@kwistenbiebel said: Pietzak! (=Vlaams voor geluksvogel). Ik moet het zelf nog kopen maar de zilverlingen zijn schaars efkes....Nog even wachten voor mij. Ik heb wel de SR versie (demo-) momentel lopen. Ik ben al een jaar van plan Vray te kopen maar ik wachtte steeds op een bugvrije versie. Ik zal er toch aan moeten geloven want de hoop op insectenvrije Vray is tevergeefs I'm afraid Maak je geen illusies: mijn fondsen zijn nu ook uitgeput. Ik heb de laatste maanden érg veel poen (ik gok: ruim drieduizend ballen ...) aan software, hardware, textures en 3D-modelletjes besteed. Nu, wat ik kocht, wilde ik ook al een jaar - ik heb ervoor gespaard. Wat kan je anders, als werkmensch? Ja, je kan het allemaal (afgezien van de hardware) illegaal van het net plukken. En dat deed ik vroeger ook. Maar die tijden zijn voorbij. Zelfs een mp3'tje jatten lijkt me moreel niet meer kunnen. Ik word volwassen, geloof ik. Overigens ben ik er - godzijdank - vrij behoorlijk in geslaagd om mijn voormalige werkgever nogal wat dingen (waaronder mijn Mac Pro) af te zetten. Als het moet, kan ik behoorlijk hulpbehoevend kijken. Jij bent zelfstandige, niet? Voorlopig ben ik, geloof ik, wel even klaar met kopen. Ja, Podium V2 schaf ik me nog aan, als ik niet van ouderdom sterf voor het uitgebracht wordt, tenminste. Je zou weleens gelijk kunnen hebben over een bugvrije versie van Vray.

@unknownuser said: Thanks for the info Lewis. It is short notice for me to enter this at the moment but I will watch out for the next brief being released. I feel much the same way. Unfortunately, I think this is probably the most interesting of the three briefs. At one point in time I had the email of the fellow who started this Line of Site business (an executive in a company that makes roofing components, I seem to recall), and he was pretty clear in our conversations that he was trying to provoke flash-of-genius "napkin sketches" as opposed to deliberated responses.

Todd Your presentation was one of my favorites. Your sense of humor is an asset for a presentation. Too bad you could not have passed out Stromboli to the audience but then no one would have wanted to leave. I'll upload more of my photos from 3dbc soon.

no, i think it would still count that as orbiting. maybe tap onve to bring up prev/next controls, no editing menus. 253

Looks like there was fun at the Grand hotel also. The Avante crowd was a bit quieter.

The blue moon one is pretty cool, they must drink like fish to keep up a collection like that.

@remus said: This is good for a laugh: http://www.slate.com/id/2193482/?from=rss I cant help bu think that some of the people/organizations are taking the whole thing a little too seriously. Hi Remus, Yeah, HaHaHa is probably the right response. On the other hand, as an American living in the UK for the last twenty odd years, I find this kind of thing more than a little embarassing. If the regualrs in my local read this crap ("...liberal worldwide view" -- What's that when it's at home?)i'd never hear the end of it. Anyway, thanks for bringing this up. Best, Tom

You're right, David... Marilyn died August 5th, 1962 and JFK was killed by an assassin on November 22nd, 1963... But without having looked into any of the other coincidences (I'm sure other parts need a check) the list is funny enough...

@ehaflett said: BS

Although I missed the Tuesday meeting, I have had a good time talking to some of you forum regulars. As for 3d Basecamp, no breaking news yet about SU7.There is a very positive energy flow about the event, mainly about getting together and talk about SU, almost to the point that some of the presentations seem to have taken a backstage. The SU team has been very accomodating and gracious hosts. The Googleplex is huge and seems like a good place to work, filled with perks (food, massage chairs, food, toilets that whash and dry you, more food, snacks) Khintanar

Many Thanks Remus, there are some very good images.... nevermind the bad place! Cheers

CHeers for the tip jon, worked like a charm.

Ha, great! Look up redundancy in the dictionary and it says: "See redundancy."

I'm stunned no one has mentioned the Godfather; ALL of them. Now that's the best trilogy of all time. For a horror flick, see the remake of The Thing with Kurt Russel. Edit: I see Alan did mention the Godfather I and II.

just came across this site, looks like primarily a collection of images and renderings gallery: http://construction.com/community/gallerylist.aspx renderings: http://construction.com/community/publicgallery.aspx?plckGalleryID=cbcb58bc-3786-4447-8a99-d9fee9c33ebf

Hi Mary, very interesting links and downloads in your web_page. as for the invitation i dont go to BaseCamp. have good luck.

I liked the projects coming from MVRDV a lot when I studied architecture in the nineties. Nowadays, the 'stacking' stuff somewhat looks outdated and supra-modernistic to me. In that era it was 'bon-ton' to either 'fold' things (mostly floorslabs) or to 'stack' things onto eachother. Looking back, it was just esthetic formplay. Thank God architecture evolves over time...

Disney World has gone 3D http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/special/flashPages/index?id=GoogleEarthPage&CMP=OTC-3dparksVanity

@jim said: @igor said: i think he wants us to try to make it inter face w/ SU. i dont think it'll work. unless the wiimote can sense depth of field, it wont work If you watch the head tracking video, it's pretty amazing. He uses a pair of glasses fitted with 2 leds, and the wiimote can pick up the depth of field. There's nothing special about the glasses besides having 2 lights on it. The computer is manipulating the image on the screen based on the feedback from the wiimote. This could potentially be done for any computer application. Yeah - I kind of assumed everybody had watched that one! But it's not even really the technology involved, it's the thinking that intrigues me. I mean the guy is working out of his lounge and he managed to obviously surprise a few in the gaming industry.

I can imagine it is a trip. I think I would need prozac instead of codeine to watch a complete Lars von Trier series. He's a great director, but kind of confronting to watch..