#gaea — Public Fediverse posts

Just read that John Varley, who I've long considered my favourite sci-fi author, died a few days ago. His early output - the Gaea trilogy and early Eight Worlds stuff, up to and including Steel Beach (1992) - was incredible. He wrote slowly after that, but it was all quite good.

If you have never read Varley, give him a shot.

Edit: typo fix

#Varley #JohnVarley #SciFi #SF #ScienceFiction #EightWorlds #Gaea #author

Une tribune du monde de la #litteraturejeunesse qui. S'oppose #genocide de #gaea #Palestine
https://actualitte.com/article/126277/tribunes/le-monde-du-livre-jeunesse-se-fait-l-echo-d-une-tribune-parue-en-angleterre-pour-la-palestine

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Constantly think of the Universe as one living creature, embracing one being and one soul; how all is absorbed into the one consciousness of this living creature; how it compasses all things with a single purpose, and how all things work together to cause all that comes to pass, and their wonderful web and texture.
 
[Ὡς ἓν ζῷον τὸν κόσμον, μίαν οὐσίαν καὶ ψυχὴν μίαν ἐπέχον, συνεχῶς ἐπινοεῖν καὶ πῶς εἰς αἴσθησιν μίαν τὴν τούτου πάντα ἀναδίδοται καὶ πῶς ὁρμῇ μιᾷ πάντα πράσσει καὶ πῶς πάντα πάντων τῶν γινομένων συναίτια καὶ οἵα τις ἡ σύννησις καὶ συμμήρυσις.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 40 (4.40) (AD 161-180) [tr. Farquharson (1944)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2677…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #animism #circleoflife #gaea #cosmos #life #pantheism #unity #universe

Ah, the latest #Gaea software update finally includes some example scenes to play with as a quickstart.

Here's a lovely one, with complex debris on a slope.

The Yosemite mountain tops video looks as if it was a tech demo for terrain generation in Houdini or #Gaea. The way the snow cover looks like a procedural texture... the way the forest looks artificially sparse as if they had to keep the poly count down for a realtime demo...

What an incredible landscape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KSGtGg_ug

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7!

Saturn from Rhea, inspired by Chesley Bonestell. Perhaps the recent work I'm most pleased with.

Terrain made in #Gaea, Render and everythingf else in #Lightwave3d

Mucking about with #Gaea, decent towards a battered cratered surface.

I think I'm getting the hang of battered craters in #gaea
(Screenshot not finished render)

I'm working on trying to get the very roughly spherical official Psyche mesh into 2d for processing in #Gaea, then back onto a sphere again.

Getting there...

(Gaea will help me make nice textures that follow the geology, and let me process it with erosion)

There's a nasty seam I'm hiding around the back...

Latest efforts at a credible lunar landscape using real data fed into #Gaea.

It feels like I'm getting there!

WIP / Test, processing lunar data in #Gaea

Going along with my game demo teaser yesterday, just posted a quick tutorial showing how I made the landscape for the demo using quadspinner's #gaea The software is tons of fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0BKDl4fD0 #scifi #gamedev #3dmodeling

#Gaea just released a new update. It's a #Godot 4 addon that makes proc-gen of levels much easier!

https://github.com/BenjaTK/Gaea

#godotengine

📬 Odyssey Remake 2023: Blender transportiert eine der besten Demos in die Gegenwart
#Demoszene #Interviews #Alcatraz #AlexanderScheel #Blender #Gaea #JSplacement #Krita #Odyssey #Terresculptor https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/interviews/odyssey-remake-2023-blender-transportiert-eine-der-besten-demos-in-die-gegenwart-272626.html

"Mother Rune"
She is the heart of the forest, caretaker of all that is green & good in the world.

(digital - procreate)

#art #artist #fantasy #fantasyart #mothernature #gaea #nature #lineart #meditation #spirituality #energy #psychedelic #psychedelicart #fantasyartist #lineart #darkart #procreate #digitalart #arcanecluster #mastoart #mastoartist

@mauro Check out the Vimeo page. It has links to 90hrs of making of using #UnrealEngine #Zbrush #Gaea #SpeedTree #MarvelousDesigner to name a few.
Very interesting, if you have the time.
https://vimeo.com/771849423

Another #Gaea terrain. I've never really liked the volcano in the quick start menu, so I decided to improve it.

A terrain I modified in #Gaea. This is one of the built-in quick start terrains, which I've colorized by combining a pair of SatMaps nodes, one from the Depth output of the Lakes node via an Fx node set to Equalize, the other from the Output via an unaltered Fx node. The effect was to turn the lakes into muddy sloughs, and the higher elevations into grassy ridges.

Crossposting this to my Pixelfed account until I can figure some interoperability between both tools.

#Quadspinner #Gaea

Here's another terrain generated in #Gaea. This one only uses four nodes:
- a Crater field with high scale & depth, but low density
- an Erosion node with the Gentle Downcutting preset
- an Fx node from the Deposit output with the Eq effect
- a SatMaps node with map 0023 under Sandy

#Quadspinner #Gaea