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When I was young I lived on the edge of a small town in the dark flat fens. Every cloudless night, after the last trace of the sun faded and the street-lights went out, the huge sky blazed with the fire of a billion suns. Well, that's how it seemed. In reality I could only see a few thousand, but the stars entered my soul and have dwelt there ever since.
I now live in London, where the light we make is never turned off and nature is overwhelmed. I step out to my balcony, turn my face to the sky, and see... almost nothing. Sometimes the Moon, rarely Venus, never the stars. How fortunate I am to have my dreams, where I see the stars from space, picking out clusters of galaxies with the ease of the Hubble telescope.
Now, thanks to my love of fractals, and with the help of the Apophysis software, I can create my own skies filled with ancient galaxies and nascent stars. It isn't much, but it will have to suffice until I can return to the endless living skies of my youth.
Created and rendered with Apophysis 2.08 3D
I now live in London, where the light we make is never turned off and nature is overwhelmed. I step out to my balcony, turn my face to the sky, and see... almost nothing. Sometimes the Moon, rarely Venus, never the stars. How fortunate I am to have my dreams, where I see the stars from space, picking out clusters of galaxies with the ease of the Hubble telescope.
Now, thanks to my love of fractals, and with the help of the Apophysis software, I can create my own skies filled with ancient galaxies and nascent stars. It isn't much, but it will have to suffice until I can return to the endless living skies of my youth.
Created and rendered with Apophysis 2.08 3D
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Very awesome render of the natural night lights!
I grew up in a small farm town in the northern valley of California, there weren't more than a couple thousand people in my small rural town ^_^ Every night during the summer, Dad and I would wander into the backyard and just kick back in our outdoor chairs and stare at the stars for hours! It was warm enough at night, that we could be out there in a tshirt and shorts, and not feel the slightest bit cool.
We had to move to a larger city, (Fresno...one of the largest in California ...ew) due to mom's new job. I actually COUNTED the stars I could see at night there...7....if it had rained the day before...maybe 15...
Once I graduated high school (2001), I found the furthest from that area of California I could get to that had a college with dorms...found me the awesome coast line of the farthest North possible within the state lines (school costs nearly 3x more if you cross state borders). I haven't left this area since then! Oceans, Redwood forests and so many stars that the Milky Way often appears to be almost a solid frothy white during the summer!
I grew up in a small farm town in the northern valley of California, there weren't more than a couple thousand people in my small rural town ^_^ Every night during the summer, Dad and I would wander into the backyard and just kick back in our outdoor chairs and stare at the stars for hours! It was warm enough at night, that we could be out there in a tshirt and shorts, and not feel the slightest bit cool.
We had to move to a larger city, (Fresno...one of the largest in California ...ew) due to mom's new job. I actually COUNTED the stars I could see at night there...7....if it had rained the day before...maybe 15...
Once I graduated high school (2001), I found the furthest from that area of California I could get to that had a college with dorms...found me the awesome coast line of the farthest North possible within the state lines (school costs nearly 3x more if you cross state borders). I haven't left this area since then! Oceans, Redwood forests and so many stars that the Milky Way often appears to be almost a solid frothy white during the summer!