Haiku
Jedi Master
Yes Joe, this is definitely a problem, and thank you for bringing this up. Faked Crop Circles are abundant in newer CC’s. The only real way to determine this is to have close up pictures of crop laydown. Then you could see the effects of the bending over or breakage. I look at what I can for imagery on CC’s and I do my best to identify them accordingly. My conclusion is that there were less forgeries in these earlier years. Not to state that I have not modeled a forgery, I probably have. And I will probably do some in the future. Even the C’s stated that these forgeries were possibly driven by outside forces, STS most likely, and might be helpful. Moreover, I have had a couple of CC’s that were hokey or janky (good description there) and I did not value them enough to model and review. One of note had faceted edges of a centre that was obvious to me that it was formed by a plywood sheet, looked like a 20 sided polygon.
Of note: I look for living or dead crop laydown first. Then if there are close-up images of the crop and determine breakage or bent stalks. Next is crop laydown, like a weave or patterning which so far is not done by 3D STS individuals (I am sure that they are thinking about how to fake these features during this period). I have to use intuition most of the time and this can lead me to modeling STS CC’s.
I have already made the ruling to not do anything that resembles a product logo or a character image (like the one’s with the Orion STS alien depictions).
Technically speaking, my model interpretations and reviews are not even close to being 100% accurate, I never expected them to be. I would state that my modeling is maybe 15-50% accurate and my reviews are just thoughts of a wandering mind and I would only rate them with a 10-25% accuracy, they are just my interpretations from a mechanical standpoint with life lessons added. This means that the work that I do for CC’s is mostly non-informational, but better than the idiots that make fake crop circles. I do plan to continue my efforts even with these personally defined ratings.
Mis-information is something that I looked at when I started this endeavor. Like the fake crop circles, I understood that all of what I create must be taken with a grain of salt. And that I would be assisting others to have some realization of what CC’s are and that I would also be part of the issue of this Mis-information. I am an Engineer for goodness sake, I do not like spreading mis-information, I usually have solid information to work with. So, it is my endeavor to spread as little of this mis-information as possible. And I cannot wait until 4D so I can review my 3D work and pick holes in it, with all of you. Thanks again Joe, Haiku …
Of note: I look for living or dead crop laydown first. Then if there are close-up images of the crop and determine breakage or bent stalks. Next is crop laydown, like a weave or patterning which so far is not done by 3D STS individuals (I am sure that they are thinking about how to fake these features during this period). I have to use intuition most of the time and this can lead me to modeling STS CC’s.
I have already made the ruling to not do anything that resembles a product logo or a character image (like the one’s with the Orion STS alien depictions).
Technically speaking, my model interpretations and reviews are not even close to being 100% accurate, I never expected them to be. I would state that my modeling is maybe 15-50% accurate and my reviews are just thoughts of a wandering mind and I would only rate them with a 10-25% accuracy, they are just my interpretations from a mechanical standpoint with life lessons added. This means that the work that I do for CC’s is mostly non-informational, but better than the idiots that make fake crop circles. I do plan to continue my efforts even with these personally defined ratings.
Mis-information is something that I looked at when I started this endeavor. Like the fake crop circles, I understood that all of what I create must be taken with a grain of salt. And that I would be assisting others to have some realization of what CC’s are and that I would also be part of the issue of this Mis-information. I am an Engineer for goodness sake, I do not like spreading mis-information, I usually have solid information to work with. So, it is my endeavor to spread as little of this mis-information as possible. And I cannot wait until 4D so I can review my 3D work and pick holes in it, with all of you. Thanks again Joe, Haiku …