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Mercury - The Planet. I'm back again with another Blender project, this time I created the planet Mercury, the planet that is closest to our Solar System's Sun. Wikipedia: Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets. It is named after the Roman god Mercurius (Mercury), god of commerce, messenger of the gods, and mediator between gods and mortals, corresponding to the Greek god Hermes (Ἑρμῆς). Like Venus, Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit as an inferior planet; its apparent distance from the Sun as viewed from Earth never exceeds 28°. This proximity to the Sun means the planet can only be seen near the western horizon after sunset or the eastern horizon before sunrise, usually in twilight. At this time, it may appear as a bright star-like object, but is more difficult to observe than Venus. From Earth, the planet telescopically displays the complete range of phases, similar to Venus and the Moon, which recurs over its synodic period of approximately 116 days. Due to its synodic proximity to Earth, Mercury is most often the closest planet to Earth, with Venus periodically taking this role. Mercury rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System. It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun. As seen from the Sun, in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion, it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years. An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two Mercurian years. Mercury's axis has the smallest tilt of any of the Solar System's planets (about 1⁄30 degree). Its orbital eccentricity is the largest of all known planets in the Solar System; at perihelion, Mercury's distance from the Sun is only about two-thirds (or 66%) of its distance at aphelion. Mercury's surface appears heavily cratered and is similar in appearance to the Moon's, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Having almost no atmosphere to retain heat, it has surface temperatures that vary diurnally more than on any other planet in the Solar System, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day across the equatorial regions. The polar regions are constantly below 180 K (−93 °C; −136 °F). The planet has no natural satellites. Two spacecraft have visited Mercury: Mariner 10 flew by in 1974 and 1975; and MESSENGER, launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4,000 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015. The BepiColombo spacecraft is planned to arrive at Mercury in 2025. Physical characteristics: Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, and is a rocky body like Earth. It is the smallest planet in the Solar System, with an equatorial radius of 2,439.7 kilometres (1,516.0 mi). Mercury is also smaller—albeit more massive—than the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, Ganymede and Titan. Mercury consists of approximately 70% metallic and 30% silicate material. Orbit, rotation, and longitude Orbit of Mercury (2006): Animation of Mercury's and Earth's revolution around the Sun. Mercury has the most eccentric orbit of all the planets in the Solar System; its eccentricity is 0.21 with its distance from the Sun ranging from 46,000,000 to 70,000,000 km (29,000,000 to 43,000,000 mi). It takes 87.969 Earth days to complete an orbit. The diagram illustrates the effects of the eccentricity, showing Mercury's orbit overlaid with a circular orbit having the same semi-major axis. Mercury's higher velocity when it is near perihelion is clear from the greater distance it covers in each 5-day interval. In the diagram, the varying distance of Mercury to the Sun is represented by the size of the planet, which is inversely proportional to Mercury's distance from the Sun. This varying distance to the Sun leads to Mercury's surface being flexed by tidal bulges raised by the Sun that are about 17 times stronger than the Moon's on Earth. Combined with a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance of the planet's rotation around its axis, it also results in complex variations of the surface temperature. The resonance makes a single solar day (the length between two meridian transits of the Sun) on Mercury last exactly two Mercury years, or about 176 Earth days. Created in Blender 3.4.1 on April 6th, 2023. Thanks to Free3D.com for a gray colorless version of the Mariner 10 3D model. I added in the color and shading. Music: Hades Decent by Unknown Artist. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Had to wait for the train the other morning on the way to work. “Last Train To Clarksdale” by The Monkees.

