The winners were Diversity, a tremendously original and inventive dance act. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIz8BgRQc0 Second, was Susan Boyle, reprising her first offering, seen at the start of this thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2elS5rNkI Third was Julian Smith; also reprising his original performance...but giving an unabridged version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Cr-1iQQ2E Sound about right, but I think I'd have switched 2 and 3 around. akf Tenor/Accoustic guitar/Blues Harp

Thanks Tomasz, ...have you any opinion about the second one, Peter Schiff ?

@gaieus said: Well, even if it attracts tourists only (as also suggested in the article), good plan. They only have sand in that desert anyway so let's let them play in their sandbox. I wonder if this is the best solution for them for attracting tourists....i mean i don't know if ordinary people not jusr UFOlogists will go there, and i doubt that they are so many that millions if dollars are worth making that embassy. A better sollution would have been making the opposite of where Dubai is doing, instead of making new islands in the sea, better make new seas or lakes in the desert (oasis) .

Ah, the curse of the 3d modeler when thrown back into the real world! LOL. After using SU for a full day I try to use my MMB to tilt my screen so I can see further down the web page without scrolling.

Ooooh! Where can I get this extract of skunk cabbage? It sounds great, and I must have it.

@unknownuser said: Man if you are good at truespace you must be a wizz kid at SU. Truespace was my first 3d app 25 years ago. I could built my whole truespace lifes work with SU in about two days. Amen to that. I remember Caligari when first introduced on the Amiga -- way back when.

my grandpa lived 97 so far the longest age in our family he was riding the bicycle at 80 ...main issues eyes and some headaches

Dylan, Possibly the easiest way would be to make a duplicate layer of the background photo, then sandwich the layer containing the canopy between the two identical layers, positioning the canopy correctly. I'd then use the magic wand (or colour range...as Jackson suggests) on the clouds in the top photo layer...set to a reasonable tolerance like 100....select then delete. That ought to leave just the tree showing in the sky area, with the canopy showing through the gaps. You could probably then just sample some of the vignetted leaves and copy them over the bits of canopy that fall in front of the buildings, but behind the tree.

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Colorful site indeed

Although I never actually entered the run, I did run down that hill quite a few times in my childhood. Oh, and rolled down it a few as well. Some aged relatives lived in a tiny cottage somewhere on the hill and I got to visit during summers spent with my grandparents- so long ago that it was even before anyone walked on the Moon.

Absolutely bl**dy fantastic!

He made four posts on here. He got a $500 programme for free. $125 for each post he made.

My alternative approach using ASCII characters... : ) ... Large, but 2116 characters [image: 3ryB_MonaLisaLarge.jpg] Medium, but 564 characters [image: 468X_MonaLisaMedium.jpg] Small, 140 characters - BUT you need to squint a bit... [image: 1Sf6_MonaLisaSmall.jpg]

And I even know why.