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Chromattix — Watching the suns go down
Published: 2009-06-09 06:41:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 51706; Favourites: 1583; Downloads: 0
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This is that "something much more interesting" thing I said I was going to make based on what I learned from =nukeation 's Vue video tutorial - the raw results of which can be seen in my Procedural Vue terrain deviation.Been wanting to illustrate a binary sunset scene for a long time. For the un-educated - a Binary system is where there's two stars or "suns" in the center of a solar system instead of one
these "double stars" are surprisingly more common than single stars like our own Sun. Often both stars will be a similar size and colour/temperature, but to make this more interesting, we see a larger but cooler/dimmer red star accompanied by a brighter, hotter white one...The collective heat from two suns would probably make this planet very hot! But listening to science alone can really limit one's creativity - so I still included a civilisation, water and some really odd-looking foreign plants too for art's sake 
Well as stated already, this started out as a rather basic Vue scene. I saved time by recycling the same terrain for the landscape that I made after watching the tutorial - I also was able to use some sci-fi building models I made last year too. All this put under a a different lighting/atmosphere setting provided a very different base for me to matte-paint over (this is one of the few deviations I have that I think could be passed off as being a matte-painting
)Artwork is made and copyrighted by me and therfore should not appear on any other site or gallery without permission from me
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hahaha no need... just set it as wallpaper on my PC... its centered in the screen... looks good this way ^^
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Maaan this is beautiful!
I really wanna use it as my desktop background but its a little small for my 1920x1200 res...
You should really consider doing some high res wallpaper versions of your artwork, I want to displayyyyy them. xD
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Thankyou! I'm afraid I stopped offering wallpaper-sized artworks ages ago since too many people and websites were taking my pictures for their own benifit 
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That's really a shame, I guess I'll have to stick to stretched out pixelated ones then. D=
Oh well, somebody always has to ruin it for the rest of us I guess.
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Two suns so close together, I can't fathom..
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Haha the plants are ODD indeed! with their bushy sesame-street-like hair.
omg I'm one of them un-educated people *reads the info in your comment*
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I never would have thought of the trees like that in my wildest dreams 
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Ahh I like those icons! they look like fishies in the sea~
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Wow, this is pretty amazing. Spectacular Scene!
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very cool indeed! ^^ I like all of it, lighting, atmosphere and design, just a great scene!
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Wonderful! Looks fantastic!
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This is beautiful <3
Youve done an excellent job on it
If you ever find somewhere like that let me know 
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There is a place like this...right here 
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At first the two suns looked odd... (im sure you tilted your head a little during the process 
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When it comes to showing the Sun at sunset - a very simple glowing disk is often all you need for realism
Hmm, I guess one building does look a bit Egyptian-ish, but in case you were referring to the foreground elements - those odd vase-like shapes are the trunks of some odd alien trees
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hah yeh! sometimes the simplest techniques make for the best.
and yeh i was talkin about the plants
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Yeah,really interesting these two stars!
It's a common thing in the other solar systems
well done Matthew
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I was shocked when I realised that binary stars were as common, if not - more common than single stars...Though I can imagine life would be hard on them
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Indeed!
Binary systems are really very common in our Universe
(but we can have also triple and multiple star systems 
Usually binary systems gravitate around a centre called Center of mass
If these two stars are too close(gravitationally)
there could be a transfer of mass from a star
to another causing a deformation of the two with consequent gas flow
Astronomers cannot observe directly,with a telescope I mean,
the presence of planets on other systems cause they're too distant
you know that the star closer to us is Proxima Centauri
well,it is distant "only" 4 light years and this means that is impossible to observe a planet
the only way to find the presence of a planet,but only of big dimensions like our Jupiter,
is with hard measurement like the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram(to find if
there are traces of chimical elements that can prove the existence of a planet)
well,I won't be too long but a planet with two stars can be possible
cause maybe the amount of the heat of the two stars
can be the same of our star,the Sun
It'd be interesting to observe a mutual eclipse of the two stars 
Sorry for this long reply,but when it's time to talk of Astronomy,I go crazy
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Oh yeah, I did a scene where one star is pulling the other's gas towards it like you said a while ago last year
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Oh yeah,I remember that work
your works are always well done
keep it up!
and yes,actually it's a hard way to find the presence of a planet
but no worries!Astronomers know very well their own work
and if they find a big planet,it's almost sure they'll find a whole system of planets
about Earth-like worlds you'd consider this:
we have the propensity to think that our life
is the only possible in the Universe,a sorta of Ptolemaic life
I mean a life with oxygen and water and all the stuff
but this is not true,we can have infinite different kind of lives
for example we have form of bacterias that can resist in a sea of marsh gas
and at the same time they can live on our Earth
we are not at the centre of all,we must consider also other existences
the famous aliens! ha ha ha 
we'd open our minds...
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Exquisite, as always. Your art never fails to draw me into your world, and there I linger with no regrets. This rather reminds me of Tattooine, though I'm relatively certain that world has no water. Just wind and dust. LOL.
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Thankyou, glad I could evoke that mood in ya
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Yeah. That never fails to evoke a certain mood either. A painful longing. I think I know how he feels. Anyway, it always makes me smile in delight when I see you've posted something new.
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This is beautiful =]
I love that light that seems to be coming from the building into the sky, and the trees/greenery at the foreground of the scene
The civiliZation just looks badass, a futuristic flow to it =]
But yes, to me, amazing piece =]
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Thankyou, that light from the building was just made up on impulse...wasn't intended at first, but some incorrect lighting I painted on it and was too lazy to change eventually developed into a significant part 
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Mmm
And civilizations is spelled with a z, not s
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When I stare directly into the middle of it, I feel like I'm actually there. Now that's some talent.
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Thanks a lot! that's exactly the effect I wanted...looked even more effective up close too, but for obvious reasons, I had to limit how big people here could get it 
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Priteeboy writes: "But listening to science alone can really limit one's creativity..."
For the most part, at least. Only paying attention to part of the science behind something can create some interesting ideas. For instance, when studying chromosomal genetics in school, and noticing some of the more interesting and unique cases of genetics out there (such as how there's SO MUCH variety in the dog species, and the unique cases of hybrids, such as the mule and the very real and very big liger ) expanded my ideas for designing creatures. Of course, I had to conveniently ignore a few things, such as the fact that hybrids are often sterile.
The convenient thing about genetics is you can explain everything you come up with with the answer "It's all in the genes."
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Oh yeah, I get what you mean. In some of my other pics I do restrict myself to only what could possibly happen and try to come up with the best I can within reason
Oh, I never would have guessed it was possible to create a Liger - forgive me for laughing at the other hybrid's name - Tigon
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Excellent! Perfect in every way!
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wow! that's simply breathtaking! it must be an awesome sight to have 2 suns setting at the horizon... somehow i can imagine myself standing at the shore and feeling the humid warm breeze and the subtle heat from the suns..
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My sentinents exactly
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bravo! one of your best works so far!
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Very Awe inspiring. thank you for not listening to the hard science.
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Lol, in some cases I did - but yeah, if I obeyed the rules fully - this planet would just be a dull o'l rock
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Its a beautiful rendering, can't wait to see more of your artwork.I'm all about bucking the system
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more cool alien plants and stuff, nice
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And there will be more to come...I have dozens of alien plant ideas that I'll pace out over time
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i look forward to seeing these projects come to bloom
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