Wow that was great! I didn't quite like you last set but this set is fantastic! Shame you couldn't use these for the competition. I really like the thiness of the concrete walls and louvres. The building sit on the ground very gently and with finess from a distance. Hard to achieve with concrete buildings. I love it.

@bellwells said:

Insightful, questionable; biased, absolutely. The author is an Obama supporter.

Being biased doesn't make it less insightful. Best insights are often most biased Ron. I didn't say it wasn't biased, all I said was it was insightful. You are welcome to disagree based on the fact that its biased. If you can get pass the admittedly relentless negative tone the author actually came up with lotsa of interesting facts and about Palin that most other News organisations seem to have failed to pick up.

I scored 0.0 both times for the centre of circle!!

This has put the fear of God into me!
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/raba01_.html

LOL for a second I though you where supporting some kind of separatist movement.

I noticed that you have Catalan and no Spanish? How come?

Wow nice looking image! I actually quite like the grains.

@unknownuser said:

@chango70 said:

I believe a new, more flexible way of political representation is urgently needed for mass Democracy to have any relavance for post-industrial societies.

What do you mean by this? What kind of flexibility do you have in mind?

Like I said before the problem resides in political parties voted in and making decision RE-PRESENTING you, the voting public. To use a example I used before as society become more diversified party representation becomes increasingly too simple to truely represent the spectrum of opinions. I have no ready solution to any of this. What I do know is that in order remain relavent our current democratic system will have to go through some changes to accomodate these changes otherwise we will continue to see a erosion of voting numbers (I consider anything below 50% national turnout to be void).

Technology could offer us a solution. In some scandinavian countries like Demark. Electronic voting have been tried. The basic infrastructure of internet also offer great many potential for increased transparency and openess as well as direct participatory Democratic decision making. Government need to be allowed to experinment.

Try this
http://www.vray-materials.de/

This one for free.

http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=90&topic=3190.0

Was that Excel sheet towards the end? Pretty cool tool.

Where the ridges meet looks a bit weird? Can it be resolved using diplacement alone?

Haha thats brilliant! Great effort!

WOW! Fantastic plugin! This is where plugins are no longer just tools, they are becoming creative works of art! Thanks!

Can you upload the PS version as well please. Cheers

I use Q-Dir as my explorer and all Sketchup thumbnails show up fine.

I do not neccessarily agree whole-heartedly with Richard Dawkins however I do think it is very important that religion is kept out of public discourse.

Good render. However I see a faint reflection on the concrete wall. Thats not possible in real life.

I've upgraded to 176.something something already. From Nvidia website I think.

Agnosticsm is the only reasonable course of action.

Well if we don't get too hang-up on the words 'scientific' and 'regligioius' and how they are set up as THE dichotomy of our time then it is perhaps not to hard to see that scientific enquiry do not preclude the existence of God, however it just makes it extremely unlikely to be anything resembling beliefs held by existing organised religion. Science has no means to exclude the CONCEPT of God, it is in a position to disaprove claims of truth from most of the existing scriptured religions.