Sundogs!

Saw a faint sundog today on the way home, yay! 

Sundogs are caused by ice crystals floating high in the atmosphere. When sunlight enters the crystal on the way to earth, it is bent, so when the light reaches the viewer, it looks like it came from a different point in the sky. If a whole bunch of crystals are the same size and shape, they'll all make the light look like it's coming from the same fake-sun location. To get a fake sun in this location, you need flat, hexagonal crystals, like bathroom tiles, floating horizontally.

They normally show up in matched pairs, one on each side of the sun, but I couldn't spot the other one.

A collection of ... things. Mostly tan things.

These images were generated by combining images output by the BigGAN artificial intelligences, using the ganbreeder website. BigGAN is a program that can generate images in various categories; ganbreeder lets you combine categories. The AI is particularly good at combining mechanical and organic forms, but mostly in a really unsettling way.

It's a lot of fun, and I wish I had any use for slightly creepy, dreamlike, machine generated images, like if I was writing a mildly unsettling RPG that needed some illustrations, or a book of poetry about being trapped between the walls of the world, down where the gears are.
( Six largeish images )

Here are other people's creations, some of which are really incredible. Like this one.