Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Mind Blowing Artistic Rendering Of Red Planet

The outstanding digital rendering techniques of the Dutchman Kees Veenenbos have been featured in National Geographic and on NASA pages. The images he rendered are made with a landscape program called Terragen. He has worked with this program since 1999 in different versions of course. Most are made with digital elevation models of NASA, from different satellites like the Mars Global Surveyor for example.


























































This is really unbelievable

This is the Diga del Cingino dam in Italy -
But look closely . . . . See the dark spots on the dam wall? 


 


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Now take an even closer look at those dark spots . . . 

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and if you couldn't believe it before . . . .now look at it closer 

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yep. . . that is a critter climbing up that wall!!

Amazing Eco Friendly House

How to build Eco-friendly house for 5 thousand dollars for three months? British family in Wales knows how! Inspired by watching the movie "Lord of the Rings", the young couple decided to build their own home, the same as the hobbits in the movie. In the construction used only natural materials: oak, peat, clay, no modern toxic chemicals. Construction formally incorporated into the hillside. The house has a natural refrigerator - always a cool cellar, the water from the nearest source, solar panels provide electricity


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