Mars - The Planet. Another Blender project in my series of planets that I have created using Blender version 3.4.1. For this video, I arranged the two moons Phobos and Deimos to orbit Mars, the moon Phobos being closest to Mars at 3,700 miles from its surface, and it orbits Mars every 7 hours and 39 minutes. The moon Deimos, which is one-seventh the mass of Phobos, orbits at a distance of 14,577 miles for Mars surface, and it takes Deimos about 30 hours and 20 minutes for one rotation around Mars. Both moons Phobos and Deimos are not shaped like conventional moons usually are. Both are oblong, and Phobos is shaped like a potato. Unfortunately for this project, I was not able to give axis rotations to either of the the two moons. Hopefully I'll be able to figure that feature out in future Blender projects. Phobos: 0:07 Deimos: 0:20 MarCO: 0:44 Maven: 0:58 Odysse: 1:14 Curiosity: 1:28 Spirit Explorer: 1:54 Bonus Footage: 6:53 From solarsystem.NASA.gov: Size & Distance: With a radius of 2,106 miles (3,390 kilometers), Mars is about half the size of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry. From an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million kilometers), Mars is 1.5 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 13 minutes to travel from the Sun to Mars. Orbit & Rotation: As Mars orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours, which is very similar to one day on Earth (23.9 hours). Martian days are called sols – short for "solar day." A year on Mars lasts 669.6 sols, which is the same as 687 Earth days. Moons: Phobos and Deimos, that may be captured asteroids. They're potato-shaped because they have too little mass for gravity to make them spherical. The moons get their names from the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek god of war, Ares. Phobos, the innermost and larger moon, is heavily cratered, with deep grooves on its surface. It is slowly moving towards Mars and will crash into the planet or break apart in about 50 million years. Deimos is about half as big as Phobos and orbits two and a half times farther away from Mars. Oddly-shaped Deimos is covered in loose dirt that often fills the craters on its surface, making it appear smoother than pockmarked Phobos. MarCO Spacecraft(Mars Cube One): On May 5, 2018, NASA launched a spacecraft called InSight that landed on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018. Riding along with InSight were two CubeSats—the first of this kind of spacecraft to fly to deep space. The CubeSats were part of a technology demonstration mission called Mars Cube One (MarCO). The MarCO twins were nicknamed EVE and WALL-E after characters from Pixar's "WALL-E" movie. The spacecraft provided an experimental communications relay to let scientists on Earth know quickly about InSight's landing. MarCO A and B successfully completed their missions on Nov. 26, 2018. WALL-E was last heard from on Dec. 29, 2018; EVE on Jan. 4, 2019. MAVEN Mars Orbiter: NASA's MAVEN is currently orbiting Mars studying the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet. In early 2019, MAVEN was shifted to a lower orbit to prepare it to take on additional responsibility as a data-relay satellite for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. MAVEN's mission was designed for two years, but the spacecraft has enough fuel to operate through 2030. Mars Odyssey Probe: NASA's Mars Odyssey holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth. It's been in orbit since Oct. 24, 2001. The spacecraft's main mission is to investigate the Martian environment and to provide key information on hazards future explorers might face. Mars Curiosity Rover(MSL): NASA's Curiosity is the largest and most advanced rover ever sent to Mars. The car-sized rover is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Curiosity's ongoing mission is to study the ancient habitability and the potential for life on Mars. The rover began its first drive on Mars Aug. 29, 2012. The rover is about as tall as a basketball player and uses a 7-foot (2-meter) arm to place tools close to rocks for study. Mars Spirit Explorer Rover: NASA's Spirit rover—and its twin Opportunity—studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. Spirit uncovered strong evidence that Mars was once much wetter than it is now. Described as a "wonderful workhorse"—Spirit operated for 6 years, 2 months, and 19 days, more than 25 times its original intended lifetime. The rover traveled 4.8 miles (7.73 kilometers) across the Martian plains. Music: "Stems Bass Bus" - by Doctor Dreamchip. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

A loony bird banging its head against the steel top of a neighbors backyard gazebo.  this bird shows up every day to bang its head in this fashion. Over and over and over again. Is this a woodpecker? Or is it a steelpecker? Or maybe it’s a metalpecker. . What do you think? 

