Chiron Landscapes

[gwillybj]

Tomorrow We Go Fishing

[Buster's Uncle]

[ariete]

cool, i'm already breathing xenofungos essence

[gwillybj]

I hear a low humming, quiet singing (where are the razorbeaks?),  like a choir almost... dreamy... AAAUGH!

[Geo]

(where are the razorbeaks?)

In the water?

[gwillybj]

That's the Sporefish. The Razorbeaks were birds, "tending" the fungal stalks, collecting pollen from the many-colored flowers.

[Buster's Uncle]

Firaxis concept art:

[gwillybj]

Looks like a cricket - too much like what a locust would be.

[Buster's Uncle]

[shrugs]

[gwillybj]

Just a snippet from the blurbs, why my thinking is razorbeaks are like a hummingbird. Also introducing the glowmite, which brings to my mind a picture of a small dung beetle or a tiny bee.

##Centauri Empathy
#TECH58
Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms;
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink.
Follow the Glow Mites as they gather and organize the fallen spores.
What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something
is {managing} the ecology of this planet.
^
^        -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^           "Planet Dreams"

(Which reminds me - I left out the yellow in the fungus...)

[Geo]

That's the Sporefish. The Razorbeaks were birds, "tending" the fungal stalks, collecting pollen from the many-colored flowers.

Ah. Mixed 'm up with Svensgaard's Razorsharks.

[Buster's Uncle]

I always took it as more birdlike based on the same quote, but it doesn't actually preclude an insect-like appearance at all.  Still, a concept that didn't make it into the game is hardly binding.



I've fungused up many a landscape shot to make diplomacy landscapes for custom factions - I think the last time I did it was for an MP banner page.  Let's poke around a little...

This one started as a snowscape, so the challenge was in getting small bits of the white to select.  I probably should have done more stippling to mix colors...

[gwillybj]

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's a Planetfall landscape - all I actually did to this was add scanlines...

[ariete]

i don't understand why there are a lot of wind blades