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(...) <snip> (...) You probably already know, but registering a domain name and getting more bandwidth are two different things. You can get more bandwidth, more webspace, or more hosting services without necessarily having your own domain name, but (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Thanks, Gil! It's my pleasure to share this with everyone and help get the creative juices flowing and gather input to improve my techniques. I'll try to keep the info coming. I know I'd like to go over how to make a canyonesque planet but I (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) One of the controls you can also use is the sphereize filter in the Distort menu. That will allow you to create or drop in a scan of a continent and stuff. From there you define a circular area (Shift circle to get a perfect circle)and then (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Clouds are tricky. I haven’t figured out the best way to render them yet, but take a look at this pic: (URL) that type of “cracked and craggy” planet is a lesson by itself—I’ll get to that in another post. Anyway, for those clouds, what I did was: (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) etc. In the past, to make those sorts of things, Ive used the 'render clouds', then distorted the image in various ways. Of course that always entails ugly amounts of work since the cloud rendering always has that same sparse fractal dimension (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Actually my "more accurate rendering" was done with pencil and paper. I suppose I could scan it. As for astronomical accuracy, I just thought somewhere in the back of my mind that the lit spot on the planet was somehow different from the way (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Actually Dan, I've been taking the Jassim Starfield (and Galaxy) tutorial and have been more than pleased with the resulting galactic backdrops. It's saved me scouring the 'Net and stealing other people's images. Thanks kindly, Teach! Cheers, -G (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Thank you for your suggestions. I was trying to keep this recipe as basic as possible--sort of an intro for those who haven't tried this. Thus, that particular picture was not an exercise in astronomical accuracy but more for simply using the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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In lugnet.space, Daniel Jassim writes: ... (...) . . . (...) looks wrong. The lit spot is too small, unless the star is tiny, and practically on top of the planet. Perhaps you need to drag the gradient circle just a bit further if you start at the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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Greetings! Here's a simple starfield recipe for Photoshop: - Make a new document, 720 X 480 pixels, 300 dpi, Mode: Grayscale - Go to your Tool Palette and grab your Paint Bucket tool and fill the canvas with black - Go to Filter, then Texture, then (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Hi all, Recently at the Robocup Junior Finals, Thunderbots took first place in that competition. To find out more Click this link (URL) Au (23 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Bill, It's clear that you've made up your mind, as have I. Ok, no biggie, but I can see that our debate is starting to go in circles now. I'm not turning on javascript for the simple reason that I don't need it -- the vast majority of the sites I (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I checked stats on my site (just my stuff, since the site actually has some more techhie content elsewhere)-- about 86% of the last 500K+ hits were MSIE, 12% Netscape/Mozilla. Most of the rest were bots, or things like Scooter, Opera, etc. If (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) It hasn't been a risk for a long time. Some early browsers had Javascript security risks, but they were fixed years ago. It's nothing like the ActiveX risks in MSIE - but luckily few sites use ActiveX, so that's safe to turn off (if you must (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I would also like to know what happened to this feature... Jeff J (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) So-- you could see the images on the crawler page ok? Huh... considering that they were in onmouseovers and onmouseouts, I'm again amazed... The default images when I looked were for invalid urls... huh... DaveE (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ah, bummer. I'm sorry to be such a pill. FWIW, I was able to see the UCS Tie Crawler page once someone gave me the URL for it -- the images on that load just fine. Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ya. Weird. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Dave, I've been using Homestead for the past couple of years and haven't had much problems with them. Regular viewers of the site know that most of the pics shown have the hidden pic every now and then. Unfortunately, the Homestead software creates (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Jeremy, The Homestead software creates the javascript behind the scenes. All of the webpages are done through it and there's no easy way of getting around it. Sorry, I know it's not the answer you were looking for. Regards, ACPin & Sons (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
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