I'm lucky to have some pretty good exposures of the garber formation, and possibly the wellington. I've only found the one trace fossil, but it's one more fossil than anyone else has found for at least 30 miles or more around.
They definitely have better preservation in those areas but, I think at least some of the fossil scarcity comes from so much of the central region around the east side of OKC being covered in a patchwork of residental and private properties that prevents a lot of geologic investigation.
There are some better-quality fossils on the north side of OKC and down by Norman, too.
Most of the formation here in central Oklahoma seems to be too coarse and too poorly-cemented to preserve good fossils.
Down here in Oklahoma, there seems to have been less going on in the wellington formation, which isn't always separated from the garber formation here.
Fossils are pretty rare in these formations down here. The best I've found here is a little bioturbated sandstone.
A Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii), part of a mated pair that has taken up residence in this birdhouse.
#oklahoma #wildlife #birds
algorithm for procedural leaf venation.
'Adam Runions, Martin Fuhrer, Brendan Lane, Pavol Federl, Anne−Gaëlle Rolland−Lagan, and Przemyslaw
Prusinkiewicz. Modeling and visualization of leaf venation patterns. ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3),
pp. 702−711.'
#b3d #blender #geometrynodes
Blender sighting in the BTS of the recent Jurassic Park wifi commercial.
Looks like they were using Blender 4.5.1 LTS
#blender #b3d #blender3d
Let's do this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
With Devon energy moving their HQ out of Oklahoma, I'd like to see the state start investing in renewable energy more, not just in power generation capacity but also the actual production of the wind turbines, solar panels, energy storage, etc...
#Oklahoma #renewableenergy
Cowpen daisy magnets just got a coad of polyurethane.
#crafts #laserengraving #oklahoma #botanicalart #nativeplants
I'm definitely going to release this as an asset, maybe on superhive. I'll probably add a few other fence types too (hardware cloth, chain link, stock panel, etc...).
That would be very easy to implement. The twisting is achieved by first saving the positions of each point in the 2 curves while they occupy the same space, then offsetting them sideways by the wire width, then rotating each point around their original position.
Thank you!
This one is actually fairly simple, all things considered. It's actually the same basic steps used in making actual chicken wire: offset up, twist, offset down, twist, repeat.
I made a customizable chicken wire generator in geometry nodes. Some variables are fully-customizable (like the length of the mesh, resolution, etc...), others are limited to values corresponding to real world standards (mesh width and hole size).
Anyone interested?
#b3d #blender #geometrynodes
Made butter chicken and naan for dinner. It turned out great!
Some of the naan is stuffed with cheese.
#cooking #Indianfood #tryingnewthings #oklahoma
Cowpen daisy (Verbesina encelioides), painted and one good coat of polyurethane, how does it look?
#botany #nativeplants #crafts #laserengraving #oklahoma
Six cubed chicken thighs in a heavily-spiced yogurt sauce, about to start marinating overnight before being made into butter chicken tomorrow.
#cooking #Indianfood #spices #chicken #oklahoma #tryingnewthings
Painting goes well, apart from the smaller bits of the laser-burnt design flaking off. I'm not a fan of the way they look with the little missing pieces and there isn't an easy way to fix this once they fall off.
What do you think?
#botany #woodburning #laserengraving #oklahoma #crafts
I lasered 41 cowpen daisy refrigerator magnet pieces and sanded them.
I can't sand the centers because the grit tends to break the fine lasering up and bits of wood go everywhere... but, since the centers will be painted, that's ok.
#woodburning #lasercutting #botany #oklahoma
I just finished an ink drawing of the foliage of the extinct Permian-age conifer, Walchia piniformis.
#paleoart #paleobotany #conifers #botany
Lesmesodon edingeri, a cat sized Hyaenodont from the #Messel Pit. We only have 4 fossils from this species, all still suckling age. Would be an early horse’s nightmare as an adult though (dissection in thread) #sciart (done in 2021)
Trying to identify some rocks I recently got, as well as some that I already have.
The red one might be porphyritic rhyolite, the light brown one is definitely quartzite (and about as hard as a river stone can get) and the light grey one is chert.
#geology #rocks
First paint pass on some laser-cut native plant magnets I've been working on. These had an issue during the laser cutting, so don't mind stuff like the missing chunk on the dewberry flower.
#oklahoma #botany #crafts #art
I made carrot namul, a korean vegetable dish made with matchsticked carrots, lightly cooked in a bit of sesame oil with diced garlic and finished with chili flakes and sesame seeds.
I really like it!
#cooking #food #springtime #veggies #tryingnewthings
Another sign of spring in Oklahoma: the Chicasaw plums (Prunus angustifolia) are blooming.
These fruit trees were once a major food of native tribes and are still popular enough to be sold commercially as sand plum jelly.
#nature #nativeplants #Oklahoma #botany
This is how you know it's spring in Oklahoma: blooming redbud trees (Cercis canadensis)!
There are so many bees pollinating these trees that you can hear the buzzing from 30 feet away.
#botany #nativeplants #redbud #oklahoma #nature
Some type of bracket fungi (Trametes sp.?) Found growing on a fallen post oak (Quercus stellata) log in the forest at County Line.
#fungi #nature #oklahoma
Logged a new species on the property today: western soapberry (Sapindus saponaria).
Native to North America, the toxic berries of this small tree contain high levels of saponins which can function as a sort of soap when mixed with water.
#Nature #Botany #NativePlants #Oklahoma
