Wonderful image, thanks for sharing this...

SOHO is a good source for fantastic (realtime and archive) pictures from our home star :)

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Perfect! Thanks so much for your help  :-)

TheBryster will have modify the upload file boxes so the next time there will be no or less confusion, eh?

Please tell me he's doing that right now... all upload boxes are gone :woot:

..calm down Benny... try it again later

...unbelievable, this is the worst thing that can happen to an artist, I truely feel with you! I'll keep my fingers crossed for that as most as possible will reappear, best all drives during a crackdown, after 13 years, much should be scattered across the net and friends?

A hypothetic civilization, mastering the "holy grail" of space engineering - interstellar travel - must be quite advanced, so much more advanced in comparison to our current state, that we would appear like a Neandertal...

Such developements of civilizations proceed over an extremely long timespan, and I am deeply convinced - proven by history until the current day - that a civilization whos ethics and goals are predicated on religious ideas cannot last such long, with the advancing of technology they will either extinct themselves or drop such irrational ideas from the bronze age.

*With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg - Nobel laureate 1979*

Oh and please never mix up science and religion, individual scientists might glue to some theories as if they were dogmas, maybe because they spent their whole life proving them, but a true scientist and science collectively MUST and WILL abandon a beloved theory if there is a conclusive counter evidence...  Relgion won't and can't do that for they are self-contained and their architecture disallows any prove or disprove.

Mmmh...

I uploaded the files again, this time with an empty (small) Brycefile to dodge the errormessage but this came up:

The file you uploaded was not a valid file type or exceeded the size limits. Your entry was saved without the file(s), and will be reviewed shortly.

Hopefully the images found their way to the server.

Original file: 1024x600 - 224 kB
Thumb: 100x100 - 5,94 kB

Yeah thanks, just found them :biggrin:

I hope my upload works, it gave me an error message for not including the file...

Ultimately an extremely fancy theme ;)

I can hardly remember my very first Bryce image back in 97... sure must have been a sphere :biggrin: At the end of that first night I managed to render a scene with a submarine (made out of spheres  ) emerging between icebergs..

Let's see if I'm still familiar with spheres.

Children are something wonderful and so I wish you and the parents my best wishes :)

:) I've been away from Renderosity but now back for some days. My problem ist, that I'm currently stuck into too many forums, but I'm trying to become more active here, for I love this community :)

Thanks a lot! It worked :)

One more question I'm not sure... when I remember that right it's okay to post a contest image, true?

skiwillgee,

your thoughts about such a Dyson sphere are very well thought, most of the problems you describe lead ultimately to the conclusion that such constructions can't exist even the most optimistic futurists are mostly sure about that,  just thinking about the need of material!

Let me quote from one of my favourite books, 'Entering space - Creating a spacefaring Civilization' from Dr. Robert Zubrin what he tells about Dyson spheres:

For example, if such a "Dyson sphere" were built in our solar system the shell radius would be about 1 AU (astronomical unit, 150 mio km, earth-sun distance) and the inner surface would therefore have an area of 283 billion square kilometers. This is about 553 million times the surface of the  Earth. If such spheres existed, they would radiate strongly in the infrared. Ergo, the search fpr advanced extraterrestial civilizations might be conducted by looking for such spheres. To date, no Dyson spheres have been observed - I'm not suprised. Dyson spheres are impractical. The 1-AU sphere described in the previos paragraph, if given a shell just 1meter thick, would require the mass from 260 disassembled Earths to build (and 1 meter is much too thin for it to hold together).
[...]
Moreover, while advertising a trmendous nominal surface area, most of the inner surface would really be useless for habitation because, except near the equator, where the rotation of the sphere could suplly outward-pointing centrifugal force, the gravity vector almost everywhere on its surface would point in rather invonvenient directions. As a result, there could be no air any significant distance from the equator. Terraforming the rest of the sphere would be impossible, since no matter how many air you made, it would all either flow to the equator or flow to the sun.

End of quote

:) Hope this helped a bit...

However, it's still a nice element of scifi stories ;)

Benny / lordgoron

Hi bobby,

thanks a lot, I'll send you a new thumb and the original image :)

Benny/lordgoron

Ooops,

I had some trouble with my contest image... The thumb was not accepted, sorry I only participated once and can't remember the specs :) What file am I supposed to upoad?! I just chose the same as imagefile, was this right? Could I still upload a thumb with the correct dimensions?

Sorry again

Benny / lordgoron

Err.. yes it works (kind of)... So working telescopes to magnify objects can be made in Bryce ;)

First is with one lense, the second with a second lens...