Posts made by Edson

francois, jeff and mike,

beautiful work. as part of my search for a rendering engine that I could learn in a reasonable stretch of time I downloaded cheetah 3D but have not started working with it. my hunch is that it is probably one of the best bets around. (I keep waiting anxiously for kerkythea to be ported to mac)

on the other hand, I have been playing with Artlantis R/Studio (rendering and animation app) and the first tries have been encouraging: easy to learn, intuitive, real time application of materials to surfaces, etc. however, it is not as cheap as cheetah (even though I got a faculty one year free license).

but I shall get to cheetah eventually.

regards.

edson

hi elysium,

this is great stuff. my hat is off to you. being an architect and teacher your model touches me in more than one way.

keep up the good work. perhaps sometime in the future you will allow me to show the whole model to my students in brasil.

regards.

thank you all. just imagine the amount of good stuff from this forum there will be to remember in 2008!

edson

coen,

it is a pleasure to know we were born on the same day (a couple of decades apart, to be true)!

best wishes and have a good day. and, of course, many, many thanks, for making this forum possible.

a very happy bithday to tiersius, too.

edson

yesterday i received birthday greetings (one day late, though) from the old forum. very spooky. did i have a paranormal experience? are the dead trying to reach me? is there life after death?

too many questions, better get back to business.

on the other hand, we are having a cold wave here at the southern tip of brasil. you perhaps imagine the whole brasil has a tropical climate. nope, the south is different, with 4 well defined seasons. this year we are having constant cold, with even some traces of snow!!!! just picture me all bundled up in front of my screen.

warm regards.

even though i have been a mac user for 12 years, i do not use safari all the time, just to connect to my bank and for some special navigation. the rest of the time i use firefox.

tim,

i tried that but did not know what to change it to. the system offered me a few options that did not help me. when the same happened to .rb files the way out was to assign them to textedit (since ruby files are actually text files) and to save them again from TE. but i could not do something similar with the .style.

after i posted this topic i have seen mentions to the fact that .style is not a valit ending here. perhaps this is the reason i was having trouble.

notice too that right now all the .style files posted here have been deactivated.

but thanks, anyway.

i second that, tom. it felt like a brief maintenance break. some people could learn from coen and co....

@lapx said:

Here is my attempt with a smaller fall.

the fall is small but the pool is just about what i want. thanks.

hi pete,

thanks for the effort. my favorite is the daylight scene. somehow the night scene looks like a glass slab rather than a sheet of running water.

regards.

great work, tom! i would never tell it has been done in a computer. my hat is off to you.

@nick w said:

Edson, here's a crazy connection for you. My good friend who will be managing this coffee shop is dating a girl from Sao Paulo who will be spending a year at a university in Porto Alegre. I haven't yet found out which university, but she will be in your city and maybe even in your neighborhood.

yes, nick, it is crazy. it would be even crazier if she came to study where i teach and became my student!

tell her to look me up if she needs some pointers (phone numbers at my site).

cheers and good luck with this job.

should the budget allow it, i would make the interior a real box, with continuous walls. the nooks and crannies bother me a little, but this is just me. i always go for the solution with the most formal identity, which means the users will understand it. no doubt the shapes that possess this character are the primary ones: boxes, cylinders, etc.

i wonder if this reads as a suggestion or as a personal musing.

cheers.

it is the effect of getting a good reaction from my clients. by the way, are you related to eric lay, a member of this very forum? you look so much thinner than him!

have a good weekend.

thanks, gai. the care about modelling the site right paid off at the meeting with the clients as their first question at seeing the short animation i presented them was: is the site correct contourwise? it was very reassuring to be able to say "yes, it is correct down to the last contour line".

this job has been very rewarding for us as we have been doing everything: the urban design, the architecture, the modelling, the presentation. and the clients are good, respectful and always pay on time, qualities that are not so common down here.

cheers and have a good weekend.

time to show some of my stuff. this is part of a large urban project we are doing, a residential subdivision for 105 families in the wine-making area of the province where i live. what you see here is the clubhouse (klabhaus in the studio jargon). this morning we showed it to the developers and they aproved 95% of it (a couple of minor changes to be made).

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@mike lucey said:

Hi Edson,

I've finally got around to running Parallels 3 with Leopard 10.5. I find it better than BootCamp and much more convenient. I think Parallels V3 is a definite improvement over version 2 on the graphics front.

Mike

i tried parallels for 15 days and was quite happy with it so i bought a license. however, since my use of bootcamp was limited to a couple of apps i could not find much difference between it and parallels.

on the other hand, we are trying out vmware fusion and it seems a really good way alternative to run win on mac.

thanks.

@unknownuser said:

Edson, can I ask what do you do while kerky is rendering a scene? How long does this take? Since you obviously already own a copy of WindowsXP to run under Boot Camp while not just have a PC for your Site Builder and Kerky?

glenn,
i have not yet started trying out KT. i am running windows on mac to run an app from yahoo to manage my website.

parallels at US80 is much cheaper than buying a PC, don't you think?

regards.

for some strange reason .rb and .style files are downloading as MPEG-1 video file in my macbook. i wonder why. any ideas?

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