Castle Arenberg - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Heverlee, Belgium

Castle Arenberg - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Heverlee, Belgium

Image by Trodel
Arenberg Castle is a castle in Heverlee close to Leuven in Belgium. It is surrounded by a park. The site had been the castle of the lords of Heverlee since the 12th century, but this family became impoverished and had to sell the site in 1445 to the Croÿ family from Picardy.

Duke Charles III of Croy sold the castle and its grounds to the Catholic University of Leuven, where it became an expanded natural sciences and engineering campus in the style of an American university. The castle itself is the main building of the Faculty of Engineering and is open to the public.

Picture by Juhanson
Picture of the day for 10 January 2009
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Original at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_Arenberg,_Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven_adj.jpg

TYPESENSES »Parfumerie Script Pro« ❖ Le Pierrot (for widescreen displays)

Image by arnoKath
Wallpaper 1920x1200

UPDATED!

Just another one! This amazing script face invites to play.

Typeface in use:

Sabrina Mariela Lopez’ (TYPESENSES) 2nd charming, stunningly beautiful script face »Parfumerie Script Pro«.

Parfumerie Script Pro: After the success of Aphrodite Slim (One of MyFonts' best fonts of 2009, which was co-designed with Maximiliano Sproviero) Typesenses presents Parfumerie Script, designed by Sabrina Lopez. With more than 2500 glyphs, Parfumerie is unique amongst the others in its style because it is based on the author’s calligraphy. One of its variables is a Decorative option which combines Copperplate Calligraphy with an ornamental form native of Buenos Aires (where Sabrina lives), the ‘Filete Portenio’, which makes it look original amongst the other fonts.
Sabrina has exclusively designed this font for two years, with an obsessive adjustment, in order to provide the world with one of the best scripts ever made. With the idea of ‘Endless way to write a word’, lots of glyphs were Open-type programmed so that users can dive into many alternates and ligatures according to their language.
Parfumerie, as its name reflects, is attractive like a fragrance, delicate, elegant, sophisticated, feminine, sensual, glamorous, ornamental and decorative. It works perfect in the world of perfumes, make up, fashion, weddings, greeting cards, wines, chocolates, romantic novels, magazines, books. It is also versatile enough to be used in any kind of work because the user can choose between a wide range of possibilities: Standard Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, Required Ligatures, Contextual Ligatures, Historical Ligatures, Swashes, Stylistic Alternates, Titling, Contextual Alternates, Historical Forms, Initial Forms, Terminal Forms #1 #2 #3, 19 stylistic sets, 78 ornaments, 4 options of numbers, and up to 20 alternates per glyph in the Pro Version.
Buying Choices:
-Pro Version: With more than 2500 glyphs, It contains all the variants programmed with OpenType. The user should use the OpenType palette for some features and for others, the glyphs palette manually.
-Decorative: With more than 700 glyphs, this original option contains the Decorative variable with its own terminal forms, initial forms, ligatures, swashes, stylistic alternates, historical forms, ornamentsÖ programmed with OpenType.
-Curly: With more than 600 glyphs, It contains the Curly variable with its own terminal forms, initial forms, ligatures, swashes, stylistic alternates, ornaments programmed with OpenType.
-Regular: With more than 1000 glyphs, It contains the Regular and Swash variable, with their own terminal forms, initial forms, ligatures, stylistic alternates, 2 stylistic sets, ornaments programmed with OpenType.
-Text: With more than 500 glyphs, It contains the text variable, ideal for paragraphs because its ascenders and descenders are shorter. It includes its own terminal forms, initial forms, ligatures, and ornaments programmed with OpenType.
-Old Style: With more than 500 glyphs, It contains the Old Style variable with its own terminal forms, initial forms, ligatures, and ornaments programmed with OpenType.
-Ornaments: It includes 78 ornaments. The same than the other variables but It is sold separately so it can be used in programs that do not support OpenType.

Mars's Victoria Crater in False Color [1680x1050]

Image by DUCKofD3ATH
Image source: NASA

A promontory nicknamed "Cape Verde" can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color picture taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover took this picture on martian day, or sol, 1329 (Oct. 20, 2007), more than a month after it began descending down the crater walls – and just 9 sols shy of its second Martian birthday on sol 1338 (Oct. 29, 2007). Opportunity landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 25, 2004. That's nearly four years ago on Earth, but only two on Mars because Mars takes longer to travel around the sun than Earth. One Martian year equals 687 Earth days.

This view was taken using three panoramic-camera filters, admitting light with wavelengths centered at 750 nanometers (near infrared), 530 nanometers (green) and 430 nanometers (violet).

NOTE: I modified the original false color image to add a false color sky. Original images are here:

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/sol-1329f.html

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/sol-1329atc.html

work in progress

Image by thepixlpusher
started this the other night wanted to see if I could get some feedback. If you go to thepixlpusher.com to see the original photo.