The queen is hot, so get it on...

JuanV.Soler · 11 Sept 2009, 11:46

you get me wrong, Durant
wont make any more gifts for you
slam¡

Durant Hapke · 11 Sept 2009, 16:10

J to the V. Soler,

Bring the gifts, brother, you are a creative muse.

The words above are meant to affirm your excellent slam dancing creative... They are Jack bird positive in nature.

So, be the man and "bring it."

Evolution, baby, that's all there is -- I learn as I experience.

No worries about floating fishes...

Durant "bubble" Hapke

JuanV.Soler · 11 Sept 2009, 16:59

man is the dream of the dolphin.
you´ll never get me Durant

e
it:
took the drawings off to avoid distraction

Durant Hapke · 15 Sept 2009, 22:00

Brothers and Sisters,

Bring it.

I've been pouring and smoking a health bit the last few Jack bird days, trying to get my head around all this strange cable television action.

It seems the human story is just often limited... I know there is a lot of richness out there, but it seems so few think about getting it on with that action...

I have been thinking and saying "challenge convention" a Jack bird lot for a lot of long time.

However, I can't say what that means... It's a very personal kind of a deal...

Bring that.

So, yeah, there is this on meat puppet that's trying to "abandon ship" as it were, and he's been hanging around by this culvert that runs under the road down by this creek that ain't that far from the Cat and the Fiddle. I head down there from time to time to clear my head and pull a smoke.

Anyway, I traded this "big noggin" an old VHS tape of New Wave Hookers for some plans of a little antigravity device...

Don't have all the materials to construct it -- but have -- as you all know -- I have been constructing a model of it.

Here then is a bit of an operating test.

Durant "the fish can fly" Hapke

Durant Hapke · 23 Sept 2009, 03:35

Brothers and Sisters,

Bring it.

Working on all kinds of Jack bird color action.

Yeah, that's what it's all about -- this robot takes crap from no one -- his are the colors of machine matting.

Reality (God) = 00, & 00 = 2.

I'm growing... A new robot genital.

This is a much longer story, but it starts with this construction.

This is the eel killer, and late night black oil drinker.

Durant "I am scared" Hapke

JuanV.Soler · 29 Sept 2009, 08:14

Hi Durant,
i made this for you
its called the door opens.

edit : meantime done
cheers

Durant Hapke · 3 Oct 2009, 15:19

Brothers and Sisters,

So, yeah, I posted this action over at the HyperShot dance floor, but am feeling filled with anti-complacency, so am reposting here for the slam dance original SU gangsters.

Bring it, and be it.

I'm all the mad future action today.

What my action will look like in the days and weeks ahead.

Am I living it now, or just waiting?

Bring that.

Waiting is, this is my Jack bird thought, a good bit of a sin against ones self -- and I don't really understand the religious meaning of sin, but the concept of it in this regard seems to fit.

Why wait to let all that richness bubble up?

I'm thinking it's in each of us, but we let it go stale, and then it gets all thick and black, and tasteless.

Take this green test body... It's built to take your happiness away. Not by force, but just because you let it into you.

You get board, and that Jack bird feeling shifts, and spreads, and, BANG, your passion just trickles out... like blood.

And that's what others want from you, to see your inner god of sex creative just dissolve way so you will be like them.

Bring that action.

If you would, take a look at the kind of knee deal on the right hand side of this monstrosity -- the portion of leg that ends with a kind of lollypop looking bit of mechanical -- just up and left from the end of the left end of the stroke that runs through the 02.

I build my Jack action in Sketch Up and if you look at that lolly, you will see this kind of weird artifact in the geometry.

Kind of looks like a seam running from the center out... I see this all the time on curved surfaces and I don't like it.

What gives with that?

I don't get the entire tessellation deal, I hate that action as well, but I don't know what to make of this kind of weird artifact.

I see it all over and can only assume it come from something to do with sketch up.

Perhaps I can go smoke a few camels, come back and post a better example.

I hate very few things, but do hate this artifact.

The hated artifact.

It's like an old gland.

Any Jack bird thoughts on a solution would be a rock star bit of slamming.

Durant "don't let the dream killer unzip you" Hapke

baz · 4 Oct 2009, 11:31

dh,
could it be this extra bit of geometry from a 'follow me' or similiar, showing thru?
baz

remus · 4 Oct 2009, 12:08

Thats it, if you have a face intersecting a smooth face like that you will always get a visual artefact like you are seeing.

edit: sorry, i though this was a separate post asking a question for some reason, just ignore what i said.

mitcorb · 4 Oct 2009, 14:42

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=21948
The above link may be the solution to this artifact problem.

