Correction, the original artist responsible for this concept was Yves Lappert

Cheers Rich, I think I will take my computer in for a reinstall tomorrow. Something is very wrong and unpredictable, must be a fundamental problem. Just for instance everything I have ever unzipped is now zipped.

Although the era of watercolor presentation is almost over but may some of you be interested in watercolor and art. I thought it would be nice if I share 3 coupons for free access to my class on tree painting that is already up and running on Skillshare: https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/majid?gr_tch_ref=on&gr_trp=on So please PM me if interested. They are valid till May 17th (my birthday).

Many things were supposed to go the way of the Dodo, like traveling to an office to work. Paper book sales have been declared dying for several decades now and the sales of paper books goes up. Having a computer 'entity' designing and refining is OK but a human mind will still be able to pull off stunning and unique designs that make others say 'wow'. I hope this remains. I loved the pads and communicators from Star Trek but a paper book is where it remains for me. Shocked myself realising that.

@newnoob said: Most people who are interested in small living spaces do so because they simply cannot afford bigger ones. Without addressing the root causes (supply, migration, income) that drive the need for very small housing, nothing will change. However, since large population groups cannot change the conditions due to which they can't afford larger housing, the only thing they can do is by coping with these conditions as good as possible - above all, this means "smart furniture", using multifunctional room concepts. Good observations Alex. I'll be selling my house soon as I am finding it just too big for my current needs. It was a great family home while I had my wife, Pauline and my two daughters, Clara and Shelly keeping things organised. Now that my daughters have their own families and houses and Pauline has taken up residence in heaven, its just Misty (my little Westie) and me. I will shortly be converting an office I own into a two bedroom apartment. Designing the conversion focused me on what I really needed. The main thing was the kitchen! A man's idea of what a kitchen should be and a woman's idea of the kitchen are very different! I have also looked at 'smart furniture' and multifunctional rooms. Bedrooms in particular leave a lot to be desired. We really only use them for 8 hours a day and for those eight hours we are sleeping. I think there is scope to utilise space better in this area.

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Thanks MIke!

Oh, Ok, looking at the background of your image it isn't in what would normally be referred to as an electronics clean room. Computers are dust magnets and dusk is one enemy of electronics. Your pc case has open slots and significant evidence of dust inhalation. I'd be putting it in an enclosure myself.

@rich o brien said: What is it you want the extra power for? Rendering? How would you cool it? Will your PSU be capable of running dual GPUs? I would favour a single 3000 series over dual 1080s. RTX and Ampere architecture is fast compared to Turing. I moved from 970 series and 2070 series 2 years ago and the difference was massive in terms of rendering speeds. The newer 3000 series cards are beasts compared to 2000 series cards. Userbenchmarks has the 3060 TI as the best ROI https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/ I'm no GPU nerd though. But dual 1080s for me would mean more headaches in terms of power consumption and heat management. Thanks Rich, and all good points. Botom line is I would want to render with twinmotion to get a bit of a buffer. But just found out that Twinmotion would not support rwin GPU's anyway. So I will hold out until the technology matures and crypto minning is less profitable if it ever does

Hi mate, Thanks for your kind words. The book's focus is architectural sketching from a plan (or imagination in broader scope). So it is not intended to learn the audience to sketch from reality. By the way, there are some perspective rules that are valid in both sketching from the reality or mind. i.e. when it comes to dividing a line that heads away from the viewer the rules that I have shared here are the same in perspective drawing from the real world or mind... Will try to share the table of contents.

Converting an internal hdd to an external hdd gives you an extra drive. Useful.

I think I know what you mean there. Nothing funny in anything like that and I cannot see how anyone would. I would go so far as to say anyone who finds humour there might just be something to worry about. Dodgy ground tho' and smacks of arrogance which is is dangerous too. All I can really say from experience and work wise in particular, is the trauma and damage these events cause to those who are involved and through observation. We all have our demons, perhaps those who find laughter in these things are dealing with theirs in another manner. Just glad I am not involved in that.

That looks interesting. I have a few things to get further with but I reckon I'll have a go. Thanks for posting this, it will grease the cogs for a while.

@drafter said: @shawb said: Simple answer - trust nobody! We have to get our collective heads out of our collective arses and start thinking for ourselves. Does anybody have the guts to say "I trust God"? It has nothing to do with guts, People that just leave issues in an imaginary deity's hands to handle are not only stupid but also reckless.

@l i am said: @ntxdave said: How about designing a modernized workshop for Santa and his team. Ho Ho Ho! ….a room of 3d printers and robotics with very geeky very clever high tech Elves soldering, programming etc. Perhaps the presents are now, in this age, delivered by a space time delivery…. Think you are right on. That send visions dancing through you head!

Nice to know Rich, cheers

Thank jga, very much appreciated

Sweet dreams. Peace, Love...

Ominitiles and Sketchup workflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU3--phuaT4

Another one to end. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25527432