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Cargile
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Tired of the same ol' starship? Here's a planet!Looks real doesn't it? Can you guess how I did it? [This message was edited by Cargile on June 06, 1999.]
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Sunspot
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Me likey!------------------ "You were right about the negotiations...they were short." ObiWan Kenobi to QuiGon Jinn, The Phantom Menace
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Sol System
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Ok, I'll bite. I would guess that you took a picture of the Earth and used those textures to paint your own planet. That's why the land looks real. Close?------------------ "Near the door! They leave reality inside!"
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monkeyboy
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Hey! I see a shape that resembles CHina in the sand.------------------ I did'nt do it.
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TSN
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I see a face in that bay in the North...------------------ "Flying Thompson's Gazelle of the Yard!" -Inspector Fox, the Arguement Clinic sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Warped1701
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Yeah, and it looks kind of like JFK.------------------ "Angels and Ministers of Grace, defend us" -Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV
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Bernd
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Maybe you took a real satellite image, applied a color mask to it, and filled the masked region blue.------------------ "No, thanks. I've had enough. One more cup and I'll jump to warp." (Janeway, asked if she would like some coffee in "Once upon a Time") www.uni-siegen.de/~ihe/bs/startrek/
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Cargile
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Nope! I did it pixel by pixel.No really, Sol wins. I drew the outlines and scanned a sat view of earth and cut out small typical areas. I used a clone brush to paint those areas in. Or maybe I rented a small interstellar charter and took a photograph of the planet. ------------------ "Minsk." Cmdr Worf
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Sol System
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Aha! I may not be an artist, but perhaps I could be an art critic. ------------------ "Gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love." -- Soul Coughing
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Federation Shipmaster
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Ummm....I don't know if putting up Star Wars quotes is such a cool idea. I saw the movie less than a week ago for the first time and I wouldn't like it I heard anything about it ahead of time..------------------ What bloke invented signatures?
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Baloo
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Here's the "orbital view" I created from the original (quite some time ago, I might add). --Baloo ------------------ American Society of Newspaper Editors motto: "Proudly Maintaining the (Continued on Page A-4)". www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/
[This message was edited by Baloo on June 16, 1999.]
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Federation Shipmaster
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Cool, but it needs more weather.------------------ What bloke invented signatures?
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