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BLPH β€” Ghosts of a Forlorn Past

Published: 2013-08-13 14:37:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 6781; Favourites: 242; Downloads: 301
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Description Whilst many nebulae may look calm to the observer, they are, in fact, either the progeny of something violent or they are about to undergo a drastic change. In a gradual course of events, they get slowly torn apart while orbiting their center. Fragment by fragment, particle by particle, they dissolve into blurry shapes. Ghosts. And even those will eventually vanish.


More practicing of nebula-painting. Slowly getting the hang of it. Inspiration for this piece struck me while I was programming a little simulation that displays objects orbiting each other. Made the masses variable and starting-parameters for position and velocity-vector can be adjusted as well. It illustrates quite nicely the concept of planetary and comet-orbits, and gravitational slingshots

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Comment, fav, enjoy!



Used by Setekh for his EP Void

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Comments: 15

Omega-Shadowcry [2014-02-25 02:48:05 +0000 UTC]

Hhhnnggg nebulae.

Omega likes. Lama to you, good sir.

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BLPH In reply to Omega-Shadowcry [2014-02-25 15:05:15 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you!

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madmadman01 [2013-08-27 15:34:42 +0000 UTC]

very nice

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BLPH In reply to madmadman01 [2013-08-27 21:54:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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SBaneN [2013-08-19 16:43:05 +0000 UTC]

Haunted by that which always haunts without haunting that which cannot be haunted.



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Anyway, it looks as awesome as usual.

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BLPH In reply to SBaneN [2013-08-19 17:20:18 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, thank you

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kaBOTS [2013-08-15 18:00:33 +0000 UTC]

Awesome as alwaysΒ 

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BLPH In reply to kaBOTS [2013-08-16 14:00:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, as always

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ouzo216 [2013-08-14 15:25:07 +0000 UTC]

Nice. The flow pattern seems maybe too irregular in the upper left, the planet doesn't seem massive enough to disrupt it that much, although you did make it rather large. You did a great job giving dimension to the nebula by your coloration of the gases around the core. I like this piece, your work is getting a more realistic feel each time.

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BLPH In reply to ouzo216 [2013-08-16 13:59:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
The planet is more or less the obligatory accompaniment to nebulae. It felt a little empty without it, so that's why it's there in first place. It's not intended in any way to have such a staggering density that the nebula itself would get influenced significantly

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ouzo216 In reply to BLPH [2013-08-16 16:37:12 +0000 UTC]

Aesthetics, right. Sometimes I forget it's art we're discussing here.

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BLPH In reply to ouzo216 [2013-08-16 17:44:12 +0000 UTC]

My bad, this was a little far-fetched anyways

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experimentalDeity [2013-08-14 05:56:43 +0000 UTC]

So beautiful...

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BLPH In reply to experimentalDeity [2013-08-14 07:36:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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experimentalDeity In reply to BLPH [2013-08-15 03:04:43 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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