Fletch · 5 Oct 2009, 22:54

@durant hapke said:

I don't get the entire tessellation deal, I hate that action as well,

not sure if this is what you're talking about, but... I figure you know, but maybe just to check:
when you click the circle or arc tool in SU before starting to draw the arc or circle type 48 and hit enter for circles, it's default is 12 segments. 48 will give much smoother circles for renderings. Arcs look better at 24 than default 12... even better at 36. Don't go too crazy typing in all higher numbers in there because it will seriously add to the size of the model.

I think this can be changed to become the default behavior somewhere in SU's preferences.

Durant Hapke · 7 Oct 2009, 20:37

Big Bag of Baz,

Right on, I've looked into this Jackness -- largely not the case... Very unnerving.

Remus -- Oh, Jack bird interesting.

Mitcorb, I've been fearful of ruby scripts and use none.... I Jack bird fear them.

Should I go there?

Fletch to the Sky Scraper -- bring the multi action.

I will do this kind of high number arc action in the future.

What about all this?

I am seeing this kind of deal on all my Jack action models now. With many users slam dancing all manner of modeling SletchUp over on planet HyperShot, I'm guessing I can't be the only one to encounter such Jack bird weirdness?

Knowledge?

Where is the Prince Dragon of Bangkok?

Durant "wings of wonder" Hapke

dale · 7 Oct 2009, 21:28

Could you build a disrespectful and problem gland remover? I have at least 2 of each.

Ross_K · 7 Oct 2009, 22:05

you don't use rubys???? that's Jack-bird crazy, Durant! i seriously cannot imagine how you modeled all that... was it done in Sketchup?

love all the Jack-action in this thread by the way... very inspiring

bring it, Durant "fire-starter" Hapke, BRING IT!:)))

mitcorb · 7 Oct 2009, 23:40

Should you go there? Well, it ain't the dark side. I would choose carefully from the selection available, and there are many. On the other hand, one could see it as a form of corruption of principles.
I really appreciate your style, and respect your sense of creativity that spills over between the verbal and visual. What you say is as important as what you model and present on this forum. I hope that I can advance as far as you have.
Best wishes,
mitcorb

baz · 8 Oct 2009, 10:08

dh, what mitcorb said, +1.
Re Rubies, scary, maybe, there are so many, and it can be hard differentiating between versions and working out which can be be useful to ones workflow, but dark, absolutely not.
Its too late in the evening for me now, but let me put a selection of rubies together for you tomorrow which will, I promise, free your sketchupmind and literally save hours of tedium better spent realising the goal.
baz.
(sometimes known as 'Big Bad Baz', you physic or what?)

ps: the seam(ing) problem: how about you post a simple example in su which you have proven in your renderer to be disrespectful, I bet you someone here will work it out.

olishea · 8 Oct 2009, 10:15

haha thats an image in itself. naughty sketchup.

Durant Hapke · 8 Oct 2009, 17:40

Brothers and Sisters,

Bring a cold pair to each as I have expanded.

However, not to the end of this rabbit hole (speaking of, drop some ice and channel Hugh Hefner -- he is now again -- check Taschen).

This is for launching into the cosmos.

B3,

Bring that, if you have a list of Ruby extraordinary, I will ponder Jack action with punch.

Durant "I am goo grow" Hapke

baz · 9 Oct 2009, 03:53

DH. As promised here is a selection of some of the rubies I use most often, there are many, many more. I've lashed up a few quick examples, very basic, but you will get the idea.
Most are very generously donated by the ruby wizards, others are for purchase for very little from Smustard, amongst others. (Those below are all free)
Some come with documentation, others are obvious, and yes it's easy to get swamped with them.
I tend to grab them when I see them and put em in an 'Unplugged rubies' folder. Then load them one at at time and decide if I will find them useful, if not, then back they go to unplugged, cos you never know. (It's often useful to open them in notepad for any documentation.)
As well as these, I find 'Purge', 'Start front face tool' and "copy along path' essential.
I hope you will find this useful, you gotta get into rubies, every time a ruby wiz releases a new ruby its almost like getting a new version of sketchup.

I'm sure others will have a few recomendations too.

baz

mitcorb · 9 Oct 2009, 15:49

By "Taschen", do you mean the bookstore?

Re: the illustration--nice ride!!