#salt polygons

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Origins of Salt Polygons

Around the world, dry salt lakes are crisscrossed by thousands of meter-wide salt polygons. Although they resemble crack patterns, these structures are actually the result of convection occurring in the salty groundwater beneath the soil.  (Image credit: S. Liu, see also: Physics Today) Read the full article

[geogonzo]

Cool!!!

[psychicpeanutkitty]

April 2025 Dining Room

Functional and decorative objects

Dining Chair - 3052 polygons | Dining Table - 1678 polygons | Salt - 2564 polygons | Small Jar v1 - 1280 polygons | Small Jar v - 1280 polygons | Cookbooks - 504 polygons | Syrup Dispenser - 4288 polygons | Vase - 13592 polygons | Board - 28764 polygons

Base game compatible

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[littlbowbub]

Available to download on Patreon

Release Dates:

Choco Puds - 05.09 Mini Puds - 12.09 Bow Puds - 19.09 Public - 26.09

This recipe requires the Homestead Helper - download here {Homemade Ingredients Collection}

base game

ingredients optional - uses foraged salt rock & sea water

off the grid compatible!!

found under 'homemade ingredients' - cooking level 1

Makes 8 portions of salt - pick up portion before using.

---max vertices 258/ polygons 386 ---

[beautifulmars]

Colorful Terrain Southwest of Dawes Crater

Even seemingly unremarkable parts of Mars can appear complex and beautiful in HiRISE images! This image covers the plains southwest of Dawes Crater, a nearly 200-kilometer wide impact scar in the Terra Sabaea region of Mars’ ancient Southern highlands.

Scattered across the scene are many smaller, nearly circular depressions (likely younger impact craters) filled with dark materials, as well as lighter-toned ridges oriented from west/southwest to east/northeast; the latter are likely composed of wind-blown sand, but some small craters interrupt them too, suggesting that this sand has not moved recently.

In between the craters and sand cover, the bedrock here shows a range of colors, likely reflecting a range of rock compositions that were perhaps jumbled up by the Dawes and other nearby impacts that occurred over Martian history. The enhanced color cutout, roughly half a kilometer wide, shows some green/blue blocks that may contain the igneous minerals pyroxene or olivine, and lighter orange-to-pink materials present especially within a network of polygonal outlines intermittently visible across the image. These lighter-toned materials may include secondary minerals, such as clays or salts, that formed within a network of cracks previously present in these rocks.

Although HiRISE had not actively targeted this location, we were able to ride along with another MRO instrument's observation of it, revealing exquisite details. (Enhanced color cutout is less than 1 km across.)

ID: ESP_084041_1685 date: 30 June 2024 altitude: 259 km

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

[ssophoenixwings]

Petition to make Avalon my dad. Or alternatively: I want to be Avalon. He is so gender. Let me be a crumpled, old, salt and pepper man who is made up of enough polygons to count on one hand.

-Alex

[alieninfunkyshirt]

Something about Alhaitham's and Kaveh's height....

So, I remembered that I have their models (along with other characters) on my pc. And it happened that I have Blender installed.

I tried macthing their face polygons as much as I could, but still you should take the following info with a grain of salt

i might be delulu.

[cringeborg]

Simblreen Treat Three - Yrsa Hairs

A versatile 1820s-30s hairstyle in four variants. There's a regular version, a version without the bun (to fit underneath bonnets) and greying versions of both. I figured that could be useful.

BGC

All hat chops

The normal versions have all 24 EA swatches

The greying versions have only the first 14 EA swatches (because the remaining 10 (white, grey, unnaturals and salt & pepper) seem pretty useless in this context.)

Display index by decade

All LODs

Vertices (w/ bun): 4599

Polygons (w/ bun): 5668

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[sleepyheadnat]

I hate it when people ask me to taste food to see if the salt/seasoning is good, because when I taste things I see them as images in my head and I have no idea how to explain that the polygon of this cream has a vertex that's too pointy.

What is that spike? Too much salt? Too much spice? Heck if I know!

