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Thread: Is there an eclipse occurring?
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2010-08-16, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-16, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
Actually, what I learned in art school was the importance of choosing a style for your work that is appealing and appropriate to the mood you are trying to communicate, how to compose a page and balance text and image elements, how to communicate ideas with images regardless of their anatomical accuracy, how to use vector art programs like Adobe Illustrator, how to use color properly, how to simplify complex shapes into iconic symbols that are recognizable nonetheless, how to prepare a book to be printed, and how to run an independent business that deals with issues like copyrights, trademarks, and the like. I have a degree in Graphic Design, not Fine Art, though it's easy to forget that most people think art school is exactly what they see in the movies: naked people and pencil drawings, nothing more or less.
On the plus side, they did manage to teach me the proper sequence for the first six letters of the alphabet.Rich Burlew
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2010-08-16, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-16, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
Someone bit the moon.
On the plus side, they did manage to teach me the proper sequence for the first six letters of the alphabet.
it's easy to forget that most people think art school is exactly what they see in the movies: naked people and pencil drawings
Seriously, though, we appreciate your art and are glad you went to art school to learn about... whatever the heck they teach you... can't believe they don't cover astronomy... what are they teaching kids these days?Cry "Havoc," and let slip the gnomes of war! Or something...
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2010-08-16, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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A webcomic by Sahaar and I, Shadow of Fire. Read it!
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2010-08-17, 12:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've seen moons like that a million times in media. The Kirby series, for example. Mistake or intention, it's just a pretty shape in the sky. :|
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2010-08-17, 01:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
I'm pretty sure that a giant mass of rock large enough to form into a sphere under it's own gravity that actively effects the planet it orbist and has been a center of many myths and also a center of many calendars is more than "just a shape", but yeah, sure.
EDIT: And Kirby's about a sentient pink puffball that can easily swallow being larger than he is to steal their powers and lives on a star-shaped planet with a penguin with a mallet. Yeah, Kirby is exactly where you go for astronomical accuracy.Last edited by Maximum Zersk; 2010-08-17 at 01:09 AM.
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2010-08-17, 05:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-17, 05:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-17, 11:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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So.... it ISN'T a space station?
I just looked at it and thought "Big desert moon. Good moon for looking at from a secluded balcony during a fancy state party."
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2010-08-17, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-18, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
No, it's not the moon. It's a cookie someone took a bite out of.
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2010-08-18, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
I suppose I should point out that since the disc of the nearer body is significantly smaller than the further one, it's more properly called a transit than an eclipse.
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2010-08-18, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-18, 09:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
Even when the moon is far enough away, that it will "transit" the sun rather than eclipse it completely, it's still called an eclipse- an annular eclipse.
Hmm- if the "moon" was actually close in size to the OoTS world, and the OoTS world was the eclipsing body, wouldn't the "shadow" cast on the "moon" be slightly smaller than the moon itself?
Hence, you could have an "annular lunar eclipse".Marut-2 Avatar by Serpentine
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2010-08-18, 12:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-18, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Is there an eclipse occurring?
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