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Published: 2009-12-30 09:01:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 4798; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 348
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Just something I did. A few planets encircling their parent star in relatively close vicinity to a star-bursting nebula.Size of .PSB is 8.0 GiB, original resolution is 10240*8192 pixels.
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Thanks! I've been doing photoshop for nearly 3 years.
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Very realistic, especially the bottom area and that brilliant lens flare 
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Thank you. I prefer to make my images at a high resolution, as they become much sharper when resizing them (even though that doesn't matter above a certain point, like >2x the supposed screen resolution).
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I cannot believe you have 12gb of ram, that is utterly insane!
Great piece though man, gotta love Apophysis
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Thanks mate! Haha, I spend quite a bit to keep my system at the high-end.
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Oh man and I bet you love the results!
No problem, you are improving insanely, keep it up!
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Yes, thanks, I think these periods of inactivity make me contemplate about how to improve my images.
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Nice one. It almost looks like someone being stretched out on a rack.
I love all the little nuances.
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Awesome job! But I got to ask how much RAM you got in your computer to keep photoshop running at a decent speed?
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I have 12 GB, as I mentioned in an other comment here.
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OMFG!! 12 gigs As the tech nerd I am I salute you!!!
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Hehe, thanks. DDR2 memory was dirt cheap the last time I checked, though (DDR3 hasn't come down in price that much since I bought my sticks about 1 years ago, which is sad).
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yeah it really dropped in price a friend of mine picked up like 16 gigs for a really low price. I'm looking to build a desktop soon but I would be happy with 8 gigs but if I can find the right deal I would defiantly go for it.
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Lol, must've been a lot of them DDR3 RAMs. At least 4 GB, maybe, or depending on the artwork. Mine's 1 GB only.
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4 gigs of DDR3 if thats what it is as a tech guy I would be impressed that stuff is ridiculously expensive XD i wasn't even considering DDR3 for my next pc just lots of DDR2
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It is, considering he's saving it in just several minutes, compared to me (1 GB took AT LEAST 30 min. to save)
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Thanks dude, I appreciate it.
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Wow, your pics are still getting more and more 'wtfthisisdamnepiciwantmoreomg'ish
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an 8 gig pic...you're a patient one... be sure to keep humongous amounts of harddisk free...good work...very nice pic...
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Yes, you have to patient when working with these things, no reason to rush things.
Thanks dude.
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i love you man
really like your style... ex. nebula
very nice... maybe you could teach me how to make ones like those
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Thanks you! These nebulae (in my last pictures) are all made from apophysis fractals. I use fractals mostly created with the 'curl' and 'spherical' variations. Then I render them at uber-high resolution, which fortunately only takes 1-2 minutes with the right settings.
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hmm perhaps we could talk about all that beacuse i would really love to lear how to make nebulas like that... they are amazing
when you have some time to explaint this to me... and will ofcourse
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Haha, so many high resolution fractals, they all add up.
Thanks.
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Realy good work mate, and 8 gb
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Thanks buddy.
The significant specs when talking about photoshopping are my CPU (intel core i7 920 @ 3.6 GHz), RAM (12 GiB corsair dominator 1600 MHz DDR3), and my slow hard drives (amongst them 2 WD caviar black 1 TiB). I really want some SSD's but I think most of them seem to have various issues (and that they are a tad too expensive at the moment).
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The Caviar Black TB and 2TB drives beat Velociraptors due to platter density. So 'Slow Hard Drives' isn't correct.
Anyways, nice specs.... I think with 8GB PSDs you are one of the few that can actually use 12GB ram. Maybe one of these days I'll need to get another 6 too. xD
Anyways your stuff is sick. Keep em coming!
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Thanks. Yes, I know that. Their speed was a big factor in choosing these drives. Also, a thread on xtremesystems points to s french study which shows that these WD drives have a failure rate of 0% (which sounds amazing), which is important since I have had 2 seagate drives which have failed on me recently (they both came with OEM PC's). But they are still slow compared to SSD's or RAM-drives.
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Only if you get a proper SSD, most are slower than mech drives.
RAM drives are awesome though.
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Yes, what I mean by SSDs are the proper ones, like the ones from intel.
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Yeah, I was about to buy one, but I'm going to wait for the G3s.
Should go nice with dual GTX 380s.
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Well, I don't think so. I've never been a fan of Jen Hsun Huang and his strategies. One of his graphics chips has been renamed like the 4th time now (it's hard to keep track of all of this). I believe Fermi will not come until late april, it's being delayed, delayed, and delayed... Remember people at the HD 5k launch saying "well, I'm waiting 3 months to see what GT 300 will bring to the table". Well, now it's been well over 3 months and Fermi is nowhere near release. ATI will probably be able to launch the HD 6k series not long after fermi, which has a remade architecture (since R600 - R800 basically use the same architecture). If the R900 has MCM, it will be a revolution in graphics processing. Then I will "pray" that it will be able to handle the new crysis that will released at some point (unless it's dumbed down and has become a contemptuous console port). NV fanboys are becoming desperate.
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Idk, if NV pulls what they are saying it will be roughly double a 5850 for the 380...
It's basically going to be the Core i7 of GPUs, few need it, but it's a complete redesign that dominates.... and has a price tag that shows it.
And before you go calling me a fanboy.... well I don't ally myself with anyone. Whichever is the best when I'm looking, I buy. I'm not buying now, so we shall see...
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At beyond3d (many of its forum users have PhDs in computer architecture or the likes, and they have successfully predicted chips in the past) they believe the 380 will be about 60-70% faster than the GTX 285, perhaps 20% faster than HD 5870. It will be a repeat of GT200 vs R700, only that the Fermi will be released much later, due to issues at TSMC. Hardly a core i7-equivalence.
If you compare the transistor counts for these chips, it should be like R700 vs GT200. Rv770 had 0.956 billion trannies, GT200 had 1.4B trannies. These numbers for Rv870 and Fermi are 2.1 and 3. Both of them have more than doubled in trannie count, but performance will not double.
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Eh, if it pulls 60-70% it will destroy the 5870. Like I said though, we shall see. For all I know it could flop.
I just hope the competition stays like this, it keeps my prices down.
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Well, it must destroy the 5870, or it will be NV30 all over again. The Rv870 chip has a surface area of ~340 mm^2, Fermi has 500+ mm^2, and Rv870 consequently has much better yields.
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Yeah.... which is gonna make Fermi expensive as hell too...
The big thing between AMD and Nvidia is Nvidia has really deep pockets. They can hold a bad generation, if barely. AMD has quite a bit of debt (4 billion last I checked) and as such are much less secure. This however can play to their advantage, as they will work harder to keep from a bad launch, where Nvidia could get cocky.
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Yes, the size of AMD's deficit is just unimaginable. They need every success they can get. The purchasing cost of Fermi should be similar to that of GTX 280 (after ATI had launched its chips).
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