[mii-qrs]

BFDI Characters

8-Ball 9-Ball A A duck Amber Amethyst Ammolite Anchor Announcer Anvil Apple Aquamarine Avocado Axinite Baby Balloony Bally Banana Apple Barf Bag Basketball Battery BBQ Sauce BeiBei Bell Benitoite Billy Bob Joe Birthday Cake Black Hole Blender Blocky Bomby Bone Book Boombox Boom Mic Bottle Bracelety Bubble Burrito Bugs Buttslide Man Cake Cake's Dad Camera Cave Drawing Naily Cereal Box Clapboard Carrot Cakes Check-It Eyebrows Cheeseburger Cheese Orb Cherry Jr. Chips Chompy Christmas Tree Chrysoberyl Clock Cloudy Coiny Conch Shell Coral Cord Clip Credit Card CRT Cube Polyhedron Cube Roller Cubey Cursed Announcer with Body David Davidworm Deadly Diamond Diamond (ABCDEFG) Dioptase Discy Divide Operator Dodecahedron Polyhedron Donut Dora Dragon Drear-Top Eggy Eight Eighth Note Electric Guitar Emerald Eraser Evidence Bag Evil Leafy Exploding David Fanny Fake Firey Feldspar Fifteen Firey Firey Jr. Fire Monster Firey Speaker Box Firey Speaker Box's Clone Fish Monster Five Flower Flower Speaker Box Fluorite Foldy Football Player Four Fourteen Fries Frog Frozen Yogurt Fry Garnet Gaty Gelatin Glass Glue Gold Golf Ball Gramophone Grandfather Clock Grassy Gratitude Hello Kevin Hematite Hexagon Speaker Box Hot Sauce Ice Cube Icosahedron Polyhedron Income Tax Return Document Infinity lolite Ivory Jade Jasper JingJing Juice Box Johnson Jordan Kabab Kitchen Sink Kornerupine Lapis Lazuill Leafy Leafy's Family Leek Lego Brick Lewis Lightbulb Lightning Lithium Liy Lollipop Loser Lottery Speaker Box Malachite Marble Marble Bottle Marker Match Member Metronome Milkshake Minus Operator Mocha Mouth Naily Needle Nickel Nickel (Inanimate Insanity) Nine Nonagon Polygon Nonexisty N Variable O Obsidian Octagon Polygon Octahedron Polyhedron One One-Half Fraction One-Quarter Fraction One-Third Fraction Onigiri Opal Pastel Feather PDA Pearl Pen Pencil Peridot Phi Irrational Pie Pi Irrational Pillow Pin Plus Operator Poo Popcorn Portable Music Player Popsicle Price Tag Profily Puffball Puffball Speaker Box Pumpkin Puppet Purple Face Purple Girl with Wind Hair and Angry Eyes Purple Round Speaker Pyrite Quadrilateral Polygon Quartz Radio Announcer Raisin Ramen Noodles Rectangle Polygon Remote Robot Butlers Robot Flower Roboty Rocky Rose Rubber Spatula Ruby Rusty Coin Salt Lamp Sam Sam (Salmon Fiveyears) Sapphire Saw Scared/Dumb Scissors Selfie Dog Seven Shampoo Shirty Shopping Cart Side-View X Six Skull Sling Shot Singing Narrator Slivery Snare Drum Snowball Spike Ball Speaker Box Spongy Spray Can Square Polygon Square Root Operator Stapy Steamy Strudel Super Fan Taco Tape Teabag Teardrop Ten Tent Tennis Ball Tennis Ball Speaker Box Tetrahedron Polyhedron Times Operator Thirteen Three Three-Quarters Fraction Topaz Touch-Tone Tree Triangle Polygon Triangle Speaker Box Tune Turquoise TV Two Undecagon Polygon USB Vacuum VHSy Variscite Vomit Waffle Water Bottle Winner Woody X Yellow Face Yellow Facey Yellow Watermelon Your Mom Your Name Y Variable Zero Z Variable

[applepies-and-starlight]

Me: *forgets where the salt is supposed to go because instead of brain there is stupid bouncing majora's mask flower (MOTI's Specimen Polygon cover got stuck in my head)*

Dad: Be careful, you might get schizophrenia

Wh. What.

[liminal-station]

[ Missile Mail! The zubat lets out a bit of a confused squeak, but sets the package down regardless. ]

[ The dish inside is a platter. Several slices of Slowpoke tail are layered over each other. The meat is seared, and the fat has been caramelized expertly, the taste pleasant and rich with the oils from fat. A bowl to the side is filled with mashed potatoes and drizzled with gravy and sliced chives. Placed around the bottom of the bowl are a few berries with spicy flavors. A small dish of sea-salt, as well as a ziplock-baggy filled with various piece of broken plastic, is included as seasoning. ]

[ A note is folded in with the meal: ]

Not quite sure what you wanted with the micro-macro plastics but here you go. Hope you enjoy?

