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  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited February 2015

    Agreed. Both are pictured elsewhere with diamond shaped spots, not speckles more resembling a leopard. hmmm.
    Australia is rather close to both of there natural range, unlike Florida.

    Better question, how close was the snake to moulting, that may be a big factor with how the skin/scales look.
    (EDIT)
    And the couple do look cute together, nice photos.

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    Prehistoric beasties are a whole different ball game. I don't know if I want to get into those or not.

    I definitely don't want to "get into" any animal at any time... :gulp:

  • BarubaryBarubary Posts: 1,217
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    Silly Barubary, humans aren't the dominant species on the planet NOW. We're just the dominant vertebrate. :D

    It think that sort of scientific accuracy wouldn't have fit well with the rest of the post ;)

    Barubary, perhaps after some coffee. Or is that you passed out on the keyboard, lol. Some one sent me a "Compressed" 'C' code text file once, with the commands mashed together like that on a single line, even all the comments had been removed. I took a quick glance at the first never ending '#include' statement, threw it out and sent them packing..

    Surprisingly, it's no a single line, I had to break it up a bit to not make this thread unreadable.


    Anyway, spiders are scary :D BUT they are scary, which makes them quite useful for frightening images. So I'd probably still snatch up the SickleSpider ;D

    Still, I think any decent, self-respecting creature wears their skeleton where it belongs - on the inside. Wearing it around your body is just rude.

  • Three WishesThree Wishes Posts: 471
    edited December 1969

    Barubary said:

    Still, I think any decent, self-respecting creature wears their skeleton where it belongs - on the inside. Wearing it around your body is just rude.

    If you like space opera, I recommend Neal Asher's Spatterjay Series. The antagonistic alien species (well, one of many in a very weird and unfriendly universe) is called "The Prador." They descend from crustacean-like critters, hate everything and everybody, and tend to eat whatever they can catch. Or, barring a pantry full of prisoners of war, their own offspring.

    They find the fact that Humans carry their structural support inside their bodies and all the soft jiggly bits out in plain view somewhat gross. Not gross enough to keep them from snacking on Homo Sapiens every chance they get, but definitely gross.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited March 2015

    dhtapp said:
    Barubary said:

    Still, I think any decent, self-respecting creature wears their skeleton where it belongs - on the inside. Wearing it around your body is just rude.

    If you like space opera, I recommend Neal Asher's Spatterjay Series. The antagonistic alien species (well, one of many in a very weird and unfriendly universe) is called "The Prador." They descend from crustacean-like critters, hate everything and everybody, and tend to eat whatever they can catch. Or, barring a pantry full of prisoners of war, their own offspring.

    They find the fact that Humans carry their structural support inside their bodies and all the soft jiggly bits out in plain view somewhat gross. Not gross enough to keep them from snacking on Homo Sapiens every chance they get, but definitely gross.

    This is something I really hate about military sci fi in particular - that arthropods are always evil for stupid reasons. It's never good biology. No creature eats its own offspring unless it's forced into unnatural, dangerous circumstances; that's contra its own evolutionary drives even with a numbers-based reproductive strategy. And no sci fi setting with mammalian aliens has THEM eat their own if stressed (which rabbits and hippos both will do if pushed far enough). It's pandering to a human fear of species that are ultimately beneficial to us just because they look very different from us.

    Female wolf spiders, when they meet at territorial borders, fight to the death even if one of them is carrying offspring on her back (something several free-running arachnid species do). If the one with babies loses, the winner (after devouring the liquefied organs of her fallen enemy) then gathers up those babies and carries them herself. Both combatants' evolutionary drives are met; the one has already reproduced, and her genes are passed on; the other survives TO reproduce, and HER genes are passed on later.

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  • gingercakes47gingercakes47 Posts: 382
    edited December 1969

    Thank you for the wonderful pythons. I'm one that likes snakes and had a Florida King snake on my computer screen at work and had to take it down due to many requests from co-workers. They got to keep their cutsie stuff but I had to take down a beautiful snake. At a hospital no less, and snakes were a symbol of healing.

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,288
    edited March 2015

    I've no idea whether this is genuine or photoshopped. But it is an icon which I tripped over some years back (cannot remember where, probably LiveJournal). If it's real, it's a collection of very pretty snakies.

    Oh, BTW, you will give us a heads-up when the corrected files go live, won't you?

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  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    I hope it's photoshopped, because otherwise that's pretty inhumane.

    You bet! I will post in this thread.

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,288
    edited December 1969

    Yes, definitely a case of overcrowding.

    Frankly, I'm not sure that all of those are actually snakes at all. At least half of them look bogus to me. I think someone was playing in photoshop. Maybe testing out Photoshop Extended's 3D capabilities, with a bunch of primitives, a pack of photographs of snake skins and the HSV sliders.

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    My thought is rolls of cloth at a market. The colors and patrons look very familiar to some Ive seen in some documentaries lately (Rise of the Continents). That or rubber snakes, again, at a market on display.

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,288
    edited December 1969

    Rubber snakes. I can believe that!

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited March 2015

    Did a little digging, and found no other pics anything like that. I think you don't get that many different species of snake patrons in one place and about the same size like that, unless there just cloth patrons, or a kids rubber snake bundle.

    Back on an almost happier thought, and speaking of snakes, I remember watching a NOVA show decades ago, where they were excavating a roman village (I'm sure it was Pompeii). One of the items was a double-headed snake bracelet (not a finger ring) with a beautifully crafted chain between the mouths of the snake heads. An absolutely stunning work of art, even covered in volcanic ash.

