Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish dropout bohemian.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Solar system graphic
This is a very impressive graphic showing the solar system. It's a big download for an image (20MB), and very, very long horizontally (30,000 pixels!), so it looks odd in the browser until you zoom in on it.
Here's a detail:
However...I was able to download the file from Wikipedia, though Windows picture viewer refused to show it at full resolution. ACDSee 8 had no such issues :-)
So, cool pic, though it seems to depict the Sun as some powerful monster trying to melt Mercury and Venus :-)
Like Bruce, I also loved seeing Stanley Kubrick's space station, which looks so much like the one we have now in 2011. Not!
4 comments:
This reminds me of the imagery in 'The Tree of Life.' Keep forgetting to mention it. I think you might enjoy it, Eo.
I like the space station. I think it is the one from "2001 A Space Odyssey"
I get an error when I try to see it; says the "image couldn't be displayed because it contains errors".
:-(
However...I was able to download the file from Wikipedia, though Windows picture viewer refused to show it at full resolution. ACDSee 8 had no such issues :-)
So, cool pic, though it seems to depict the Sun as some powerful monster trying to melt Mercury and Venus :-)
Like Bruce, I also loved seeing Stanley Kubrick's space station, which looks so much like the one we have now in 2011. Not!
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