Can you bear the beauty? It's another week's worth of random cephalopod imagery.
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I happened to be visiting ESA's page, and found its image of the week, which is Rotterdam. So I thought I'd look at googles version and - its much better. And of course you can scroll in to far better detail.
And conveniently embed it here, so lets have a play:
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I think the three octopodes on the line are just catchin' some rays. Man. Admiring the view and such. Like bird on a telephone wire.
I love that lamp in the first picture.
And now I want an octo-cat for a pet, too. Surely, there's a creationist somewhere researching that particular hybrid?
Just (under?) a week to cephalopodmas now. I thought it might be useful to have some repeating cephalopod patterns for paper, fabric or computer screen backdrops and website pages. An octopod was the easiest to do with my existing software. So I made a few sizes in basic pale (for black lettering on top) and dark (for white lettering) shades of grey. Though anyone with suitable software can re-tint them however they want.
The names are coded W, for whiter shades of pale and K, for inky blacK (with B already being taken for blue!) and pixel sizes of 48, 64, 72, 80 and 96. Eg:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/repeat/xy/octopod_W48.gif
I also uploaded a basic black and white line version in case anyone really does want to try and print some octopod paper or mess with the design themselves. It's only 300 pixels each way, but that's very large on-screen while being ridiculously small on most modern printer resolutions:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/octopod_.gif
Where's the Cafe in the "Flickr" photo?
It is brilliant!
Has anyone read the ?
and so on. It's a little hard to understand but 'way better than my Japanese.
Has anyone read the description that accompanies the squid drive?
and so on. It's a little hard to understand but 'way better than my Japanese.
Continuing with the same repeat pattern, here's a 600px version of the sort of thing you'd need to print some cephalopodmas paper or fabric:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/octopod_X600…
Here's how a cephalopodmas card of the design might turn out:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/card.gif
Anyone who happens to be browsing this, DON'T pass up that lineart work by SEF. It's surprisingly beautiful tiled across my desktop!
Thanks SEF, it is beautifully entrancing. :)