#horizontal wood grain

[krispeetersvisitingthings]

Bathroom 3/4 Bath Portland Maine Inspiration for a medium-sized rustic 3/4-tile installation in blue and porcelain Remodeling a shower alcove with beige flooring, quartz countertops, an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets, and brown walls with porcelain tile.

[90days-90reasons]

Living Room - Open

Example of a large, modern living room with an open concept, gray floor, vaulted ceiling, and wood ceiling, as well as white walls and a wall-mounted television.

[carleighrose]

Bathroom 3/4 Bath Portland Maine Mid-sized mountain style 3/4 blue tile and porcelain tile porcelain tile and beige floor alcove shower photo with flat-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, an undermount sink, quartz countertops, brown walls and a hinged shower door

[bixels]

It's crazy how Dungeon Meshi's manga can feel more cinematic and emotional than the anime to me, even when they're practically the same. Compared to the anime, this moment is such a heartbreaking gut-drop. The way Kui uses negative space and flat compositions to create a sense of horrific stillness is so key.

The way the text (Senshi's monologue) is sequestered to an empty corner of a panel or huddled away from the edge of its text box is not only a great way of showing Senshi's headspace (fearful, isolated, dissociating), but creates a visual representation of pause, as if you hold your breathe after each line. The first panel puts us directly in Senshi's perspective too (compared to in the anime, which puts us as an outside observer over Senshi's shoulder). The detail of the door and bricks so effectively implies that he stared at it for so long, waiting and hoping, that its image is burned in his memory. The wood grain, the brick arch, the number of rivets. The lack of dialogue in the second panel shows a moment of realization too –– "he's dead" (also a great example of the Kuleshov effect). And it's that pause that creates a beat and sets a great rhythm to his headspace, like a music rest: "He never came back." (oh god.) "I'm all alone." Finally, the third panel's negative space, cropping Senshi, shows how truly alone he feels. Without his family, the world ceases to exists. Under shock, he traps himself in a 1-foot radius, too scared to even perceive a world outside its boundaries; a world that can hurt him, kill him, make him disappear with it. There is only his body, the stone beneath his feet and against his back, his thoughts, and that awful bowl of soup.

Even though they're a series of flat images, there's an implicit reading of silence in Senshi's realization and horror. Kui influences your experience to slow down and take your time.

Compare this to the anime, which fills every shot with dialogue. The pacing is fast; we never get to sit in silence like we do with the manga. The horizontal frame allowed the boarders to add Senshi, turning the composition into an over-the-shoulder shot, which takes us out of Senshi's POV. They also added a zoom-out in shot one, which adds unnecessary energy to a very somber scene. The tightening on Senshi as a close-up reaction shot also dulls the moment. In the original panel, Senshi stares ahead at the empty space to his left as a shadow surrounds his mind. It not only shows how Senshi's senses are dulling and his world is shrinking (setting up panel three), but shows how terrified Senshi is of what's in front of him, how the air itself becomes pitch black and opaque, how Senshi is surrendering himself to fear. The pacing is understandable and necessary; this episode packed a lot of story content together. It's just a shame because it really (imo) deflated one of the most nauseating moments in Dungeon Meshi.

[rogersx]

Great Room - Modern Kitchen

Inspiration for a mid-sized modern kitchen remodel with a single-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, an island, and white countertops in a brown and light wood floor, open concept layout.

[todayintentacles]

Bridgeport Single Wall Home Bar Mid-sized minimalist single-wall concrete floor home bar photo with flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, solid surface countertops, white backsplash and stone slab backsplash

[felixsander]

Bathroom Kids in San Francisco A medium-sized trendy image of a children's bathroom featuring light wood cabinets and flat panels

[dodie-snk]

Modern Kitchen - Great Room Inspiration for a mid-sized modern kitchen remodel with a single-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, an island, and white countertops in a brown and light wood floor, open concept layout.

[amethystamanda]

Boarded Up

Has there been a monsoon, or is there one coming? Did a small child (or a bigger one) throw a ball through your window? Are you abandoning your house and want to make sure everyone knows no one's home? Just hate those gorgeous views?

Here's some plywood to board things up.

