cumulus

Okay.

and as the cumuli part overhead you can see a dim frozen shape of a staghorn man condense above the hill a wild figure of glowing green which will require a sanity roll

yeah everyone

well everyone except for quote unquote Dr.

And that was just a choice with you and your father.

So tell me how that inspired you to start Cumulus.

Okay.

So first of all, everybody loves it.

It's like, why Cumulus? Well, cloud is a Cumulus cloud is like the most beautiful cloud.

Imagine it was billowing kind of growing clouds and, and, to us at cross culturally, that means going to heaven.

So I was like, let's call this heaven without calling it heaven.

And from an architect's perspective, I was like, how do I create this immersive, poetic, just something that did justice to the experience of those memories, the sorrow of some of it, but also the joy in a digital space.

Hey, I knew it.

All right, what white puffy clouds are known as fair weather clouds? Cumulus...

Columbia's? Walter said

this is peak off-season content.

The changing shadows give the impression that the clouds are actually rolling along, though of course no such thing is really taking place.

As time goes on, the rolls grow larger and the interspaces wider, then transverse fissures appear, and gradually the rolls break up into small detached cumulus.

Cumulus radius, from the Latin for a rolling pin, might be a suitably descriptive name, but it should not be forgotten that this is only an intermediate link between stratus and cumulus, and indeed it is more nearly related to the former, since it is never produced except on a breakup of stratus, while it may dry up and disappear without reaching the cumulus stage at all.

Stratus radius would therefore be a better name.

Cumulus is closely related to another form of stratus, which Mr.

Lay has named stratus lenticularis, but this appears to be so frequently the last stage in a disappearing cumulus that its history will come better later on.

It is mentioned here that it is, after all, one of the commonest of all forms of stratus, the form which it appears at or after sunset, and is one of the few clouds which have an English popular name, fall cloud.

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