-Proton

Ingo: Mm… yes, all these flavors, these spices, these oils… crunchy and melty, sweet and spicy all at once like some kind of culinary paradox…

Emmet: Truly, human food must have been passed down directly from the gods!!! Dear bird-thing, bring the chef all our deepest gratitude!

Ingo: And bring this as well, as a physical token of our thanks.

[Ingo puts a handful of polygonal something-or-other in the Zubat’s mouth.]

[calochortus]

Peru: Salineras de Maras - Photo #1 by Doug Craig Travel Photography Via Flickr: This one is from the salt evaporation ponds at Maras, Peru, approximately 40km north of Cusco. There are more than 5,000 of these ponds. According to Wiki: "Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in Maras by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream. The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. Almost all the ponds are less than four meters square in area, and none exceeds thirty centimeters in depth. All are necessarily shaped into polygons with the flow of water carefully controlled and monitored by the workers. The altitude of the ponds slowly decreases, so that the water may flow through the myriad branches of the water-supply channels and be introduced slowly through a notch in one sidewall of each pond." Quote of the Day: "Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." (Maimonides)

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

New study says we're unlikely to find liquid water on Mars anytime soon

More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes. This necessarily meant the existence of Martians to build the canals.

While Lowell was proven wrong by better telescopes, the question of whether there's liquid water on Mars continues to tantalize researchers. Liquid water is a critical precondition for a habitable planet. Yet the combination of low temperature, atmospheric pressure and water vapor pressure on Mars means any liquid water found there would likely freeze, boil or evaporate immediately, making its presence unlikely.

Still, researchers continue to make the case for the presence of liquid water on Mars.

Of particular interest has been the discovery of the "recurring slope lineae," or RSLs, which are dark linear features found on steep slopes in specific regions of Mars. RSLs display seasonal changes, appearing in warmer seasons and fading in colder seasons, in a way that is consistent with the behavior of liquid water. Distinct striped and polygonal features in Martian permafrost have also been pointed to as possible evidence of thermal cycles. A further case has also been made for an assortment of potential liquid brines.

But a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences throws cold water on the notion that we are likely to find liquid water on Mars in RSLs, permafrost or brines anytime soon.

The paper, "The Elusive Nature of Martian Liquid Brines," was co-authored by Vincent Chevrier, an associate research professor at the University of Arkansas's Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, and Rachel Slank, a postdoctoral fellow at The Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. Slank earned her Ph.D. at the U of A while working with Chevrier, who has spent the last 20 years studying Mars for signs of liquid water. In short, he's as invested as anyone in there being liquid water on Mars, but he thinks the evidence just isn't there yet.

The goal of the paper is to educate the public on the current state of knowledge regarding the existence of liquid water on Mars.

"I wanted to write this paper for a very long time," Chevrier said, "because I think there is a lot of confusion, a lot of misunderstanding, and a lot of erroneous interpretations of what the research papers are saying about the state of liquid water on Mars."

The authors suggest that a closer look at RSLs indicates their behavior is consistent with sand and dust flows with no water needed to create them. Available data from Martian orbiters cannot confirm that liquid water plays any role in RSL development.

Other researchers think that brines—which are solutions with a high concentration of salts, such as Earth's oceans—may hold the key to finding liquid water on Mars. Brines can freeze at much lower temperatures, and there is an abundance of salts on Mars. Of those salts, perchlorates would seem to be the most promising, since they have extremely low eutectic temperatures (which is when the melting point of a mixture is lower than any single ingredient).

For instance, a calcium perchlorate brine solidifies at -75 degrees Celsius, while Mars has an average surface temperature of -50 C at the equator, theoretically suggesting there could be a zone where calcium perchlorate brine could stay liquid, particularly in the subsurface.

The authors then examine all of the arguments for and against brines potentially forming stable liquids. Ultimately, they concluded that the various limiting factors, including the relatively low amounts of the most promising salts, water vapor pressure and ice location "strongly limit the abundances of brines on the surface or shallow subsurface." Even if brines did form, they would "remain highly un-habitable by terrestrial standards."

In the last section of the paper, the authors state, "Despite these drawbacks and limitations, there is always the possibility that Martian life adapted to those brines and some terrestrial organisms could survive in them, which is a consideration for planetary protection because life on Mars might exist today in that case. Hence, detecting brines in situ remains a major objective of the exploration of the red planet."

