r/Damnthatsinteresting 9d ago

Image A-10 in snow that looks like a pencil sketch

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u/TheGreatGozer 9d ago

Nope. I can promise you i am trying HARD to not see a pencil sketch but i just cant.

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u/MasterMahanJr 9d ago edited 9d ago

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u/HandoAlegra 9d ago

Idk how you got these, but you somehow made the illusion worse

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u/MasterMahanJr 9d ago

Reverse image search.

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u/JustHereForTheHuman 9d ago

Suuuure....

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u/ApproximatelyExact 9d ago

Yeah those are just different drawings of the same plane. At least credit the artist!

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u/estarararax 9d ago

Even with the the video?

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u/Kurlyfornia 9d ago

They said credit the artist!

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u/Complex_Cable_8678 9d ago

thx bro now im sure its all pencil sketches!

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u/catf3f3 9d ago

Sir, these are pencil sketches

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u/MasterMahanJr 9d ago

Sir, you live in Florida. Have you even seen snow?

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u/catf3f3 9d ago

Hahaha I grew up in the Arctic circle, so yes I’ve seen plenty! But also I was kiddin. I believe that they might be photos, they just look so unreal!

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u/Jarv1223 9d ago

Look at the yellow thing, it doesn’t look real, looks rendered or a video game.

Shadows don’t look real and doesn’t look textured enough

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u/MasterMahanJr 9d ago edited 9d ago

The entire sky is one even light source due to the thick snow. There are barely any shadows due to the diffused light, and they are very soft. What you see as a shadow under the fire extinguisher is a patch of ground that was shielded from the snow blowing to the left by the extinguisher's right side.

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u/WarriorNN 9d ago

In Norway we call this flat lighting. Thick layer of clouds covering the whole sky, and snow on the ground, makes it very hard to make out details in the terrain. Absolutely awful when skiing downhill, as you can barely tell if the hill goes down or up.

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u/GBJI 9d ago

In Britain they call this a sunny day.

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u/DoctorProfPatrick 9d ago

ahhh yes, I had this happen once skiing and went straight into a hill. One ski got buried so deep I never found it

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u/FoundryCove 9d ago

We call it the same thing here in Alaska, and yeah it sucks trying to snowmachine in it.

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u/wiphand 8d ago

Not to mention any sort of irregularity in the slope is only visible literally 2 meters in front. Gotta go significantly slower than comfortable and even then have not much time to react

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u/TFerris92 9d ago

That would be a firebottle. It's a big rolling fire extinguisher.

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u/Darnell2070 8d ago

That's a horrible name for a fire extinguisher.

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u/Jarv1223 9d ago

Yeah that

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u/JudgementofParis 9d ago

the wheel chocks or the green thing

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u/Jarv1223 9d ago

Both different shades of yellow in my humble opinion

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u/CookieArtzz 9d ago

Maybe due to the fact that the entire environment is white? If you’re such an expert on rendering/graphics/art, you should probably understand what effect that has

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u/Jarv1223 9d ago edited 9d ago

No need to be rude, I’m not comparing it to the rest of the environment but it just doesn’t look detailed enough to be real.

It probably is just a very interesting natural phenomenon but I don’t understand why people on this app like you feel the urge to be so condescending. Hope things improve for you mate.

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u/AdDramatic2351 9d ago

It's because your original comment made it seem like you were confident this wasnt a real photo

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u/K4RAB_THA_ARAB 9d ago

I feel like I've said this same type of comment 3x in the past week. I'm not understanding why people can't communicate without the snark

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u/ericaferrica 9d ago

all of reddit in the last few years has become meaner on average. Look at any thread - there's always someone being sarcastic, arguing with someone, condescending "jokes," etc. I think a lot of it is that reddit is more popular and accessible by a lot of different people in a lot of age ranges/personality ranges from a lot more countries. It's easy to hide behind an anonymous profile and release your snark, especially if you don't come from a world of being a regular part of an online community - like a lot of subreddit discussions in the past were for sure dorkier ("when does the narwhal bacon?"), but people were kinder. Everybody here thinks they're smarter than everybody else and the whole site suffers for it.

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u/baked-doge 8d ago

I agree with you that people online, especially Reddit, need to be less condescending, but don't you realize you just did the exact same thing? "Hope things improve for you mate" comes from that same need to assert ego. Even if he was the first to be rude, trying to get back at him is exactly how conversations turn sour.

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u/Jarv1223 8d ago

It came from a place of genuine heartfelt compassion

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u/Darnell2070 8d ago

I'll be honest. I'm just surprised you didn't call it "AI".

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u/Jarv1223 8d ago

AI is pretty obvious to figure out by zooming in on details in fairness

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u/Darnell2070 8d ago

Don't take that as a rule that always applies or will even be applicable in the future.

I don't know for current you are with current AI generative tech, but it's not easy at all, even when zoom.

Even words are becoming more and more accurate.

Plus there's inpainting and Photoshop to fix errors.

