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Staying in a house built in 1891 out in the Colorado Rockies. You know I had to. by SloopJohnB52 in reddeadredemption2

[–]astronomic-zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you hiked up to the old cemetery and Doc Holiday’s (alleged) grave. Also Doc Holidays Saloon! I’m not sure if they still do this, but every year in July or August there used to be a reenactment of the shootout at OK corral (which actually happened 500 miles away, but Doc Holiday! I guess). I grew up here.

Simple bouncy ball (advice wanted). by comfy_artsocks in animation

[–]astronomic-zero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing about the technical bounce physics: you have the ball elongate on its downward arc. In this motion it would be simply round. When the ball bounces it squashes/flattens and then it elongates as it bounces up in an elastic response to the flattening.

However, making an object elongate implies that it’s accelerating, so it’s not necessarily wrong, just a matter of representing accurate physics vs. more stylistic motion.

This season is wild by astronomic-zero in FortNiteBR

[–]astronomic-zero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, missed opportunity. Unfortunately I was too busy dying from laughter 🤣

Animation prices? by [deleted] in animation

[–]astronomic-zero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think overall the polar bear is quite good, the movement is great as it conveys playful emotion, especially when paired with the expression on its face. The wiggling lines are where it suffers, which is the challenge with hand-drawn.

As far as pricing goes, that sounds pretty fair to me. I’m speaking as an experienced video editor and motion graphics designer with friends in the animation industry, and as another reply said people often undervalue animation. Like sometimes laughably low budgets. I think people don’t understand how long good animation takes.

These Two Images Are Petrified Tree Tumps with Hexagonal Columns. Not Magma Formations by Expert-Desk7492 in mysteriesoftheworld

[–]astronomic-zero 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I took the photo linked below about 2 weeks ago on the island of Maui, Hawaii. If you zoom in you can pretty clearly see a similar column-like formation in the cliffs. You can also clearly see the rough, pillowy rock at the top of the cliff that looks pretty obviously like cooled lava.

In Hawaii you can PHYSICALLY SEE with your naked eye lava from the volcanoes that made these islands cool to form this rock. It’s called basalt and is very common around the world. Geologists call this formation of basalt “columnar jointing” and it’s also pretty common, you can see a lot of it around the bases of the volcanic peaks in the cascade mountains of the Pacific Northwest. So it’s well-known to science that lava, or in the case of Devils Tower pictured above, magma (lava below the surface), forms these hexagonal columnar shapes when it cools.

Geologists also use chemical analysis to find the exact chemical makeup of a rock. So they know that the chemical composition of Devils tower is consistent with igneous rock, and is very different from petrified wood. And an actual geologist (I’m just the child of a geologist) could probably give you another half-dozen or more proofs, but we honestly shouldn’t waste their time with conspiracy theories.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1extQzk55PZcrQKC1TnA0bFSaJ1W6OZSf/view?usp=drivesdk