@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 Nowadays, the 'stacking' stuff somewhat looks outdated and supra-modernistic to me.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..

It's pretty zippy, but the textures take an age to load. MS Virtual Earth is starting to look pretty cool. It's got much better 3D trees and.....flyovers. http://ve3d.spaces.live.com/blog/ And Everyscape has it's own pretty neat version of Street View. Here's one for you, Lewis. http://www.everyscape.com/boston-ma.us.aspx

@johnsenior1973 said: So what exactly did you mean when you said, "Harsh as it may sound, I reserve my appreciation for those, be it architects, artists, composers or writers, who succeed. If I wouldn't, what would my appreciation be worth?" To me that seems to be very clear that you are making out that your appreciation is worth something. Oh, but it is worth something. But I wasn't talking about absolute value. I was referring to the relative value of my appreciation as opposed to my derision. Hope this makes sense. @johnsenior1973 said: But as you reserve your appreciation for those who succeed, surely if Mr. Bon Jovi gets all the success he desires you will then appreciate him? I was referring to artistic merit, not worldly succes (though there's nothing wrong with the latter). Thought that one was clear. @ Kwist: you are gonna need some aspirin in the morning.

Oh, and I should add, that everyone that I know that works there, or has worked there are the nicest and most humble people I know. Hands down. It makes me proud to know them. In contrast to that, I know plenty of people at other similar places (CG shops) and I can't say they same for them (on average).

That was funny.

I used Squirlz Morph too for what I needed it and it worked great, so thanks guys.

I've heard a "saying" a long time ago that went something like this: "However good you become there will always be a twelve year old chinese that will be a lot better." We will just need to realise that some people have a incredible talent that make the rest of us look like newbies.

@ely862me said: so far i hate one program because i want to know it but i couldn t do anything in it it s the 3ds max I've use it professionally for an award-winning render house, own my own license, and I still hate it. And I hate Autodesk's damned extortion ("subscription") scheme. I'll take Blender any day for rendering/animation, and Rhino and SketchUp for modeling.

Google Maps API? http://code.google.com/apis/maps/