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Here's a picture looking straight at the volcano.. Well, you can't see it, but it's just behind that ridge :) Note the god rays going through the dust, not sure how unusual these are, but it's not the standard clean air around here, that's for sure.



The grass is covered in ashes... and so am I, after a while :)



More nasty crap.





This is a picture of... I think it's the Katla. This is a much easier to pronounce volcano, which is also much scarier. The Eyjafjallajökull was kind of cute, but this one is the real deal; it looks just like burned out, blackened, broken off exhaust pipe of a car sticking right out of the ground. If this one blows, we're in trouble :\ Last time it blew, temperature over mainland Europe dropped by two degrees, reportedly leading to famine and, indirectly, the French Revolution :) Hm, or so they say.

This picture was taken at one in the morning, by the way.



Picture of the road on the way back, with magic colors in the sky and rolling fog over the fields. Picture taken at about 2:30 in the morning. I know it looks a bit dark, but you could drive without headlights, if you wanted to :)

]]> iceland http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=769 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:41:05 +0000 http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=767
First thing you notice as you get closer is that the road is gone; it was deliberately destroyed so the floods caused by the eruption would get to the ocean through here.. And not through the much-more-expensive-to-rebuild bridge further down the road. Makes sense, I suppose.



Typical side-of-the-road marker that got buried in ash and rock.



Here's the waterfall from the title -- at least I think it's this one.. if not, it's probably Skógafoss :) If you're thinking I'm overdoing it with the saturation filter -- it really is that bright and shiny out there.



All of these pics were taken at about 21:00, 22:00'ish. Yup, nine/ten in the evening; this was way back when the sun would set, kinda, but never really go dark.



Another view...



.. and another one! :)

]]> iceland http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=767 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:48:54 +0000 http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=765 plenty more courses but these are the one I was interested in / tried to attend.

Advances in Realtime Rendering
http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2010/index.html

Color Enhancement in Rendering in Film and Games
http://renderwonk.com/publications/s2010-color-course/

Beyond Programmable Shading Course:
http://bps10.idav.ucdavis.edu/

Physically based shading in Film and Game Production:
http://renderwonk.com/publications/s2010-shading-course/

Global Illumination Across Industries
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~jaroslav/gicourse2010/

Advanced Techniques in Real Time Hair Rendering and Simulation
Update - http://sarahtariq.com/HairCourseNotes_SIGGRAPH2010.html has Tariq's part of the presentation.]]> zwans http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=765 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:19:10 +0000 http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=763 Esja, about 320 degrees around (the missing 40 is just a wall of rock).



Above is the small preview; hit this link to get the full 6000 something by 1024 pixels, 1.8 megabyte file.

It keeps amazing me just how incredibly far away you can see. From Reykjavik you can easily spot the Snaefelsness glacier, which is about 100 km away if I'm not mistaken. Likewise, standing on the Esja you can spot the control tower of the international airport at Keflavik, at least 60 km away. Clean air ftw!]]> iceland http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=763 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:39:50 +0000 http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=761














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]]> iceland http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=759 Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:23:48 +0000 http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=757 Sfeerbeelden from the ski/snowboard/crosscountry/rastafari trip to Akureyri with CCP's Fun Division, mid-March. Back then the ice was still firmly in Iceland.













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That's it! Back to Iceland next time :)]]> zwans http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=755 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:34:44 +0000 http://bpeers.com/blog/index.php?itemid=753 bedrijfsfeestje on Saturday night...

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