Jupiter - The Planet. Another Blender planet project I created using version 3.4.1. For this video, I figured out how to incorporate twinkling stars, and was able to perfect my shooting stars a little better as well. If you pay attention, Pioneer 11, the NASA satellite that was launched in the early 2000's, will make an appearance and will do a pass by Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon and Venus, and it has been observed since prehistoric times. It was named after Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religion. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen, followed by helium, which constitutes a quarter of its mass and a tenth of its volume. The ongoing contraction of Jupiter's interior generates more heat than the planet receives from the Sun. Because of its rapid rotation rate of 1 rotation per 10 hours, the planet's shape is an oblate spheroid: it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator. The outer atmosphere is divided into a series of latitudinal bands, with turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result of this is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm which has been observed since at least 1831. Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system and has a powerful magnetosphere. The planet's magnetic tail is nearly 800 million kilometres (5.3 astronomical units; 500 million miles) long. Jupiter has 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Ganymede, the largest of the four, is larger than the planet Mercury. Callisto is the second largest; Io and Europa are approximately the size of Earth's moon. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter, making its closest approach to the planet in December 1973. Jupiter has since been explored by multiple robotic spacecraft, beginning with the Pioneer and Voyager flyby missions from 1973 to 1979. The Galileo orbiter arrived in orbit around Jupiter in 1995. In 2007, New Horizons visited Jupiter for a gravity assist to increase its speed and bend its trajectory on the way to Pluto. The latest probe to visit Jupiter, Juno, entered its orbit in July 2016. Future targets for exploration in the Jupiter system include its moon Europa, which probably has an ice-covered liquid ocean which scientists think could sustain life. Jupiter is a gas giant, being primarily composed of gas and liquid rather than solid matter. It is the largest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter of 142,984 km (88,846 mi) at its equator.[36] The average density of Jupiter, 1.326 g/cm3, is about the same as simple syrup (syrup USP),[37] and is lower than those of the four terrestrial planets. Pioneer 11: 4:00 This video was created on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023. Music: Deep Breathing Beast With Reverse Clicks - by dude awesome. Credit: Pioneer 11 Blender model created by Danny Gallegos on Sketchfab. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

In this quick tutorial I reveal one of the hidden features inside of Blender that many Blender users don't know about. I call it "addressing the elephant in the room". Blender version 3.4.1. Check out my Blender moon creation: https://youtu.be/0YDkBVIoLf8 If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by! This video was created on Saturday, March 25th, 2023. Note: This is a parody on Youtube Blender tutorials, it is a joke and not intended to be serious. But in the future, I will be coming out with serious Blender tutorials, explaining how to do certain features that some Blender beginners might know about. So stay tuned!

The Moon - This is what the visual would look like if our Moon rotated on an axis. Since the Moon does not rotate, all we see is the same surface side every night. A bit of a phenomenon as far as satellite moons go in our Solar System, and maybe even in all of the Milky Way Galaxy. Notice all the craters that have been caused by meteors over the millions of years. I put this video together in Blender, version 3.4.1, using a Moon image provided by NASA. It is pretty much an accurate depiction of the Moon if we were to see The Dark Side ( The Far Side, actually ), the side which we never get to see with our naked eyes. Three full rotations in full 4K for your viewing pleasure. It looks best on a large screen 4K HDTV. Shooting Star: 1:05 Shooting Star: 6:05 Shooting Star: 11:05 Moon info: It takes 27.3 days for the Moon to travel all the way around the Earth. Distance from the Earth to the Moon is 238,900 miles. The Moon’s surface gravity is about one-sixth of Earth's at 0.1654 g. The Moon’s average orbital speed is 1.022 kilometers per second. The Moon's diameter is about 3,500 kilometers, more than a quarter of Earth's, with the face of the Moon comparable to the width of Australia. The crater that looks like a naval that is on the southern portion of the Moon of the surface that faces Earth, is called the Tycho Crater. A link to a list of the Moon’s craters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_the_Moon Music: Dronescape - by Jesus Lastra Moog Jam - by Amazezues This video was created on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Late one night, a hungry raccoon scurried his way to the water hole, and was happy to discover someone had left a good amount of pumpkin seeds lying on the tree stump. As he devoured the seeds, the trail camera caught it all. He stayed a while, allowing the trail cam to capture several clips of him eating his delicious meal. For this clip, I was able to arrange all four of these clips in Blender and add a quick tile. It made for an interesting set-up. These video clips were captured on Monday, January 16th, 2023, around 8:00 PM.

