oops. typo. cheer, not chear. (I clicked the post message rather than preview message button)

Thanks, Catlin. Stefano: three times through? You chear my heart. Really. I mean, I re-read Jane Austen and A.S. Byatt and all, but it's nice to be on the other end of that. Speaking of getting out and observing the great outdoors, I was riding shotgun in a car traveling from Las Vegas home to LA area with laptop. The basin-and-ranges of the Mohave are an inspiration, and I finally got a round tuit and worked on a basin-range image. I was highly inspired by all the alluvial fans in Death Valley, and considered how to Bryce them. There was an amazing place called Titus Canyon, a slot canyon which you can glimpse here and here. I hiked into it and took dozens of reference fotos (alas for gray overcast skies, resulting in lower contrast images). Also took pix of tons of dried mudcracks with Bryce reference material in mind. Will I Bryce from memories of my trip? I'd like to... but who knows when that will happen?

P.S. I went to Death Valley a week and a half ago. What an amazing place that is! In view of the tallest point of the lower 48 united states and with the lowest point of the western hemisphere. Dry, dry dry (well, except for after the rain, so it was actually a little wet and cloudy) with amazing geology. (see a picture taken from Dante's View here.) I want to start an alluvial fan club! Only gneiss people can join. You know, the kinda people that don't give you any schist! ; )

Hee! This is just to let you know that Scott did as he said he would. Thanks Scott, and thanks--and you're welcome-- Catlin.

Reminds me that I've got some in-development materials re: the DTE (pun unintended) that I plan to make available (pdf document, extremely reasonable cost) when I get a visit from The Great Round Tuit.

(namely: visual chart showing all the noise appearances, grouped with like noises, and shown in multiple octave versions. It's been helpful to me. I was working on a project for a city building, and I thought, I know there's a way to make randomly lit office building "rooms" in the DTE... but how? but how? A little look through my chart led me to the AHA insight that led to the city light look.)

Cheers and happy DTE tinkering,

Susan

And there are updates available on Susan's website as well which cover 4.1 and perhaps beyond. or rather, there will be, once she gets around to making that site be something more than vaporware. After being on the road for 5 weeks getting that damn book outta my hair, I've gone through most of the mail that arrived in my absence, I can nearly see the surface of my dining table again, and I've paid all the bills but the second speeding ticket I got on the road.... so I'm just about through with the backlog of stuff that keeps me from working on the website. Wooops! A holiday's coming up! Well, really, truly, I do mean to get a round tuit very soon! :)