Michael Zahniser <mzahniser@gmail.com> writes: > I agree that having the "source" for all the graphics available for > anyone to view or modify is important. But I can't just export from > Blender files: for the 3D images, I touched them up by hand in GIMP > after rendering them, adding texture, scuff marks, color variation, and > random shadows and highlights. That was to make them look dirty and worn > rather than pristine and artificial. Similarly, a lot of the photos have > been retouched, e.g. shifting the colors to make them look more like > alien landscapes. > > That means that the "source" files include many large GIMP files, and > add up to over 3 GB. That's large enough that I think it's better for > the image source files to be available separately rather than including > them in the main source distribution. (I could add a line to the read-me > giving a link to the current location (Google drive) of those files.) I predict that Google Drive can and will go down sooner than you think, with little advance warning. You should never rely on services provided by an entity with a history of breaking running systems like Google. See <http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#Selfdestructingpaper>: > A spy opens an envelope. Inside is a thin sheet of paper with a > cryptic message. After it is read the paper spontaneously bursts into > flames. > > The message is the communicable distillation of your hopes, dreams and > imagination. The paper is the internet. The internet is self > destructing paper. A place where anything written is soon destroyed by > rapacious competition and the only preservation is to forever copy > writing from sheet to sheet faster than they can burn. > > If it's worth writing, it's worth keeping. If it can be kept, it might > be worth writing. Would your store your brain in a startup company's > vat? If you store your writing on a 3rd party site like blogger, > livejournal or even on your own site, but in the complex format used > by blog/wiki software de jour you will lose it forever as soon as > hypersonic wings of internet labor flows direct people's energies > elsewhere. For most information published on the internet, perhaps > that is not a moment to soon, but how can the muse of originality soar > when immolating transience brushes every feather? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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