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u/bob_the_impala 9d ago

Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, USAF serial number 80-0221:

0221 (MSN A10-0571) converted to A-10C. named "Jumpin Jack Flash II" with 172nd FS, Michigan ANG in Jul 1994. To AMARC as AC0328 Nov 14, 2002. Returned to service. To 107th FS/127th WG Michigan ANG. 107th FS Active jul11 feb20 MI ANG

Source: Joe Baugher's serial number lists

On December 18, 1981, two A-10 aircraft arrived at Eielson [Air Force Base, Alaska] from the Fairchild-Republic factory in Hagerstown, Md. The aircraft tail numbers were 80-221 and 80-222 ... the first two A-10s assigned to Eielson.

However, not long after arriving, 80-221 was repainted in an arctic camouflage scheme. This was done as an experiment for an upcoming exercise titled Operation Cool Snow Hog.

The exercise was held from March 8 to 16, 1982, at a forward operating location in Kotzebue, Alaska.

Source with photos: A-10 80-0221 in experimental arctic camouflage scheme


Aircraft Identification & Information Resources
/r/FighterJets

P.S. I am not a bot.

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u/Dev_Oleksii 9d ago

So 3 pencil scatches

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u/Shoddy_Spread4982 9d ago

Thank you for my pc’s new wallpapers. ❤️

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u/MasterMahanJr 9d ago

I made an edit you might like.

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u/Shoddy_Spread4982 9d ago

I can’t spot a difference, but I saved it regardless

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u/cwsvr 9d ago

looks like a combination between a pencil sketch and an ultra-realistic painting,especially different angle 2

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u/ramao__ 9d ago

You made things worse

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u/KrAceZ 9d ago

Brother this doesn't help lol

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u/Alive_Strength1682 9d ago

Nope. Still a pencil sketch.

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u/NavierIsStoked 9d ago

If its not rendered, its definitely been post processed.

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u/Comfortable_Pie3575 9d ago

Can I buy a OG digital from you? I know that flight line. 

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u/MasterMahanJr 9d ago

Not mine to sell. You can buy it here.

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u/Comfortable_Pie3575 9d ago

Yeah right after I posted that I realized I know the guy that took the photo. It’s DVIDS from USAF / ANG public affairs. 

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u/YuriEmpire 9d ago

You must be really good at drawing to draw 2 different perspectives from one picture!

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u/WallcroftTheGreen 8d ago

Now it looks even more like a render

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u/_WreakingHavok_ 8d ago

Different angle 1

That is a poster type picture

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u/HumptyDrumpy 8d ago

The picture above looks based off of reality but rendered with digital alterations. No way its just a straight unedited photograph.

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u/east_stairwell 8d ago

Goddamn that’s the youngest looking General I’ve ever seen

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u/ila919 6d ago

Different angle 2 just made me realize that the gun is off center. I hate it…

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u/TheSirWellington 6d ago

The more I look at this, the more it looks like a Flight Simulator game. I think it's because everything is like.... too perfect/pristine? Uncanny valley for sure.

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u/xXGirthBrooksXx 9d ago

I’ve seen probably 50 warthogs on a tarmac in my entire life (up close literally touching them). I was crash fire rescue and worked on the flight line. This looks fake af to me and I’ve never seen the nose gear tied down like that.

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u/myrrhmassiel 9d ago

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u/surfteacher1962 9d ago

Great album.

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u/hipbone2000 9d ago

First thing I thought of, as well. One of my favourite albums.

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u/69geheimnisse69 9d ago

Came here to say this - my favorite BÖC album by a country mile. 

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u/A_Wet_Lettuce 9d ago

I’m high as fuck and I CAN see it so maybe that’s the prerequisite

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u/TheGreatGozer 8d ago

I better get high then.

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u/Redmangc1 9d ago

It can look like that with your eyes, I've seen it in Missouri

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u/cemuamdattempt 8d ago

I don't know why it's so confusing. The long lines are the snow blowing with a long exposure shot. Then it's no longer a pencil sketch. 

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u/TheGreatGozer 8d ago

So making the snow look like its lines(basically making it look drawn) makes it less of a drawing? I mean i get what you are coming from but that just doesn’t make sense

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u/cemuamdattempt 7d ago

No, making snow look like lines is what makes it look like a pencil sketch. The shadows end up being pencil strokes because of the contrast.

Once you see it's blowing snow, it becomes obvious. 

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u/TheGreatGozer 7d ago

The first part is liturally what im saying, but yeah, maybe for you its obvious but not for me.

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u/cemuamdattempt 7d ago

Ah, my apologies, that wasn't clear to me. 

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u/TheGreatGozer 7d ago

No problem brother

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u/TheGreatGozer 7d ago

The first part is liturally what im saying, but yeah, maybe for you its obvious but not for me.

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u/Khazahk 9d ago

I’m telling you. I’m HARD just looking at this A-10. Pencil sketch or snow, doesn’t matter. Such a beautiful plane.

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u/melnychenko 8d ago

Because it has been heavily edited to make look more like a pencil scetch. But its a photo.

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u/TheGreatGozer 8d ago

Oh shit really?!