They come in four basic wood patterns from Peacemaker's palette with four variations on each one: the original fairly neat grains, one with the grains a bit less neat (for variation and because I've never seen plywood with neat grains), one with a stamp on one end, and for most shapes, one with a stamp on the other end (missing on some shapes because it's not visible. It would be an extra identical swatch). Because it's plywood, it comes in layers, with the middle layer being darker than the wood on each side.

There are 3D nails on the ends, and in the case of the irregular shapes, along the edges.

They come in six sizes and shapes, all of which are both horizontal and vertical. The tallest needs either tall walls or medium with no ceiling (or outdoors) to show the nails at the top. You can use [ and ] or TOOL to make more size and angle variety.

That means a total of fourteen files, with twelve or sixteen swatches each.

Horizontal Small - only 12 swatches

Horizontal Medium

Horizontal Medium Narrow

Horizontal Large

Horizontal Large Narrow

Horizontal Irregular

Horizontal Triangle - only 12 swatches

Vertical Small - only 12 swatches

Vertical Medium

Vertical Medium Narrow

Vertical Large

Vertical Large Narrow

Vertical Irregular

Vertical Triangle - only 12 swatches

They can be found in wall decorations (buy mode) and wall sculptures (build mode, under the window box), or by searching for boarded or plywood or amethyst (most of my cc does not have extra search terms. I'll add them if/when things get updated). The highest poly count is 334, and that's almost entirely the nails.

Base game compatible.

Download: https://simfileshare.net/download/5321025/

[zagreuses-art]

Woodcut & riso Cover/poster for Moving pictures I made in my printing class

[ID: a mixed media black and white print illustration. The illustration has a border of movie film. At the top is the text "Moving Pictures" in the style of the Hollywood sign. Below is a scene of two alchemists demonstrating a movie projector. The alchemists are in the style of medieval woodcuts,one has glasses and a goatee and is pointing at the movie screen. the other has a robe covered in alchemical symbols, and is inspecting the photorealistic film being fed into the photorealistic old fashioned movie projector, which is sitting on a table between them. The screen looks a bit like a old mantlepeice, with carved skulls at the corners, on the screen is a frame of a black and white movie depicting a woman in the pose of the Whore of Babylon, wearing a 20's style dress and half-circle headpiece, on top of a beast with six heads. In the foreground three other alchemists are watching the two giving the presentation from a set of movie seats, one has glasses, another is bald, the third is eating popcorn. In the black space created by the seats is the name Terry Pratchett, in white. End ID]

Easter Eggs:

- the film image in the center is from the movie Metropolis, because it's my favorite silent movie and I thought it fit thematically with the Hollywood Eldritch abomination aspect of the boom.

- the projector is an Edison design I found a photo of, as is the pose of the alchemist holding the film next to it, I edited out Edison's name on it because fuck that guy

- the name text is silent movie subtitles card font and the title is Hollywood sign font, both hand carved

- the seats are meant to look a bit like the MST3K silhouettes

- this has risograph printed and woodblock printed elements, the wood had a very definite grain that made it hard to do horizontal lines

[spineless-lobster]

was wondering if you’d want to make a post simply yapping about ancient greek instruments, i wish to learn moreee

Oh I really don’t have much to say at all about them, I was mostly exploring the wiki page and that’s about it lol, but since you asked!

I’m currently writing a fic rn where characters are playing instruments and I was curious about ancient greek instruments, considering all I really knew was the lyre and the aulos. So I decided to look up a wikipedia list and click around to see what I thought was pretty cool

(Quick disclaimer, everything I’m about to say is from wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt. Also I am not a music historian or a musician so really I barely have any idea about what I’m talking about)

Turns out, there’s a million different versions of the lyre! They all look quite similar but I am sure they’re from different regions and have their own unique sounds and histories. The one I went with in my fic was the kithara! It is a seven stringed lyre-esque instrument that was mainly played by professionals (called kitharodes). Since lyres were considered a folk/beginner instrument, those who played music for a living tended to prefer the kithara. Fun fact! “Kithara” in modern greek means guitar, and the etymological origin of the english “guitar” comes from kithara. Words are cool!!!

