Rubens.anu.edu.au

[Fingernail]

http://rubens.anu.edu.au

 

Incredible source of worldwide, high-res images of all sorts of locations around the globe. 16,000 images of Rome alone!!!!

 

Absolutely incredible find.

[New Horizon]

Wow. Bookmarked for sure.

[Dram]

Brilliant

[Renzatic]

It be = secksay good.

[oDDity]

I just clicked on the first few links - are all the photos mega high res? If so, there's bound to be some useful textures in their somewhere, if anyone has a few days to surf it.

[New Horizon]

Saw some really nice stained glass pics in there. There is bound to be some productivity from this. Perhaps I can start practicing with these.

[BlackThief]

great! that'll definitely help, eventhough the quality is not always THAT good!

[kfmccall]

We should make a master list of as many textures as we think we'll need. Then we could all choose things to look up in our spare time i guess.

[Domarius]

Yay, provided by the Australian National University. See, my country is pretty cool.

[SneaksieDave]

OT:

 

Not to derail, but I'm curious. Domarius, I actually hear your country is very cool. I have a friend who has friends there that he goes an visits every few years for a month. He says they have this wonderful home (he showed me photos ), big, sitting up on the top/side of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Here's the kicker - he said it was approx $100k American for them. So basically, in my state, you can get a rinky-dink POS house for $200k+, or worse, in my town, because of some bullshit notion that it's becoming "important" in some way, you can get even less for $450k+, while over in Australia, there is apparently a ton of great property at low cost because of the relatively low population density? Is that true? About the only research I did was to look at a photo of earth at night and verify that yes, it looks like there aren't many lights on, Down Under.

 

/OT

[Fingernail]

I'll definitely be using this when it comes to cathedral textures - it has photos of cathedrals from various parts of Europe.

[Domarius]

Well there is a lot to be said for the exchange rate... Yeah I love my country, I just took the opportunity to emphasise the rare occasion that something you might find on the net that is really important is from Australia - its just the law of probability, the number of people from each country on the net.

 

As for the property, there are a lot of great, untouched areas etc. But if you're looking at the lights from a satellite photo, well most of Australia (inland) is just desert, which is why no one lives there.

[Dram]

Dom: Were you born in Australia? I only came here when i was 4.

 

Anyway, I start uni on the 28th . Though that means that I'll be on less (probably ).

 

--Dram

[Domarius]

Thread unintentionally hijacked

 

Yes I was born in western australia, the outback part, but I don't remember it because we moved to victoria before I was 1 year old.

 

My dad is part singaporian, part polish, I can never remember (his mum was part cantonese), and my mum is part australian, part french.

My dad said I'm "Eurasian", but I'm still confused

[Dram]

lol I see. Quite a mix.

 

LOL, yeah, sorry for hijacking the thred guys - back to you lol :lol: