Posts made by Edson

daniel and chuck,

so far i have found nothing, nor a control panel nor a driver from nvidia at their site. but i shall persist...

yeah, welcome dennis. i was just the other day checking your books at amazon and now you are one of us.

regards,

edson

nobody knows yet but bad breaks is too gross a reason to be true. those guys follow international standars of maintenance. people are talking of problems on the brand new runway, too much speed on landing, etc. but something was amiss, that is for sure.

thanks tom, bruce and eric,

the way i see it this tragedy was not a freak accident but a consequence of the fact that brasil is not yet a real country but a populated lansdcape. what i mean to say is that things here do not work as well as in north america and europe (yes, i know you have problems too, but I know from personal experience that your countries do work) as collective organizations.

it probably has something to do with the fact that brasil was, for centuries, a place to be exploited. even after we became independent some colonial mentalities remained. the old elite, who used to be at the service of the colonizers left a terrible legacy. until today we feel it; it says "grab as much as you can no matter what", "do not care for others, just for yourself", and so on.

thus our governments have not really tried to build a country. something gets done, of course, but much, much less that what could have been done. thus corruption, thus poverty, thus unemployment, thus crime, thus neglect of fundamental public services, THUS TUESDAY'S TRAGEDY.

lest this becomes too somber, i should say i am an optimist in the long run (human intelligence will prevail) but have no hope this will happen in my lifetime.

best wishes to you all.

hey, tom. thanks for caring, really.

we are safe but did you realize the flight originated from the place where i live? hence more than a 100 people from this province lost their lives in the crash. i knew a couple of them personally and several others by name. i can hardly meet someone who is not related to some of the dead. since tuesday porto alegre is noticeably sadder than usual.

well, life must go on. cheers.

excellent, eric. I shall be happy if I end up doing stuff half as good as yours. keep it up!

thank you all. at least now i know who or what the culprit is. i will try to save at a higher definition to see if it helps.

tim, my macbook pro has a GeForce 8600 GT card. i wonder if it comes with a control panel. where could it be?

hi craig,

one can feel your enthusiasm about the house! and you are quite right, too. living in a place made to fit one's needs is really great. congratulations.

it does not really matter what we think about the house as it is now. it will become your house when you finish remodelling it.

if i can be of any help during the design phase, please let me know. i would be glad to give you an opinion.

best wishes for your house and family.

edson

eric,

allow me to suggest you have a look at the site of Michel Montignac, a nutritionist who is revolutionizing his field going against the idea that in order to loose weight you must eat less calories. he developed a whole method based on the concept of glycemic indexes.

i read his book, it made sense to me, and now i am applying a lot of what he says and changing my eating habits.

enjoy it.

my best wishes to you both. and for you, gaieus, all the strengh needed to guide us ahead!

this is a follow up to my search for a perforated metal sheet image.

almost always when there is a repetition of an element many times there comes the so called moire effect, those ripples and circles that appear on facades, like in the image below.

is there a way to get rid of it or at least improve it without letting go of the repetitive elements?

thanks, ron, still on time, yeah. i am working on a competition and intend to use these sheets for sun shading.

although a bit late, please receive my best wishes for today and beyond!

thanks, sketchy. it is very kind of you.

the attached image shows what is included in one of those folders.

should i change any of them to .skm or the actual zipped file?

besides, there is no stopping someone who is decided to make inappropriate use of someone else's work. an exploded or locked model will only make it more difficult for the one decided to steal it.

one of my beliefs is that designing is re-creating what is around us. the beginning of a project is more often than not an existing project. however, this should be done openly and honestly, acknowledging the influence, crediting the project that has helped one go ahead and transcending it to make one's creation a unique thing.

eeva and chuck,

you have convinced me. one more reason to cherish this community.

right you are, chuck. it just goes to prove that everything has many aspects to it. thus there is never a definitive truth that applies to all situations.

cheers.

@unknownuser said:

OTOH, exploding everything allows the recipient to use the model without "using" it. For me, this is as close as you can get in SU to "locking" the model, preventing ( or at least making it difficult) others from modifying it.

chuck,

in this case, why bother uploading the model at all? a locked model or a disorganized one is useless. a few images would do the job.

hi dave,

you are right in that i should not be complainng about something i get for free on the web. but, once that is agreed upon, if you make your work available in this way why not make it really available by allowing others to explore it and put it to several uses?

the first person to benefit from a well organized model is its own author.

however, i respect all opinions to the contrary.

@unknownuser said:

sometimes i roam around cyberspace in search of models of buildings by important architects. the idea is to show them to my design students, to be able to "enter" them in a way pictures do not allow.

however, most of the models i download are useless in that respect, the reason being the fact that their geometry is not well organized: all you get is faces and edges. walls, floors, roofs, posts, beams, etc are not grouped and this makes it difficult for anyone attempting to explore the object. when i try to hide a wall, for instance, i end up only hiding the external face. and so on.

so, my suggestion to all of you who are starting with SU: always draw on layer o, group all the elements of a building, make them components if there will be more than two instances of an element, and organize by layers for the sake of making visualization easier (both for you and for others who may have to deal with your model).

just posted this on the newbie forum and would like to know your opinion on the subject.