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The Micro-Dragonfly Array – Progress
Well the new 2600MC CMOS camera from First Light Optics arrived, it has been fired up, and all is well! Also the USB Canon lens focuser manufactured by Astromechanics and distributed by Ali Express also arrived. At first I didn’t … Continue reading
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Fakirs!
Dad captured this group of Fakirs/Holy men on his travels. Once again we have the original sepia print at the top, followed by the Grok cleaned-up and colourised print, followed by the amazing Grok animation.
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Beautiful Downtown Kabul
This is a very interesting image taken by Dad in WWI in beautiful downtown Kabul. I turned the original first image above into a B&W image (from the sepia print) using Photoshop. I wondered why the two locals were giving … Continue reading
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Wood-Collector and his Missus
More from Dad’s WWI plate photography in the Himalayan foothills, this time we have a wood-collector and his Missus, who seems to be a leaf collector. The first original sepia print was colourised and cleaned up by Grok, and then … Continue reading
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That’s How it Was.
Possibly bordering on the politically incorrect, but that’s how it was in those days! This is again a Grok cleaned up and colourised version of one of Dad’s WWI sepia prints, together with the Grok animation. This time we have … Continue reading
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Wood Collector
This is another one of Dad’s WWI images from the Himalayan foothills. The first image is the Grok colourised and cleaned up version of the original sepia print showing a wood-collector. The video below the still image was created by … Continue reading
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ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus and the ANET A6 Both Running in Parallel
Today is the first day I have had the ELEGOO Neptune 4 Plus and the tiny (in comparison) ANET A6 printing at the same time. The Neptune is print out (yet another) Sierpinski pyramid, and the A6 is having a … Continue reading
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A 122-hour and 33-minute 3D Print
And here, just finished, is a 122-hour and 33-minute 3D print of a 275mm diameter Mandelbulb on an ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus 3D printer complete with all the support structure. The printer performed flawlessly over the 5 days. The only … Continue reading
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Mandelbulb Finishing Date
Having now reached the age where I am unable to count to five – the Mandelbulb should be finished tomorrow (Saturday) and not today. This is a 5-day print that was started around 11:30 a.m. last Monday.
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The God Answer
But it isn’t quite as simple as that is it? The fact that our mathematics doesn’t allow for an Absolute Infinite doesn’t mean that there isn’t a God that transcends our feeble mathematics and is of Absolute Infinite extent! In … Continue reading
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