The cut stumps in the conifer forests are scans of two real stumps, with real bark relief, a weathered top and their own root flare meeting the soil. They are 2.6 to 3.3 m across the roots and about 1 m tall, set 12 percent into the ground. Their bright wet-forest moss is dried to gray-brown wood and lichen, because Sierra summers are dry, and the foot fades into the color of the forest litter.
The fallen branches on the forest floor and the sticks around the trunks are scans of real dead branches too, forked, cracked and peeling, where there had been a smooth gray stick with one texture everywhere. A fallen log can no longer be placed through a stump or a rock, and dead wood and scanned granite boulders fade between detail levels as you walk up instead of switching in one frame.
Still wrong: the stump scan carries its own skirt of debris, so from close up it reads as a mound more than a stump. Pine cones and twig fans are still the older models.
