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[Nexii Malthus]

I always wondered how these materials really look liked, it helps greatly for the imagination when trying to picture their fortress instead of only seeing the abstracted colours.

After seeing the Bismuth picture in Piecewises' post http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=40103.msg697822#msg697822.

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I just had to go and post this thread.

So I'll start off:

Bauxite Layer on top of a Kaolinite Layer

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Chalk Cliff

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Magnetite

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Actually, screw this, I found this awesome Geosciences gallery;
http://www.tasaclips.com/photos.html

No wonder Dwarfs love rock, this is so awesome.

[Im_Sparks]

Sulfur looks incredibly badass.

I fuckin' love this gallery, thanks.

[Nexii Malthus]

Yeah, come to think of it, it looks like a few of the colours are wrong. Orthoclase looks are LOT more creamy than golden for instance. Bauxite is far more orangey red.

Malachite just looks incredibly alien.

I have always imagined Dwarf Fortresses looking more like a boring shades of grey and murky mud. But these pictures really just add to absolute surrealism, I can really imagine the castle walls and all made of these bad ass materials taken from the underground. Just totally adds to the immersion.

[Arkose]

Yeah, as far as colors go, DF doesn't really get the feldspars entirely right: orthoclase usually ranges from pink to white, and microcline is MOSTLY colored white; only the rare variety amazonite is bluish-green.

[Armok]

Wow!  That galery is a real gem!  (pun intended)

My favorites:

Spoiler: Prettyyyyyy! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  Dwarfiest thing EVER! (click to show/hide)

[Grimlocke]

orpiment reminds me of beer... mmmmmm beeeeer. *drool*

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EDIT: this is far more dwarven.

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It menaces with spikes!

[cerapa]

You made my fortresses look awesome beyond words.

[Terbert]

I think some people need to get acquainted with Bismuth

[XSI]

Awesome, right after I've build a mini-monument to myself using realgar in a successiongame, now that's a rock to use for monuments, so pretty..

*Bookmarks the gallery*

Edit: Hey, where's Olivine?

[TheDJ17]

Awesome, right after I've build a mini-monument to myself using realgar in a successiongame, now that's a rock to use for monuments, so pretty..

*Bookmarks the gallery*

Edit: Hey, where's Olivine?

The Dwarves in Toady's Dev Log stole it all.

[Nexii Malthus]

I'm glad I managed to reinvent the otherwise maddening useless stone into valuable picturesque material. I'd eventually see 3D visualizers using real material textures and Artists' drawings becoming much more vibrant.

[Jimmy]

Only Geologists and Dwarf Fortress players get this excited about pictures of rocks. Although for Geologists it's professional, whereas for Dwarf Fortress players it's more like porn.

[Shima]

Mmmmm, those rocks are sexy.

[Jualin]

Quartz isn't anywhere as trippy as bismuth, geothite, and, heck, even millerite sometimes. But it has scale in spades.

Spoiler: The motherlode (click to show/hide)

[Duke 2.0]

Only Geologists and Dwarf Fortress players get this excited about pictures of rocks. Although for Geologists it's professional, whereas for Dwarf Fortress players it's more like porn.

This could quite well explain our forum troubles. We must import more stone images!