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How to cheese a tree, a quick tutorial to low-effort trees. :D

1: random colour shapes

2: more colours. 

3: whatever you wanna do, paint-splatters, details, glitter, everything goes!

4: draw branches and trunk into the shapes

Done.

this meme but its just horikashi

Dragons in the modern world I

Total Solar Eclipse l April 2024 l U.S. & Canada

Cr. Deran Hall l Rami Ammoun(236) l GabeWasylko l REUTERS l KendallRust l Joshua Intini l Alfredo Juárez l KuzcoKhanda

It is a field of knowledge proposed by me, defined as the study of nature in all its expressions, but from the point of view of alternative non-real possibilities. My background is in ecological economics, but I started to have broader interests that encompass other fields of knowledge. However, instead of an interest in traditional knowledge, I started to study fantastic facts and concepts (fantasy). It is not (only) a literary endeavor, but an attempt to create a new (!?) realm of knowledge aside mathematics, philosophy, and science. I will bring up some themes that can be raised as being of interest to fantastic natural history. By scope or complexity, from mathematics to politics, to aesthetics and art.

A @nasa postou essa foto hoje, da emissão de raios gama detectada pelo satélite SWIFT, que é um telescópio espacial para raios gama. Uma das coisas mais impressionantes sobre esse evento é que teve origem numa provável explosão estelar que ocorreu a cerca de 2 bilhões de anos luz de distância (também a cerca de 2 bilhões anos atrás). Apesar dessa distância e do tempo percorridos, que reduziram sua intensidade antes de chegar à Terra, o evento foi tão brilhante, tão energético, que saturou sensores de vários satélites e detectores e ionizou a atmosfera de nosso planeta. Imaginem o que teria ocorrido se um evento desses tivesse ocorrido mais próximo do sistema solar.

Who can say that started a totally new field of study (even if it is a fantasy, literally)?

academia.edu

What is Fantastic Natural History?

Fantastic Natural History (Historia Naturalis Phantastica) is a proposal for a field of knowledge that involves the study of nature in a bro

what really motivates people is passion

From one simple problem about coloring maps– a problem with hardly any relevance to actual cartographers– came over a century’s worth of passion from mathematicians and philosophers alike. They built on each others’ discoveries and inspired each other to keep searching. It took every single new idea and piece of technology up until the moment it was finally solved in order to conquer, all for a theorem with next to no practical application.

Mathematics is not worthwhile only insofar as its use in solving real-world problems. The story of the four-color theorem is a story not of necessity, but of desire. It is a story of the way that the fundamental human drive to understand can tie people together across time. De Morgan’s peers were not interested in the four-color theorem, but Kempe was. Heawood was. Wernicke, Birkhoff, Heesch, Haken, Appel, and dozens of other mathematicians who devoted their time to solving this puzzle, were all interested. There was no competition, nor any prize to be won, from solving the four-color problem. This century of work was motivated by people who wanted it. Mathematics is, above all else, a tapestry woven from the stories of people like them.

We are all stardust (Carl Sagan).

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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