Hey, I had one of the 9 lost posts. I had replied and said that this was the best 3dwarehouse model ever,! Chris

@ecuadorian said: I can't believe a surname can be trademarked. Tell that to MacDonald's.

@unknownuser said: I think that image can help those with 'one direction only' find a way to switch. Why? Take a closer look at each individual frame. I can easily see all those intermediate frames between those when the position of the lady IS certain, as a lady facing me or showing her back ! Our imagination decides if we see the front or the back because the silhouette doesn't define it exactly. Tomasz We, in the western world, learn the process of reading at an early age. That process involves recognizing individual patterns. Furthermore each of us spends a lot of time associating those patterns of letters with words, that pattern recognition process just happens to start at the left and ends at the right. But not in all languages follow reading patterns from left to right. (Unfortunately after many years of education sadly today, many have not mastered that process) Even the individual pictures you placed in your picture are assumed to be read left to right just as we read text, followed by line after line. Many years ago, before computers. The Type that was produced by newspapers required a person that was a Typesetter by profession. These Typesetters had to layout each newspaper page by installing individual blocks of type, each block contained one letter, those letters were mirror images of each letter of type, and had to be placed as a mirror image of the page so that the offset press would then print the page. A Typesetter had to be able to pick individual blocks of letters which were mirrored as well as be able to place those blocks into words that he had to be able to spell and read backwards, as he or she was laying out a page for printing. Hence I don't think this has anything to do with imagination, or right versus left brain thinking.

have you seen the one called "Dead Eye" dat was just DAMN

Welcome to the forum Bill, it's me Scoob aka Danny over in this wonderful forum. Since I have joined the contest I would also like to invite the gang here at SkerchUcation forum to check it out and if you guys would like to join you are all welcome. See you their and lets get Sketchuping....does that make any sense?!?!? Danny

Many manufacturers don't get it, but some do. This type of work is less risky than arcvis or drawing products that don't exist yet. The objective is clearer and as a contractor you can quote the cost of the job much more accurately.

Oh, yeah, now that I remember, movies have a refresh rate of 24fps, which is not enough to fully trick your brain into believing what you see is reality, but instead it creates a dreamy atmosphere... I guess I have to stop rendering my videos at 30fps...

I prefer Douglas Adams' take on it. From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: @unknownuser said: “This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.” Cheers.

Just to bring the ongoing saga up to date. I made six more of the hexagonal hubs out of plywood. (As an aside, let me state that it is a lot easier to build things in the virtual world of SketchUp than the real world of saws, drills and wood... and I have the bandaids to prove it.) The jig I built to assist with creating the hubs helped but I'm not able to cut the hexagons to the tolerances really needed to make the jig work well. Anyway, I put everything together yesterday, glued it up and tightened up the bolts. I am quite pleased with the results. I now have a prototype of a structurally solid wooden TIN. I can stand (all 200+ pounds of me) on the center hub and the TIN barely flexes. Next step is to cut triangles for the faces out of 1/2" plywood. [image: vJ9q_IMG_5300.jpg] [image: Vb22_IMG_5298.jpg] [image: Uttk_IMG_5296.jpg]

They're just trying to follow Macs infamous business model of overcharging their faithful customers.

Good fun

Hm. Interesting. I got this doing it without break or anything (note that I'm practically half blind as I have a 90 something % cataract on my right eye and something "unidentified" refracting in my left). [image: 8r5z_ScreenShot005.png] Interestingly, there are mistakes definitely separable in all 4 regions Also I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean: [image: dzB7_ScreenShot006.png] (especially the "highest" score saying 1485 while only 99 on the right of the scale )

I love FFD, Bezier Curved Edges, FreeScale etc etc. Beaucoup Fun!

There is no IQ test for Criminals. We have Nimrods who write demand letters on the backs of their own business cards, checks or phone in bomb threats on their Caller ID phones! What is really interesting is that if you total up the average haul from a bank job and divide that by the number of hours that person spends in prison for the crime, he ends up making about 35 cents and hour. I think I read that somewhere. Morons.

Oh yes, very real. It's at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, no less. The original story can be found here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7718587.stm Talk about fight the good fight.

@thomthom said: @alan fraser said: Tower Bridge is very well done; I guessed it was CG only because The Tower of London isn’t floodlit in the background. To me, it was the repeating texture of the bridge foundation where it meets the water that immediately stood out. Me, it was the fact that a lot of the beams from the lights were completely out-of place, and very similar, and the bridge even seemed out of place from the background.

the notes after the end: The characters and incidents portrayed and the names in this movie are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person or company is entirely coincidental and unintentional and please do not sue us for we are nothing more than starving artists with no money. This film is a work of pure fiction and has no correspondence to historical facts or the buddhist religion.

I'm so embarrassed... I seem to have a hand for making threads go completely off-topic!

I can personally verify the attached as I took the photo of a menu outside a restaurant in Kobe a few months ago. I quite admired their logic, they obviously realised they were unable to translate it correctly, so if in doubt why be specific? [image: niFh_DeepFriedThing.jpg] Japanese bar names are a treasure trove of absolutely bizarre English- pretty much every single building entrance in any Japanese downtown area is plastered with dozens of signs for a plethora of tiny bars hidden away on upper floors. Almost without exception the bars have English names even though non-Japanese are often unwelcome and as even a small city has probably tens of thousands of these miniscule drinking dens they have to be very imaginative to come up with anything original.... very imaginative indeed. http://gaijintonic.com/2007/05/21/bizarre-bar-names/

Definitely cool (however it's been here already)