    I was awestruck, at how impossible it appeared to get that tinny chain into the mouths like that.
    (pic from a "southerntravelnews" 2008 exhibit article)

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  • BarubaryBarubary Posts: 1,217
    edited March 2015

    SickleYield said:
    This is something I really hate about military sci fi in particular - that arthropods are always evil for stupid reasons.

    It's because people stop reading after:

    (after devouring the liquefied organs of her fallen enemy)


    Because to us humans, there just is something wrong with that kind of diet. You don't do that.

    Killing a pig, then grinding it's meat into paste and shoving it into it's own intestines before eat it with a bit of mustard, now that's the right way to consume you meal :D

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,999
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    dhtapp said:
    Barubary said:

    Still, I think any decent, self-respecting creature wears their skeleton where it belongs - on the inside. Wearing it around your body is just rude.

    If you like space opera, I recommend Neal Asher's Spatterjay Series. The antagonistic alien species (well, one of many in a very weird and unfriendly universe) is called "The Prador." They descend from crustacean-like critters, hate everything and everybody, and tend to eat whatever they can catch. Or, barring a pantry full of prisoners of war, their own offspring.

    They find the fact that Humans carry their structural support inside their bodies and all the soft jiggly bits out in plain view somewhat gross. Not gross enough to keep them from snacking on Homo Sapiens every chance they get, but definitely gross.

    This is something I really hate about military sci fi in particular - that arthropods are always evil for stupid reasons. It's never good biology. No creature eats its own offspring unless it's forced into unnatural, dangerous circumstances; that's contra its own evolutionary drives even with a numbers-based reproductive strategy. And no sci fi setting with mammalian aliens has THEM eat their own if stressed (which rabbits and hippos both will do if pushed far enough). It's pandering to a human fear of species that are ultimately beneficial to us just because they look very different from us.

    Female wolf spiders, when they meet at territorial borders, fight to the death even if one of them is carrying offspring on her back (something several free-running arachnid species do). If the one with babies loses, the winner (after devouring the liquefied organs of her fallen enemy) then gathers up those babies and carries them herself. Both combatants' evolutionary drives are met; the one has already reproduced, and her genes are passed on; the other survives TO reproduce, and HER genes are passed on later.
    It's not military sc-fi as suhc, but in "Perdito Street Station" by China Mieville he has a spider-esque character that makes a sort of cameo appearance and is rather engaging, if not slightly off-centre and quite worrying, but not because it's spider-like!

  • K T OngK T Ong Posts: 486
    edited December 1969

    Razor 42 said:
    Love the new python SIckleyield, very nice work!

    Heres are some images of a nice burmese Python they found trapped on a fence up the road from where I live. And some Eastern Brown snakes in the backyard quite in love, in a mating dance. Aren't they sweet!

    The mating snakes are real funny, but the python is just too scary for my comfort. It looks like it had swallowed a... no, I'd rather not think of it... :-S

    Haven't heard from you for a long while now, by the way. How have you been, and when's your next render? :-)

  • K T OngK T Ong Posts: 486
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    This is something I really hate about military sci fi in particular - that arthropods are always evil for stupid reasons. It's never good biology. No creature eats its own offspring unless it's forced into unnatural, dangerous circumstances; that's contra its own evolutionary drives even with a numbers-based reproductive strategy. And no sci fi setting with mammalian aliens has THEM eat their own if stressed (which rabbits and hippos both will do if pushed far enough). It's pandering to a human fear of species that are ultimately beneficial to us just because they look very different from us.

    Ditto. Never liked most sci-fi stuff with military themes either, though perhaps for slightly different reasons from you. The Invaders (1960s TV series starring Roy Thinnes) and The Twilight Zone (original series hosted by Rod Serling) impressed me a whole lot more.

    Really impressed by your knowledge of biology, by the way. And still looking forward to your cobra or cobra morph. ;-)

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    K T Ong said:
    SickleYield said:
    This is something I really hate about military sci fi in particular - that arthropods are always evil for stupid reasons. It's never good biology. No creature eats its own offspring unless it's forced into unnatural, dangerous circumstances; that's contra its own evolutionary drives even with a numbers-based reproductive strategy. And no sci fi setting with mammalian aliens has THEM eat their own if stressed (which rabbits and hippos both will do if pushed far enough). It's pandering to a human fear of species that are ultimately beneficial to us just because they look very different from us.

    Ditto. Never liked most sci-fi stuff with military themes either, though perhaps for slightly different reasons from you. The Invaders (1960s TV series starring Roy Thinnes) and The Twilight Zone (original series hosted by Rod Serling) impressed me a whole lot more.

    Really impressed by your knowledge of biology, by the way. And still looking forward to your cobra or cobra morph. ;-)

    Thanks! My degrees were in biology and chemistry. That didn't pan out, but I still am a dedicated armchair biologist (at least I do use the scientific method constantly at this job).

    I really love the first two Mass Effect games. The asari are awfully pandering, but I'm willing to concede a pansexual psychic ninja princess race culturally obligated to promiscuity when I also got the hanar, the krogan, the salarians, etc. The way the rachni are treated is much more the way I would wish to see very alien arthropods treated in sci fi.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    The update is live in the store!

    This update renames the previous 'ball python" to the "burmese python" (the correct name for the markings) and adds a correct ball python texture set.

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    The update is live in the store!

    This update renames the previous 'ball python" to the "burmese python" (the correct name for the markings) and adds a correct ball python texture set.

    Just as I was making an order, lol. No I didn't bother with embarrassing screen-caps, It is rude and pointless.

    I look forward to playing with them tonight, as I measure Stuff No One Wants. "O" freezing rain, sounds like fun, lol.

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