God sleeps in the minerals

bmordue

God, or Cthulhu?

sunkeeh

They're minerals, Marie!

srslyTrying2hlp

I didnt like the title. Even if the pictures are nice.

cwmoore

“Are you familiar with the Stone Tape Theory?” (Post Malone’s response in a Joe Rogan interview when asked about McKenna’s Stoned Ape Theory)

hmokiguess

Don't know why, but I think of Aliens instead. Gorgeous pictures!

vscode-rest

The Cubes are the most captivating to me. Organic mishmash of polyhedra and assorted blobs is one thing, but perfect cubes is uniquely striking.

cheevly

Imagine associating god with some minerals.

sawjet

The Crystals. They speak to me.

cgannett

pretty crystals are pretty, gonna file this under "cool game dev inspo"

cbolton

The first picture looks like aura quartz to me (crystal with an artificial metal coating). Is it natural?

Uncle_Brumpus

These types of huge perfect specimens always take my breath away when I am able to see them in person. To think that this kind of stuff just kinda exists buried in the earth... I am a part of a local mineral club which hosts several "field trips" a year to various mineralogically interesting locations (most of which aren't accessible as an individual, like private land and special digs at active mining/quarrying sites on their days off). I have never found anything even remotely as beautiful as the specimens shown, but the small collection of mildly interesting things that I've smashed out of the earth with my own 2 hands is amazingly satisfying to me. You don't even have to be a super dedicated "rock nerd" to take part, I highly recommend looking for local mineral clubs to join if this even remotely interests you. It's really a ton of fun!

zokier

First thought in my head was that these would make great demos for 3DGS: both geometry and light interactions are non-trivial. I imagine that makes them difficult to capture with traditional photogrammetry

shevy-java

Some of these look pretty cool actually. I don't see any god though, but I think I saw godzilla hiding in one of those shapes.

deadbabe

Coming across perfect cubes in the wild must be insane

navane

Prague national History Museum has an amazing collection of these. Truly a hidden gem.

cpursley

Tellus in Georgia has an incredible collection: https://tellusmuseum.org/exhibit/weinman-mineral-gallery/

shivaniShimpi_

oh my god, this is gorg. i love museums for the same exact thing. there's so much you donno and every visit just leaves me in awe. thank you for sharing it. big wide bful world

mannanj

The shamans would test your ability of spirit by qualifying if you "Know the Stone People". They are the oldest beings, the keepers of deep wisdom and knowledge.

jrsdav

Kind of fun to think that the crystalline structure of minerals is an "echo" of their arrangement of atoms. A repeating pattern on a scale we can actually observe.