Please forgive me if I am using the singular/plural versions of this instrument wrong, I’m not entirely sure how this all works and I am trying my best

I was mainly excited about the krotalon (latin: crotalum) which were pretty much castanets! (I really like castanets because the fun clappy sound is nice in my ears lol) they were made out of wood or shell and brass and were mainly used by women in religious dances. Often at a slower beat/rhythm than castanets as we think of them today

More fun facts! This time bird related! Krotala allegedly made the sound of a crane’s bill, thus the bird was called crotalistria "player on crotala.”

In some versions of heracles’ myth, he uses krotala to scare away the stymphalian birds in order to shoot them down!

Now, I mentioned the aulos earlier but honestly I still didn’t know much about it other than what it sounded like. (Shout out to olympus alfame from the hades 2 soundtrack, absolute banger!!!)

Anyways, while the aulos may look like a modern flute or clarinet, it is more akin to highland bagpipes in multiple ways! We see similarities in the way it’s played (the use of circular breathing), in sound (the droning that people often find really annoying) and in function! (Both instruments were used to communicate on the battlefield.)

They were also double-reeded like oboes!

There’s multiple types of auloi. The plain “aulos” we think about is the two pipes with reeds. A single pipe without a reed was called a “monaulos.” A single pipe that was held horizontally like a flute was a “plagiaulos,” and a pipe with a bag (ahem, bagpipe, one may say) that allowed for continuous sound was called a “askaulos”

Finally, I want to talk about a myth surrounding the aulos. A satyr named marsyas either invented the aulos or picked it up one day after athena discarded it because she hated how it made her cheeks puff up (which is really funny to me). Either way, he gets his hands on the instrument and challenges apollo to a music contest (always a bad idea) the winner would “do whatever he wanted” to the loser.

If you’re a freak like me you probably had the same train of thought as marsyas who, being a satyr, would never turn down the opportunity to fuck our favourite sunshine twink. Unfortunately for him, apollo and his lyre beat him in the competition. Even more unfortunate is that instead of being taken by the god of light he is strung up on a tree and flayed alive for his hubris. Hooray!

Ack it’s almost 4am I meant to go to bed an hour ago lmao (as if 3am is a reasonable time to go to bed)

Anyways I hope you enjoyed my yap sesh! I always get nervous when writing these up because I am bound to get information wrong. And if there are any discrepancies PLEASE do not be afraid to (kindly) inform me otherwise and I will fix it!!! I am no historian I am just a silly little guy with worms in their brain who is running on 5 hours of sleep

“I don’t have much to say at all about them” <- call me odysseus the way im a fucking liar

[shastakiss]

Hello Shasta, thank you so much for linking Rudhira's post but I think they didn't do Cluedo woods only Cluedo colors? Do you have a tutorial somewhere on how to recolor stuff in your Cluedo woods? Sorry for being so annoying about this but I'm pretty obsessed with your stuff lol. Thank you <3

Hello and thank you for the compliment!

Here's a tutorial for basic recolors using GIMP at Sims2Artists. If you're using Photoshop, I'm no help. @poppet-sims might have written one, not sure.

Recoloring vs. Retexturing For recolors (using the tutorial linked above) you're using EA's original textures and shading for the chair, layered on top of a solid color you've chosen. For retextures (e.g. using a cluedo wood on the Hemnes bed), you have to figure out which part of the TXTR needs the wood grain running vertically and which needs the wood grain running horizontally. If you're new to retexturing, EA original ts2 meshes are not easy (welcome to hell!)

For the Hemnes bed TXTR, I used EA's white texture (top) for my shading layer. When I did the pirate wood retexture (bottom), I probably guessed correctly where the wood grain was vertical and where it was horizontal but I'm sure there was LOTS and LOTS of fiddling too (but I can be a perfectionist). Because of EA's sadistic mapping, using textures with a distinctly noticeable grain (like wide stripey Cluedo woods) could be be extra frustrating.

