August/September 2012 Wallpaper
Shaenon: I’ve wanted to do an illustration of Victorian Moustachio for a while, and what better format than a stereoscope card?
As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, I will send you a link to the wallpaper. Each wallpaper acomes in two different aspect ratios (regular screen and widescreen) to fit most computer monitors, and in both Mac-friendly and PC-friendly orientations. Here’s the wallpaper page.
And as a bonus, your donation will also get you this classic wallpaper:
Channing: I don’t know about you, but I totally want to see more stereographic views of questionable science. Also, boss rendition of the Crystal Palace interior!
Dude! We NEED a “Please stop moving my silliness benchmark” shirt!!
(TUNE: “Carry On Wayward Son”, Kansas)
[CHORUS]
Stereography is fun!
When you use two pictures ‘stead of one!
See the gents and ladies run!
It’s a 3-D spree!
If you wish to make a small contribution,
You’ll receive this pic in high resolution!
See the Marvel Mechanistic,
Steaming at the seams!
It’s a scene from old Victorian Britain
Where the gentlefolk were trampled and smitten!
To me, it seems so realistic …
I can hear their screams!
[repeat CHORUS]
So… is this like an involuntary reflex for you or something?
I checked. It’s not a real stereogram (which could be reasonably simulated in photoshop)
I shifted the images enough to create a slight stereogram effect, but it’d only look really 3-D if I’d done the foreground and background on separate layers so I could create two different perspectives. Which I didn’t.
Bad cartoonist! No national syndication for you!
Good news! M is the prototype for Clamps.
But he has treads! Didn’t he have legs that were taken away after this attack?
I saw this kitty this morning and immediately thought that Dr. Lee might have experimented on cats before she created Unity.
http://www.geekologie.com/2012/08/pretty-kitty-chimera-cat-is-its-own-frat.php
Sorry, don’t know how to insert links.
I believe that if you check, you’ll find that pretty much all cats are examples of ‘chimerism’ (which is not quite the same) but is still pretty cool.
Cat’s DNA is probably Dog’s fault.
Would it be churlish to point out that the two images are exactly the same? Looking at them stereoscopically gives a flat picture.
( iPads are great for stereoscopic pictures: you can hold the iPad as close to you nose as you can focus, then pinch-to-zoom to give just the right distance between the pictures.)