Moving forward, the authors suggest the next hurdles will be improving the instruments needed to detect small amounts of brines, doing a better job of identifying the best places to look for them, and being able to conduct more laboratory measurements under Martian conditions.

"Despite our best efforts to prove otherwise," Chevrier concludes, "Mars still remains a cold, dry and utterly unhabitable desert."

IMAGE: Two of the most-discussed observations of potential liquid water activity on the surface of Mars. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2321067121

[salted-anime-takes]

Sword Art Online (S1 & S2; dropped after that)

Author: Reki Kawahara, originally light novels

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Genres (Listed by MAL): Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance (vomits), Love Polygon (kills you)

Premiered: Summer 2012

Anime vs. Manga?: You couldn't pay me less than $100 to consume additional content to this series. I'd also need a large margarita.

Salted Genres: stereotypical teen boy fantasy, loser cardboard male mc, harem of women too good for him, jesus christ they had a torture dungeon for main girl in S2 by some grown man obsessed with her???, jesus FUCKING christ they gave Kirito a cousin who is into him but reasoned it off not being totally blood related, why did we let this series get so popular

Major Trigger Warnings: that weird sex dungeon thing in S2, almost incest, shitty writing, shitty love polygon garbage

Can I Watch It Around My Parents?: Just don't watch it. The cultural context isn't worth it. Do yourself a favor and stop thinking isekai will be family friendly when the main audience is incels.

Artstyle: That moe-esque style without any personality and makes all the main characters look 12, and many side characters look ridiculously older.

Personal Review: I will never forgive SAO for kicking off the isekai genre in anime so hard. Fuck yourself, Kirito. Every other anime lead in isekai is just you. Fuck this garbage pile for the isekai boom. Fuck my life

Context: This is the real reason you're here, aside from the scathing remarks you've probably heard a billion times. Why the fuck is this show even relevant? Let's go back to the early 2010s, before half of tumblr could pretend to read. (This is mostly from the Western perspective, so please add anything else happening in the world with this wild popularity jump, because I'd LOVE to hear additional takes.) Several factors were going on. Firstly, Netflix was finally a full streaming service, and most people were starting to subscribe. You didn't have to hope it was on Toonami or go to whatever sketchy websites had anime illegally available (and get every virus known to computer-kind) to get your fix anymore. Well... for a small starting selection. Secondly, while the isekai genre was already a fully developed thing, it hadn't broken into the majority Western anime viewership circles, which barely ventured outside of Toonami at the time. Then along came SAO. Netflix got the rights to the entire first season, and suddenly, it was not only insanely accessible but also something most Western fans had never seen before. You die in the game, you die in real life?! Incredible!!! (Sorry Tron, you weren't high fantasy enough for this crowd.) Thirdly, gaming was finally mainstream, and watching streamers was a new norm. The timing couldn't have been better for its release. And what with the insane levels of ignorance and assumptions most Western anime watchers had at the time of anime tropes, most red flags discussed were merely looked over. We let too much slide in the early 2010s, and SAO was one of the biggest culprits. Fourthly, if you needed a gateway anime? SAO didn't require any sort of understanding of Japanese culture to get, which appealed to a lot of people who didn't want to think outside their box, as was the early 2010s. Despite it all, SAO was easy merchandise. Hot Topic (apologies for the American chain drop) was venturing into nerd culture and including some nice trinkets for the little nerds that hung out with their goth besties, and anime merch- including SAO- was some of the first big hits. After that? It's history. I don't know if anyone who still claims to like SAO actually is banking on nostalgia or just never gained tastes beyond a lameass horny 15 year old boy, but that boom it created gave so many light novel writers the ticket they needed to get isekai as a major genre in today's seasonal anime lineup.

Favorite Character: Asuna deserved better you motherfuckers. She actually did stuff until you get thrown into the most unnecessary slice of life arc where they begin the Sexualization. S2 cour 2 they gave her a genuinely interesting opportunity to be a lead, AND Kirito wasn't there. Still not worth watching.

Fandom: you couldn't pay me ANYTHING to check this.

[eccentric-nucleus]

the polygon video i think of the most is the cooking every zelda breath of the wild recipe one b/c it's like a gamer's introduction to cooking techniques. what do you mean food is just ingredients mixed and cooked using a succession of techniques and you can apply those techniques to anything

i think about it basically any time i have any kind of fried bread. flour water and salt plus heat is pretty much the perfect food it turns out