This is my first Blender project dealing with planets. Obviously I chose the Earth as my first attempt at rendering a planet. And as long as I was trying to create Earth, I might as well create the Moon as well, right? And as long as I was creating the Earth and the moon, I might as well include the Sun as well, right?! Ok, after the Sun, I drew a line. That was enough learning for this project. I don't want to get projects too complicated. Not yet, at least. Anyways, I think overall it turned out pretty good. I added in a few interesting stats that I recently learned about the velocity of the Earth as it traverses around the Sun, through our Solar System and our Milky Way. I tried to make most things as accurate as I could in the limited time I chose to work on this project. But I'm sure I got more things wrong than I got right during this learning experience. I'll try to get more accurate in future projects, this one was mainly just for fun. And for all you "Flat Earthers" out there, I might try and do a special video for you in the near future! Check out my moon Animation : https://rumble.com/v2eg60j-the-moon.html Thanks goes out the following for helpful Youtube video tutorials: 5 Minute Blender Neb Motion Tutorials CBailyFilm joepavitt3d CG Geek This tutorial was created using Blender 3.4.1 on March 11th & 12th, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one, you can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

An AnkerMake M5 3-D printer in action at Micro Center in Overland Park, Kansas.  $ 799.99, out of stock.

This was another experiment I did with the same rotating Argyle302 Animations logo, but this time I was able to incorporate 5 different camera angles during the sequence or rotations. The multiple camera angle feature is truly a game changer in Blender, allowing you to give animations various perspectives inside your animation project. So cool! The sound ended up a bit weak after exporting out of iMovie, which was the only downside in this project. This video was created on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 7th and 8th, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one, you can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

My first attempt at the “Satisfying Ball Animation” tutorial by “CG Geek”. It mostly worked out for me, but I have since moved on now trying to create my own version of this concept , but I am having troubles with the physics & lighting. So I’ll just have to stick with it and see if I can solve my issues. But until then, this is all I’ve got on this one so far. 😕 The actual rendering of this video made it come out in a beautiful 1080P visual, but uploading it to short, has really degradated. The quality doesn’t look anything like 1080P. It looks more like 360 crap from 10 years ago. 😂🤣😂

Another fun Blender animation.

I created this neon sign using the Blender application for my friend, who has his own freelance company named "Brad Hensley Creative Services". I like the blinking effect the most. If you would like for me to build you a blinking neon sign for you or your company, please leave me a request in the comments. Thanks goes out to "Ducky 3D" for his fun "Easy Neon Sign Animation" tutorial, which you can find in the link here: https://youtu.be/e_wxxtRJVMA If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one, you can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Warning: If you have weak speakers, turn down your volume. This audio might damage brittle speakers. Another Blender project I created using the particles feature and the Eevee render engine. Thanks to Ducky 3D's insightful tutorial, helping me learn a little bit more of the complex but multiple dimentional Blender application. A cylinder mesh was created, duplicated numerous times, and then a UV sphere was created and stretched into a long particle. Using the particle properties feature, the number of particles used was 900, with hair length at 3.25 meters. Then a camera was placed at the mouth of the first cylinder and set the first keyframe at 8 meters, and the last keyframe at -440 meters. I think the results turned out really cool. I diverged from Ducky 3D's tutorial a little bit, but not too much. Music ( Youtube royalty free ): Interstellar Flight If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one, you can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

I have recently discovered a new animation application, Blender, and am now in the process of trying to learn how to navigate the application. I came across a tutorial for beginners by the Blender Guru, Andrew Price. The tutorial series is called "Blender Beginner Donut Tutorial". It is a very fun and exciting educational video series that I would suggest anyone take if they are wanting to get into animation or 3D building. This video series took me about 10 days to complete and then a few days to polish up my final piece, which is this video. I also used Keynote and iMovie to complete the donut video. My render time in Blender took about 125 minutes, but I also changed it up, going with a landscape setup instead of a portrait setup, like in the tutorial. I also bumped it up to full HD, 4096 x 2160, so my render time was longer because of those two factors. I crunched all this on my new iMac, with 64GB of RAM, so that also helps. I used the Eevee render machine option instead of cycles, because I preferred the ending results more. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a like, or leave a comment or a question if you'd like to more more. And think about subscribing to my channel. I'll be coming out with more cool animations using Blender in the future.

