Desktop thread!

[Tarryk]

Rockin' a new landscape I found, this one is totally awesomesauce.

[Shigy]

Noice

[Dithyramb]

The state of my desktop at this particular time in the rotating wallpaper ;D

[Kaiaos]

oh I like, very much!

[Dithyramb]

Another day, another wallpaper

[Gridfan]

My current one.

The Milky Way Galaxy, bustling hub of our galaxy that combines a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope, an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and an X-ray view from the Chandra X-ray Observatory into one multiwavelength picture.

I ended up getting the three original components and blended it together (adjusting some color/light etc) so it looks somewhat better than the composite. (which looks kinda faded, and was also too bright as a wallpaper as it kind of outlighted the icons etc.)

This is a image of the universe. (or rather what we can see of it, our part of the galaxy mostly obscures the rest of the universe).

Remember, this isn't an approximation, this IS the universe we see (or can't see) the various components was colored to make the differences obvious, I just tweaked the balance, cropped it a little etc for my desktop use.

The center of our galaxy is somewhere in that bright swirling light on the right of the image, don't let the bright light fool you, inside Sagittarius A is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The horror, oh the horror.

Original: http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/galactic/
You can toggle the different images there, download a larger composite or the component images. (if you'd like to composite them yourself like I did)

Mine is cropped to 1920x1080 size.

PS! THis is a artist conception of how that black hole might look: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... asajpl.jpg
See that tiny black dot in the center?
Oh and the whole image is basically the center of that bright lump in my desktop.

[Kaiaos]

I had that as my background for over a year while I was doing data entry. The only change I had was when I had the lightsaber squirrels for a week.

Love it.

[Drexlore]

These are the backgrounds I am currently using for my desktops.


They are quite hefty in filesize, but just quite...awesome.

[Dithyramb]

Moar desktops!

[Mythos]

I loved Magic Online....I miss 2hg games with clan mates. I hated how the cards were like normal price though...I spent like $300 on one deck. Fun fun though! >.<

[Mivat]

My current one. Taken from the Gateway to Khitai, of course in Age of Conan. Image taken in full DX10-mode with all eyecandy on.

[Vallikat]

That makes me want to go back and level up a character.

They really did a beautiful job with the expansion.

[Mivat]

Very beautiful. There are, however, some rather nasty performance-issues in the three new lvl 80-zones, but the Gateway to Khitai is damn good. The game overall is vastly different than it was as well, and the RP-community on the server I'm on is also growing.

Good times overall.

[Lohazzen]

i just simply love this background

[Dithyramb]

rawr

[Shigy]

thats hot dithy...Isn't that how little nikki was born?

[Anonymous0]

My current desktop.

[Stefano]

Bored at work.

Good excuse to be a necromancer.

[Shigy]

Very jealous of the three monitors Stef.

[Stefano]

Very jealous of the three monitors Stef.

Thank you! Though it was a drunk decision I probably should've done without. It hurts my card to game with three with most games and even then most games do not support three monitors.