Looks like mfx gone wild... 

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/13/shooting-high-res-thermal-photos-of-iceland-to-show-nature-at-work/?q=5

The color ranges do fit the Q1 palette so much IMO.
Very inspiring.
HNY 

https://imgur.com/gallery/WcI15oi

Check out the video in the comments on how the excavators moved - they actually walked.

(I'm sure this is lifted from some actual source but it's a nice overview.) 

 

The Well
The Drawbridge 

"Top 100 3D Renders from the Internet's Largest CG Challenge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBs9l8jS6Q

It was a contest to create a 3D clip based on a simple animation as a starting point. These were the top entries. It's pretty cool, lots of neat sci fi and fantasy environments and characters on display. 

A lot of those were pretty incredible. The toothpaste one had me cracking up. I loved the ones with enormous backgrounds and monsters. I wish that more games incorporated that sense of scale. 

Well, since a spammer bumped the thread, here's a cool photo.

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1496247749665-49cf5b1022e9?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2346&q=80 

https://zoomquilt.org/ 

That is kinda neat.... but also gives me an idea for a game. Imagine each of those nested pictures as a "locations" in a point-and-click adventure game, and the only way to travel between "locations" is to zoom in or out to the next one. 

Nice concept, I'd play the hell out of that! 

First "Atlantis" games had this concept. 

I think I avoided Atlantis because it looked a bit too much like Myst, which bored the hell out of me in the 90's. I'd love to see the concept used in more of a LucasArts/Sierra style adventure though. 

This is everything a Quake map should be:

- unsettling/unfamiliar location
- strong use of light and shadow
- brown

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/qzdab2/inside_a_locke_hill_cello_circa_1780/ 

and dirt and dusty! 

Plaza in front of the central train station in Sofia, Bulgaria:

https://i.redd.it/fpmy576xxu681.jpg

Street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7112226,23.3201303,3a,75y,13.78h,92.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skNZUfLYBTHb0mY123HcNew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en 

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/roman-robroek-chisea/ 

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/936331739075313704/994982151827226636/image0.jpg 

https://www.artmajeur.com/fr/veis2011/artworks/8537092/13-jpg 

https://imgur.com/a/pJF2ISV 

This artist draws lots of spaceships, mostly in the "star wars meets robotech" style. Also has some funny ones where it's just a household object (like a potato peeler) redrawn as a spaceship.

https://www.artstation.com/spacegooose