Fish Friday: Orange Roughy by Don Relyea

Posted by Joel Johnson, March 13, 2009 1:20 PM |
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This piece, titled "Orange Roughy", from digital artist Don Relyea, was inspired by a dinner his wife made. [ScienceBlogs/Deep Sea News (Now At Discovery]

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#1 posted by royaltrux Author Profile Page, March 13, 2009 1:29 PM

Did he get food poisoning?

(I'm not saying I don't like it - looks kind of like an integrated circuit.)

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#2 posted by Rodney Author Profile Page, March 13, 2009 1:58 PM

Speaking of Friday: Where's the booze-as-gadget post?

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#3 posted by ZoopyFunk , March 13, 2009 2:31 PM

Looks like the motherboard of my dreams. My god, did I just say that?

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#4 posted by Joel Johnson Author Profile Page, March 13, 2009 2:36 PM

@Rodney No one sent me any more booze! All I've been drinking this week is Sazarac and Bulleit.

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#5 posted by wastrel , March 13, 2009 3:15 PM

I love this.

Here's the Don's blogpost about it, which answered my question, it was procedurally generated:

http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/04/23

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#6 posted by Anonymous , March 13, 2009 4:12 PM

People should stop eating Orange Roughy, they take like 20 years to reach breeding age, and are being driven extinct by fishing.

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#7 posted by Elvis Pelt , March 13, 2009 7:50 PM

All hail the power of Corel Draw! (Aw, just kidding.)

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#8 posted by PaulR , March 14, 2009 5:32 AM

It looks like the addressing/decoding section of the 6502 processor, if you ask me...

And even if you don't ask me, it still looks like the addressing/decoding section of the 6502 processor.

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#10 posted by Anonymous , March 14, 2009 8:21 AM

This is just for you, Joel... mebbe you could tell us what happened to brownlee? Not nasty internal politics, but is he ok and what he's up to now, if anything?

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#11 posted by Anonymous , March 14, 2009 9:35 AM

Can you please update our link to (deepseanews.com). We are not longer at Discover. The link for the above post is...

http://deepseanews.com/2008/09/tgif-friday-deep-sea-picture-091208/

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#12 posted by Rob Beschizza Author Profile Page, March 16, 2009 5:07 AM

Brownlee is no longer with us. I believe he is in Mauritius.

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