[Dazzlinkat]

HE is first again :p

adding to HE's list: why are some of the reflections on the bike not backwards? and why is the brown building all dirty with gang sign on the door while the blue building is all clean? they are only a street apart! Also, the back inner wall of the blue building should be darker.

as for the bike stress-points: its a strict street bike :)

[Radthorne]

HE gets tired of my replies, but since Dazzle is new to 'em... :D I'll respond to a couple:

"why is the brown building all dirty with gang sign on the door while the blue building is all clean?"

Efficient security guards. ;)

"why are some of the reflections on the bike not backwards?"

Good catch. The interesting thing about those reflections is that they are not real. They are actually "painted on" as part of the texture set. The chopper model comes with six different texture patterns, including things like flames. But I like this one the best, as it looks the most realistic with the "reflections." There is nothing actually in front of the bike at all, so even if the texture were a mirror surface there wouldn't be anything there to reflect. The texture artist, I presume, took a photograph of some buildings and signs and very artfully modified them in Photoshop, or the equivalent, to distort them to look like reflections in shapes to match the bike model's contours. Aside from them not being in reverse, as you noted, I think he did an amazingly good job.

The "foo-foo" noted by HE is what actually inspired me to make the picture, as I felt that stuff like the fringe and her arm band said "biker babe" to me; it seems very much like what I've seen biker ladies wearing.

[Rocket Sheep]

Does Mrs Radthorne know you've been spying on biker ladies?

[Radthorne]

As HE says, it's a wonder that I manage to get her to pose for me with all those different crazy outfits... :D

Lise is always the editor of first resort, whether it be prose or pictures. So if something looks really stupid, she lets me know. And if I then post it anyway, the rest of you usually tell me the same thing. ;)

[Hereford Eye]

Au contraire! Your replies are one of the delights of my universe. Watching you wiggle out of harm's way is one of the most awe inspiring sights available on the web.
In the meantime, please extend my deepest sympathies to TLWSHLWY as I am certain TLWSHLWM knows her pain.

[Radthorne]

Au contraire! Your replies are one of the delights of my universe. Watching you wiggle out of harm's way is one of the most awe inspiring sights available on the web.
In the meantime, please extend my deepest sympathies to TLWSHLWY as I am certain TLWSHLWM knows her pain.
And TLWSHLWM says much the same, oft times wondering how I manage to wiggle out of harms way from her... :D

[Radthorne]

I obtained this rather neat looking robot texture as a freebie, and thought I'd make a quick pix for everyone:

https://home.comcast.net/~radthorne/Data/Pictures/Vorg.jpg

[Rocket Sheep]

Is it designed to scramble C3PO's chips or is it a lurrve bot? ;)

[Hereford Eye]

As a proper NZ girl, Sheepie will recognize the music emanating from that compact CD/digital mash processor in her mid-section. Rumors are that her inspiration came from http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/articles/4517.
Why is it, oh rain-sodden guru of the northwestern shores, that all female robots have exposed mid-sections? Does the machinery run better if you can watch it? Or is it a clever ploy to mis-direct human male attention so that they wind up contemplating/day dreaming about what's actually under that armor?

[Radthorne]

Why is it, oh rain-sodden guru of the northwestern shores, that all female robots have exposed mid-sections? Does the machinery run better if you can watch it? Or is it a clever ploy to mis-direct human male attention so that they wind up contemplating/day dreaming about what's actually under that armor?
Alas, such ponderings exceed my ability to compute... although I suspect what's under that armor is a lot of wiring...

Let's try another big picture, to bring out the detail... An appropriate title for this one might be, "Contemplations on an Approaching Storm."

https://home.comcast.net/~radthorne/Data/Pictures/SayuriTwo.jpg