Will see

@gaieus said: Hehe. You got me. I should go back to school. Does IRender do displacement mapping? I did not know that, great! Yes - but we haven't found a great use for it yet. We worked on a ruby to create bump maps and displacement maps from SketchUp models. Basically you render the scene - say a wall with 3D depth - or a window treatment - of rocks - with a camera point straight on - in OpenGL - but save a greyscale image using the Z-depth for the intensity, and then use it as a bump map or displacement map. (This could be done purely in Ruby as well by getting the Z-distance at each pixel and creating an image using the Z-distances for greyscale intensity) It was hard to find a good example for it. e.g. Background windows which would have many fewer faces in SketchUp - but still render will from different angles because of the mapping. Here is a sample from of the image from the procedure - which we wrote for experimentation but never put into a product. [image: Rock-bump-images.jpg] The problem was creating a SketchUp model good enough to use for the bump maps. A brick wall would be easy - but it also easy to create a decent bump map for brick using Paint. So you need a more complex sculptured surface - or rocks. When we asked at the time no one could supply a good model of rocks which would be useful for creating a bump map or displacement map image.

That is definitely amazing, also the large size makes it easy in some parts and harder in some cases. BTW one of my close friend IMO is one of the best pencil and oil color painters i've ever seen, while completely anonymous,you may see some "Hossein" paintings here: [image: hossein-hadipour-04.jpg] and more oil paintings here also: http://www.apadanagallery.com/artist/hossein-hadipour/ I've seen unbelievable portraits that he have drown ...

On Google maps you can edit the live maps that are seen by everyone throughout the world and it lets you add info about if its a bike path, ped path, no sidewalk, dirt road, locked gate, etc. So maybe an app like this would get runners to slowly start inputting data about the areas around them, improving the maps accuracy for everyone. It does sound like a great idea. You can almost come close by doing the get directions, and put in your house address and the house address of your neighbor. Then click on the path and drag the pin to anywhere that you want to walk past. It will you give a route to your neighbors house via wherever you put the pin. And it tells you how far it was. And if you click on the "walking" tab it will even include walking paths if your town has any (we have a very large network of walking/biking paths here in Davis) and Maps did a pretty good job using them.

Thanks Roger. I'll look for it. Surprised PBS didn't fix it up before broadcast. As a documentary there must be ample places to provide English voice-over anyway.

as you may know , nowadays, Iran government is almost banned in different field , so private jobs and offices are trying to develope themselves, preventing to die. (i.e. I saw this few days ago: http://www.umef-university.ch/?lang=fr , that has an sister office here in Iran-Tehran :http://www.mahanbs.com/en/) So I thought that maybe some of you , are university lecturer,managers, etc ... and interested in having co-job with our private academy!... is there anyone here? anyone interested?

If you want to leave legacy photos for your offspring, could I urge you leave hard copy versions. A recent project I have been involved in has shown how rapidly things can change. Making use of the 100 year old photographs was easy. Trying to retieve 20 and 30 year old text and graphics files was a nightmare. Finding working drives for old format discs then trying to convert what were once relatively mainstream file formats took hours of work and proved simply impossible in a couple of cases . I spent three weeks trying to find someone with a working zip drive only to find that the disc I had was corrupted.

kmead, thanks for this.

Another aspect to this is that an Architect will communicate in a variety of styles and the casual styles reflect the conceptual nature of the presentation and seem to imply that they should not be taken to literally. Conversely as the design development continues everything becomes more precise and a more disaplined drawing technic is usually employed. I think this is one of the reasons I love sketchup and layout because I can change the style effortlessly. I have seen clients become nervous when presented with a concept in a hard line format. One more thing, good sheet composition and organization of information is always high on my list.

Happy bday. See you in a couple days!

Thanks Trogluddite for those observations ! Nice idea to build something from premodeled parts ! Concerning 3D warehouse...I'll definitly not rely on it, too messy for me and most of time bad models...Concerning practical things, I'm aware of SU requisities and I'll not propose any training sessions if PCs are not good for SU. Anyway, thanks again for your thoughts, they're very usefull !!

@richard said: BTW mate, it's funny that they ask immigrants to Australia if they have any criminal record, I'm not sure if that means it's still a requirement? Bit like last time I entered the US; I was asked "got any guns on you?" "No" I replied, since I rarely use small weapons. "Want some?" they asked.

@unknownuser said: Some schools have created student energy patrols to monitor and inform others when energy is wasted.” I suspect you may be misinterpreting the wording of this statement. To monitor and inform, means notice that too many lights are on in a room and inform those in the room that it would be a good idea to use less lights and not to forget to turn the lights off when they leave the room. You are reading Inform as run of and tell tales when it means educate or explain or make aware off etc Personally I think it is a great idea to Inform children as soon as they are able to understand. Informing them about healthy eating and exercise would be a good idea too.

@unknownuser said: Grecian 2000 Watchout Mr global moderator, You're violating the rules of this forum. Joking of course

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@rich o brien said: @unknownuser said: [attachment=0:2v5934dq]<!-- ia0 -->icono.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2v5934dq] These 3 one are nor readable : we must think and move the mouse on them for know what they do ! And in general too agressive! And pudgy plump! The Bluegrey one for Edit, Delete, Report... and under avatars are so chic! Give me time Pilou. I have other surprises in the oven More surprises in the oven, Rich come on, you can't just say that and keep us guessing

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Nice video and concept. I guess.....Sketchup+Lumion... Maybe. Regards

Thanks Dan

@roger said: How many of us are looking at our mates and saying "really?" ...or just looking in the mirror in the morning in my case!