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are there any sites with starship or space type wallpaper (not star
wars or star trek, please)?
wars or star trek, please)?
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http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=space+theme+wallpaper
Watch out for spyware or "spy"paper.
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Grant Abraham
Space.com has a good listing of wallpapers:
http://space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/
A favorite space artist of mine is Greg Martin:
http://www.artofgregmartin.com
NASA has real space art on its gallery page:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html
There's a good chance you can find other space wallpapers at various
user-contributed art sites such as DeviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) and
Customize.org (http://www.customize.org).
http://space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/
A favorite space artist of mine is Greg Martin:
http://www.artofgregmartin.com
NASA has real space art on its gallery page:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html
There's a good chance you can find other space wallpapers at various
user-contributed art sites such as DeviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) and
Customize.org (http://www.customize.org).
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Brian Pipa
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derelict
Space.com spoils their images with their logo. Virtually all of their
images can be found elsewhere without the distraction of a big ugly
blemish.
visualparadox and digitalblasphemy also do some nice digital art. I
think you have to pay now to get the high-resolution images off their
website, but it's worth browsing their thumbnails and low-resolution
images. They occasionally post some random samplings on
alt.binaries.pictures.wallpaper.
It occurs to me that there's also a binaries group for scifi images. I
used to download a lot of space art from the group but lost interest
when NASA and the HST started turning out all those mind-blowing photos.
I've forgotten the newsgroup name but it shouldn't be hard to find - it
was in the alt.binaries hierarchy and had "scifi" in it. There's also
alt.binaries.dragonz hierarchy. That's mostly sword-and-sorcery postings
but occasionally someone will post a nice space series.
If you're on a low-bandwith connection, you'll find
http://www.usenetbinaries.com useful. It costs to download off the
website but you can browse the thumbnails for free. I use the thumbnails
to see what's worth downloading and then download it off my news
account. Their filename display sucks but you can get the full filename
by positioning your cursor over the thumbnail and looking at the bottom
of your browser.
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derelict said:
*WOW* Now thats cool! Thx.
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Brian Pipa said:
I think I just found my favorite wallpaper site. Thanks!
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derelict
Glad it helped.
It looks like the remailers ate another post I made before that so I'm
going to post it again. This ensures that my first post will then show
up along with this repost so that everyone can flame me endlessly for
multiple-posting.
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This is my favorite free site for Hubble images:
<http://www.spacetelescope.org/bin/images.pl?searchtype=wallpaper>
Caedes also includes space exploration and shots of the planets in
addition to deep-space shots. It's a pay site but you do get a certain
number of images before they shut you off and start demanding money. I
don't recall how many freebies they allow, but anyway it would be wise
to browse the thumbnails and prioritize before downloading. Skip their
deep-space shots - most can be found on the above Hubble site and are
often of better quality.
<http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Gallery&gallery=space>
Finally, you can get some incredible Mars images from the Mars Rover
site:
<http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/>
The index on that page will give you access to panoramic shots from
Opportunity and to earlier Mars images gathered by both rovers. You'll
have to crop and resize to make these fit but some of them make
stupendous wallpapers. Some of the images come in right-left pairs so
if you have shutter glasses or some other 3D you can turn them into
true-color 3D images of Mars. The site also has some anaglyphs, 3D
images that you view with red/blue glasses. If you can'd find them
locally, you can buy some really nice 3D glasses online for about $6-$8
(sorry, I don't have the URL but Google should turn up a few places. You
might also ask in <or <
NASA and the JPL have some other sites scattered around where you can
obtain the original high-quality space images from which all those other
wallpapers are derived, but I don't know of any centralized site that
makes it easy. You pretty much have to figure out which NASA project
would gather the kinds of images you're after and then dig around the
NASA and JPL sites to find the find project pages. (BTW www.nasa.com is
a porn site, the real NASA is at <http://www.nasa.gov>)
It's slower and the quality is sometimes poor because they've been
mucked with so much, but you could also ask on
<Just tell them what resolution
you need and what sort of images you're looking for and usually someone
will post a bunch. I don't recall the name but there's also a binaries
newsgroup for 3d images where space shots converted to 3D are sometimes
posted.
If your version of Windows requires that wallpapers be in the BMP
format, you can use a wallpaper manager that will do the conversion
on-the-fly. I'm a Linux user but I'm sure someone here can recommend a
good freebie for Windows.