for reference/inspiration

[inkydigit]

yosemite
x res...extreme resolution...
for reference/inspiration

http://www.xrez.com/divingboard_giga.html

[Sethren]

That looks like a better day then when i went. Heck of a nice photo stitch job.   

[rcallicotte]

Great for both!  Thank you.

[Will]

they always have really cool images there.

[adit]

Thanks a lot! That is some high quality inspiration indeed.

In case anyone's lost on the site, here's the gallery with more of the stuff:

http://www.xrez.com/gallery/xRez_gallery.html

[moodflow]

Wierd!  That half-dome shot looks to have less than 360 degrees, even though its seamless and we know there are 360 degrees there...   

[domdib]

To see an amazing application of Silverlight DeepZoom by the same people, go to http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/new/XRez%20Xtreme%20Pano/index.html Mind-blowing!

(You have to have Silverlight installed, but believe me, it's worth it!)

[rcallicotte]

Thanks.  This is cool.

[Confusoid]

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tornado/images/tor_formation_lg.jpg
http://www.tetonat.com/Gallery/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3713
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Supercell02.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/herbe_nelson/443555393/sizes/l/

[Mohawk20]

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tornado/images/tor_formation_lg.jpg
http://www.tetonat.com/Gallery/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3713
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Supercell02.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/herbe_nelson/443555393/sizes/l/

Great images and info, but are you sure you posted this in the right thread?

[Confusoid]

Well the technical illustrations perhaps would give some idea of how to shape terragen 2's clouds to try and re-create some of the patterns of a super cell storm.   

[Mohawk20]

Ah, right, sorry. Since the first post was about canyons, I forgot to notice that the topic is inspiration and reference...

In that light, great find, and I'm sure Frank B could do wonders with it 

[Confusoid]

That i have no doubt about Frank B.       

[FrankB]

thanks

... the second image is actually relatively easy to do with the latest incarnation of the cumulus pack.
Of course, you need two cloud layers to do it, one for the anvil, one for the billowry cumulonimbus.

Cheers,
Frank

PS: will be awhie before we can mimc the photo from the last link, with regards to the lighting of the clouds.

[Tangled-Universe]

thanks

... the second image is actually relatively easy to do with the latest incarnation of the cumulus pack.
Of course, you need two cloud layers to do it, one for the anvil, one for the billowry cumulonimbus.

Cheers,
Frank

PS: will be awhie before we can mimc the photo from the last link, with regards to the lighting of the clouds.

Absolutely, with (lots of) effort you can reproduce some of these principles. Hint Frank

The last one isn't possible yet, because TG's GI algorithm isn't able to light clouds by lightbounces from other clouds. If I remember correctly Matt said once that there isn't any renderer yet which is capable of doing this (accurately).