@Mike-Amos said in PFAS chemical exposure (Heads up): @L-i-am Really good to hear folk are taking ownership and doing the right thing, go Australia indeed. We think these are new problems? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/deadly-make-up-regime-queen-24550328 Cheers Mike, in about 2005 there was a toy called bindeez. Basically they were little beeds where kids would form a coloured pattern of the beads and join them together by spraying them with water and letting it dry. Anyway the Australian toy company decided to get them made in China. In that year there was emergency warning on TV and radio. Seems like the Chinese manufacturer changed the formula to make the product cheaper, hence more profit. The replacement contained "1,4 butylene glycol" that simulates the drug gamma hydroxy butyrate (GHB) (Street name "Grievous bodily harm" a drug not unlike ecstasy if swallowed. children were hospitalised. Then around the same time a Chinese company put melamine in babies formular as that would allow them to water down the milk and the melamine reads as protein, making the mandatory lab test show the milk had the correct amount of protein as per specification. I remember seeing a grandmother buying some Santa clause shaped predominantly red confectionery (clearly made iin China ,at a supermarket I vividly remember cringing

@L-i-am Man, This is enchanting. Thanks for sharing.

@majid Majid, you are a talented Architect, Artist and Author, and at the very least bilingual. It you tell me you play the violin or drive a race car I will find you and slap you Whilst in Holland I would see about getting yourself into a Cafe and perhaps partaking in some, not too strong, creative type ganja (providing you are with a trusted friend) and chill the "F" out

@rv1974 Vantage is under the hood in the new virtual production initiative to compete Unreal https://youtu.be/2k6otpfLNoM?si=KblObed7SKIUfLKY

@ntxdave Use the icon top right next to your avatar - 'Chats' - select who to talk with and you can attach files etc as in the old PM system...

@rv1974 I draw in Procreate on my iPad. The first book has sold well but not that I can live from it. Working part time and writing part time for now.

Thanks Rich, some of those terms are beyond me but I will look into it

Or this another one ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgJ4iQyfnY

@mike amos said: It looks as though rendering is going through a once a decade shift, so many ?AI? render sites/programs etc are coming on stream so the next basic toolset might just include a bluddy dictionary........ How many old stle render resources will still be here within the next two years? Twilight is gone now and others like Maxwell have glacial development lead times while the current ethos appears to be constant change. This is one of the main reason why I'm more and more specializing in very specific stuff, detailed/animated objects, custom shapes and textures, optimized models for VR/AR/realtime/web, teaching 3d for VR developers and all this kind of technical-oriented stuff. Where i live the "classic" render market is already bloated with people working fast, but at really bad quality and underwaged, possibly cracking software and avoiding taxes in most cases. So i think AI will make not a big difference for me (at least in the next few years), right now is a problem of those sloppy "collegues". I'm done with that market, their analog stupidity has already screwed that well before AI was even a thing. The only option I found to survive is doing those "hard" stuff that they can't or want not learn to do.. I hardly recall the last time I did a "classic" architectural still render

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ZGnlyrXqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GwDeHuFh-s

you've never seen this before? Me either ..

Thank you all for contributing. good points Mike and Rich, It seems that humans relationship is based on fear, instead of trust. We trust our family and friends, less trust our neighbors, and feel others as probable enemies... others do the same. It is naive to consider everyone as friends because we fear each other and hurt each other then... It starts from fear and ends in fear. What if it could start from kindness and end in kindness If it is possible to reframe a society based on trust? make all the laws and regulations based on trust? help each other to make trust? these are things wandering in my mind...

Feather Draw line / curve on a "Grid" (surface) [image: FJKXiZGh_o.jpg] Export OBJ.. it's a volume [image: HyYctlGv_o.jpg]

Thanks Rich, I will giv it a go

Looks like norton is scamming me for software hard sell for not much, fake reporting? [image: RHhs_Drivers2.jpg]

I emailed them asking how he's doing, keep your fingers crossed ..

That looks interesting Rich, I'll check it out!

Thanks guys