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Stained Glass (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We really should stop killing dragonflies for usage in the stained glass industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like the intro of a old TV superhero series, it just needs a narrator, then a small montage with music.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or the intro to the How It's Made episode on mass produced dragonflies

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

And at one time were 3ft across.... wingtip to wingtip

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

100? Let's pump those numbers up my lovelies!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the Appalachian mountains are even older. Older than trees and sharks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And sharks are older then the rings of Saturn.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

I get a metric fuckton of them during the rainy season. Swarms of dragonflies. Needless to say, I do not have a mosquito problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

#badtopology

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Turns out when you optimize something for millennia, the truly optimal solution is not a simple grid. That picture is essentially a proof that engineering will always be needed. Because any final solution is complex. Even if it's parts are trivial.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well the wing itself isn't supposed to deform so we're good! :P

Seriously funny seeing this after trying repeatedly to retopologize simple objects, but making myself stick to quads to build the skills and "poly-perception"...It's truly maddening and un-fun lol.

Thanks for linking that site further down, by the way. :D

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Dragonflies are a speed 13 unit that you can theoretically build on day 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have seena grand total of two on my property this year

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that more or less than normal?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dunno. Their appearance coincided with all the rain we had back then so that is probably a factor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

this is not stained class

had me fooled!

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