I mounted the Wolfang GA420 action camera to the top of my Miata windshield for a drive to work this day. The Kansas City Chiefs, coming off their Superbowl win on Sunday, were scheduled to have their parade and rally today, so I figured I might get some footage of some of the traffic and the crowd of Chiefs on the drive to and from work. Unfortunately I didn't get much footage of this at all, on my drive in to work, and just a little bit of it on the drive home. It was an overcast day, with temperatures in the upper 30's to low 40's. The parade was to begin around 12:00 noon in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and then head south to end at Union Station, where the rally was to begin about 1:45 PM. My place of work is only about a half mile away from Union Station. So plenty of the traffic would be pouring down Southwest Boulevard most of the morning and afternoon. On the drive in, I again had the settings wrong on my camera, thus I didn't get any audio. I corrected this error on the drive back home though. I decided to speed up the video to 5 times normal speed. This video footage was recorded on Wednesday, February 15th, 2023. Music ( Youtube royalty free ): Firebrand by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100830 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ If you enjoy this video, please comment, like & subscribe. I'm always coming out with new content on a weekly basis, so stay tuned, and have a great day!

KC Chiefs fans walking down Southwest Boulevard heading to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Champions 2022 parade and rally today. This was on Southwest Boulevard about 27th Street, near the The Roasterie Air-Roasted coffee house. A bus also goes by packed with Chiefs fans going to the site.  This was recorded at about 9:40 AM.  The parade begins down on 6th Street & Grand around 12:00 Noon, and and ends at Union Station around 1:45 PM, which at that point the rally begins. 

I did a video of my drive in the Miata to the dentist office and back. I mounted the Wolfang GA420 action camera to my Miata's trunk lid with my magnet camera mount for a rear view angle. Little did I know that the settings were wrong on my camera, so I ended up with a washed out look, and no audio. The frustrations of operating an action camera. Ugh. So, instead of scrapping the footage I chose to make lemonade out of lemons. So here I have set all the washed out clips to "negative", which gives it all a spooky and eerie look. I kinda like this haunted look, actually. Something different! This footage was taken on Tuesday, February 14th, 2023. Music ( Youtube royalty free ): In The Void - Amulets If you enjoy this video, please comment, like & subscribe. I'm always coming out with new content on a weekly basis, so stay tuned, and have a great day!

Just kidding. I guess the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Beagles in the Super Bowl. Woke-sters in Philadelphia be bumming tonight….

Driving from Overland Park to downtown Kansas City and back, with my camera mounted on the trunk of my Miata for a rear view perspective. It was a cloudy day with cold temperatures and a little bit of rain fall. This video was recorded on Monday, December 12th, 2022. Music ( Youtube royalty free ): Light Awash - Kevin McLeod If you enjoy this video, please click the "thumbs up" button, and "comment" if you wish, and "share" as well. And you can always subscribe to my channel as well. I'm always coming out with new content on a weekly basis, so stay tuned! Have a great day!

Another Angry Birds green screen, two different clips. If you enjoyed this video, please remember to smash that like button, and leave a comment if you feel the need. And perhaps subscribe to my channel, so you won't miss any future content. Thanks for watching and have a nice day!

It was a busy day for the birds at the watering hole, although a raccoon and a squirrel also paid visits. For this video, I decided to speed things up a little bit, when the birds showed up. It's kind of cool to watch their antics in fast motion. These clips were captured by the trail camera on Sunday, December 4th, 2022. If you enjoyed this video, please remember to give it a thumbs up, or leave a comment, or maybe even subscribe to the channel. Or you could do all three! It's your choice! Have a great day!

The lineup of microphones at Micro Center.

A very curious fox gets close to the trail cam and gazes into its lens. He seems to know he's being watched. After he scurries off, the birds then descend upon the trail cam scene. Not long after, a squirrel shows up to do some goofing off for the cam. Twice he slips when on top of the bird bath, both times recovering what would be an embarrassing fall. He doesn't want that on his resume'! Then after dark, the trail is visited by a thirsty opossum, followed by a little bunny rabbit hopping around in the background. Music ( Youtube royalty free ): "Gently, Onwards" by ELPHNT If you enjoyed this video, please remember to give it a thumbs up, or leave a comment, or maybe even subscribe to the channel. Or you could do all three! It's your choice! Have a great day!