Best wishes and good luck, I feel like I'm sending you off into battle

[immeasurable-depths]

Sooo I had to write something when Laura made it canon that Imogen has seen Jester’s bug. This is pretty bleak in the beginning but Laudna makes everything better in the second part I promise 🖤

Suddenly she isn’t lying on the couch staring at her fingers - her mind explodes into the memory of standing beneath the darkened canopy of the stable eaves, magic bursting purple and white out of her fingertips in a terrible flash. With a wave of revulsion, Imogen feels the ripple of energy coursing through her fingertips, illuminating those lightning streaks into iridescent purple as they glow and lightning erupts from her. The bright light puts the silhouettes of the townsfolk into stark contrast with the rapidly sinking sun behind them, suspicion and anger etched on their hardened faces. Another flash: she sees the look of pain and resignation plastered across her father’s face, feels the wave of disappointment, of hurt. The suffocating thoughts of history repeating billow off him like storm clouds, battering Imogen’s consciousness with their intensity and anguish, threatening to bowl her over. Another flash, and in her mind’s eye, she sees him shake his head slowly. Another flash, and he turns his back, disappearing into the night to trudge back through the fields towards the empty farmhouse. Defeated. Alone.

And through it all, Imogen’s fingers shine with that spectral purple glow.

She jolts back to consciousness with a quiet whimper. That damned sofa is still scraping against her skin as she draws in a shaky breath.

Must have fallen asleep again, Imogen thinks to herself. She tries to ignore the tears that slide silently from between her clenched eyelids, hot and wet and stinging as they spill over the bridge of her nose and splash into the scratchy fabric below her.

Need to stop doing that. Drifting off.

Still.

What else is there to do?

She isn’t sure which is worse, at the moment. The disturbing dreams of red dust that sneak in at night; the feeling of panic and loss of control as the wind picks up and threatens to whisk her away. Or the crippling, yawning numbness she feels during the day - especially when Laudna is away.

Imogen is pulled unceremoniously back into her body by a faint tickle across her forehead. She is torn from her dark reverie with a jolt: her eyelid flinches instinctively, and she realises the tickling is caused by the legs of a tiny insect across her cheek. She swats at it half-heartedly, too slow to catch it but stirring the air enough that it takes flight. The buzz of tiny wings permeates the air and Imogen flinches again, irritated. Her eyes track its flight path from where she still lies, horizontal, to where it lands on the dilapidated staircase a few feet away. Iridescent wings fold neatly on its back and it begins its trek, skirting along the grain of the partially rotted wood. Imogen realises it is carrying something on its back: a crumb of bread from the meagre meal they’d had the night before, clenched precariously between two microscopic front legs. It clambers along the horizontal before pausing, readjusting its vice grip before hauling itself vertically up the step. It continues, painfully slowly, but relentless.

Imogen stares, unable to take her eyes off it. The crumb is bigger than the length of its body, but it persists, heaving it up and along and up and along.

What are you doing? You’ve got wings, you dumbass. Why don’t you just fly up?

It takes Imogen a moment to register that she’s reached out instinctively with her mind. Blearily, she realises it doesn’t have enough of a consciousness to answer her.

Oh. I’m talkin’ to a bug.

Great.

She drifts.

———

The happy part is on AO3 ☺️

[amulya-mica]

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[asiandavinci]

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[linyihuite]

Black Exterior Slat Wall Paneling for Outdoors

Black Exterior Slat Wall Paneling for Outdoors

Set your eyes on this beautiful black exterior slat wall paneling for outdoors. Constructed from high-impact composite materials specifically designed to withstand outdoor elements. Featuring thick slats with a wood grain texture that gives outdoor spaces a modern, stylish, and luxurious look. A great renovation project for reshaping backyards, patios, balconies, bar & BBQ islands, any exterior walls and outdoor spaces.

Installing these black exterior slat wall panels is a breeze. The exterior slat panels can be laid out horizontally, vertically, and cut to any shape for the desired aesthetic. Furthermore, create stunning accent or feature walls to enhance the visual appeal and exterior of a building. The possibilities are endless with black exterior slat wall paneling for outdoors.

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Finish：Black

Box Contains：2 Planks

Square ft./Box：12.6

Plank Size：(8.6" Wide) x (94.5" Long or 106" Long)

Plank Thickness：1.1"

Slats/Plank：4 Strip - 1.5" Wide Slats

Slat Size：(1.5" Wide) x (0.5" Deep) - (0.5 Spacing)

Material：Exterior

Application：Outdoors

Installation Type：Screw Down

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