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Just had to show it to somebody

Quig

Tin Can Cobra

Was that made from smashed cans (hard to tell)? If so, how tall was it?
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DZ

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

LOL, not sure I got the pic in an email. Cans look like catfood or tuna cans to me.

Quig

Maybe it's just me, but there's something unnatural about the lighting and the texture of the cans. Am I the only one that thinks this might be a computer generated snake overlayed onto a photo?

P.S. At the very least, there's more than just stacking going on here since the outer row of cans on each side of the hood look fairly impossible to me...

P.P.S. Either way, it's still fairly cool...

I hadn't considered that, but it IS odd that it stands the way the hood is built. I would expect it to crumble.

Quig

I am a color corrector and i opened it up and looked for things,it would take a skilled person to add all the lighting but it looks real to me...about the strange hood stackings?ever thought about glue?lighting is also correct looking to me.

I came to the same conclusion about the hood Just didn't seem possible to stack something that high and in that shape without some sort of adhesive.

Quig

>>it would take a skilled person to add all the lighting but it looks real to me...

Note that I suggested it might be "computer genereted", meaning that someone built a 3D model and used a ray tracing program to render it with with the correct lighting. If I were doing it, I'd model it inside a white room matching the room in the picture and transfer the shadows and the snake to the photo. (I'm a programmer It's been 15 years since I've done any significant ray tracing, but I could have rendered this on a 2 MHz Macintosh in a couple of hours.)

>>about the strange hood stackings?ever thought about glue?

Yeah, I thought of that a while after I posted (not sure why I didn't right away). On closer inspection, I also see that some of the bright spots that I thought were glitches are actually reflections of a light on the ceiling that I missed before (But they would also be there in a ray trace). There's still something too crisp and regular about the cans to my eye...