To be clear, by first movie I meant Batman Begins. But please dont take it to the extreme that guy did, he has so much batman stuff it is unbelievable. If you are anything like a sane person you wont be able to deal with the junk!

pretty cool, thanks

I've looked at Modo in the past but found it a bit daunting after using Sketchup and didn't have the time to look at it any more detail. I might test the new version again when they get round to making a free demo available, as the renders look great. I have to say though that the projects in the link could all be done very easily in Sketchup, there was no organic modelling involved. Personally speaking I can hardly think of a single project where I needed to do 'organic' modelling. It's talked about a lot as a shortcoming of Sketchup, but for those involved in architecture/urban design, organic modelling is rarely required unless you're Frank Gehry! Having said that there is a modeller called MOI which is meant to be easy to use for curvy stuff which might be worth a trial: http://moi3d.com/index.htm Kenny

On this side of the world 2 years ago was the first snowfall in almost 40 years (and i was out), so i don't think i will see snow this year, but on the plus side last month was almost still summer.

That makes sense though. One teacher I had was an English major, but he often would bring interesting things to me to read during my lunch hour, or have some story to tell me about some thing or another. One time he explained to me alot of stuff about how the human brain reacts in isolated situations. The example that he used was the Tom Hanks movie, Cast Away. If left alone long enough, without sufficient stimuli, the human brain will attempt to create its own things to interact with. A form of torture is sensory deprivation for a reason; after a while the victim will begin to see, hear, or feel things that arent there. Although I do have to admit that I don't want to be on that plane when the pilot suddenly thinks he is no longer in control of the plane.

A perfect example of the best ideas being the simplest- what a cool product! I don't know how you would go about manufacturing it, but imagine if you could jumble around the optic fibres so they weren't running laterally or parallel- you would get a jumbled up "shadow" of whatever (or whoever) was on the other side, with little or no recognisable features. Plato's slaves would have their work cut out interpreting those shadows!

Test successful. Your Focus just winked at me

OOps I had the day and month switched in my profile. My Bday is really feb 12th. But unfortuanately the year was correct I'm getting older, At least I can say I'm in my early forties...and 50 is still more than 5 years away. I will however always be a little kid at heart, which is one reason I think I like Sketchup so much it lets the inner child in me have fun.

Sorry Al, not getting notifications! Oh, I've got your 3D.PDFs scattered all over my site! I'd appreciate any links from your site. here are a few .. Dojo PDFs on this page http://woodsshop.com/Dojo/Dojo_Plans.htm Japanese Gate http://woodsshop.com/Japanese_gate_plans.htm Moon Gate http://woodsshop.com/MoonGate/MoonGate_Kit/Moon_Gate_Kit.htm http://woodsshop.com/MoonGate/MoonGate_Kit/documents/Moon_Gate_KIT.pdf

Thank you for the recipe Eric, I have never cooked a Turkey before, (thanksgiving is not a Kiwi custom,) but now I can give it a shot. It sounds an ideal way to cook a good feed and clean the oven at the same time. Much more humane than cooking pregnant Turkeys I'm sure. I may try it for my Xmas dinner. Cheers, Bill

Happy happy happy!

IRender is at: http://forums.renderplus.com/wiki/index.php?title=IRender You can download a trial version from: http://www.renderplus.com/pdf/download.htm Let us know if you have any problems or need any helo.. IRender Plus currently works with .RPC files, but not with the new ArchVision "All Access" mode.

Everybody in the UK has heard of this place in Wales, but others might find this interesting.When I was about 10yrs old I tried to remember and learn how to say this place name, then I got interested in girls and tried to be less of a nerd. http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ Also I found this site about long words. I am actually still a nerd. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1534419

Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great one!

if you bear with us a little longer things will be much better. right now it is difficult to identify the really recent posts but once the transfer is complete everything will be back to normal.

Thanks Mark. The recognition is appreciated

Cool. The eye blinking kind of freaked me out at first. Other than being fun and cool, what kind of applications could you use it for?

Thanks so much Bob. But it would appear that the drive is black and uncompressed so thtat doesn't seem to be the reason. Anssi, I think you are on to something. I created another user and signed on with that and when I selected a bunch of files and right clicked there was a marked difference in the hesitation time for the context menu to show up. Now I don't really want to use the new user ID because I would have to set up all the program icons all over the palce all over again. But now the question is, what is it in my user profile that is causing the slow down?

Nice work Edson.

ross, your post shows why this is a special place, a place where people care enough for the others (mostly strangers) as to go through the effort of trying to make everyone feel confortable, lurker or not. regards.