I got the idea to do this perspective shot from an old Studio Yearbook sketch. I may do some more work to it, but it's taken months to do this much with a 2 1/2 year old crawling all over me every time I sit down. SU, Blender, Thea, various models from around the interwebs and 3DWH. Crits welcome.
Bumping an old but useful thread:
MyPaint Windows/Linux and a bunch of free brushes. I like the minimalist interface.
I would love to see a time-lapse screen capture of your work.
Fantastic.
1/2 scale? That's impressive. I'm very glad to see SU being used in 3D real-world output, I hope to do someday as well. Looking forward to seeing the progress and perhaps a flight video? 
Happy holidays, Merry Christmas and a great New Year to everyone!
Very cool. Are you an experienced flying model builder? I understand that direct scaling of the camber/chord/etc.. of a wing does not always render a flyable wing in a scaled model, how did you adjust for this?
Mac, I'm curious if you've read my thoughts on that Amendment. What benefit is there to the status quo?
Regarding x-rays and ADD, it would be beneficial to reasearch a subject before citing it as a basis to support an opinion. First, it isn't X-rays, it's an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), a device that is used to map brain activity. Second, there is no clinical basis supporting the use of fMRI to diagnose ADD or ADHD. Either your information is incorrect or the Dr. doing the testing is using a valuable medical resource improperly and costing the people and insurance companies a lot of money. There is current data from several sources supporting my position. One from Princeton:
@unknownuser said:
Despite the promise of brain imaging for aiding clinical diagnosis, currently no imaging techniques are recommended for this purpose...
. Princeton, 2012.
A random source:
@unknownuser said:
There is substantial evidence of a brain metabolic deficit in children and adults with ADHD. In patients with ADHD, cranial computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) show no consistent pattern of structural abnormalities in adults or children that would be of significant benefit in diagnosis of ADHD.
I also take exception to the use of the epithet "leftist" in your comments. If you choose to use that term I submit that the opposite side if the political spectrum is the one responsible for supporting cutting medical services to the mentally unstable (from families who cannot afford insurance, or the individual is unableto obtain it for multiple reasons), supporting loss of insurance due to pre-existing conditions (by opposition to changing the restriction) and by opposing or failing to contribute useful legislation regarding the sale and ownership of firearms.
Regarding the Chinese students in the recent knife attack - while it is a horrific incident, all of the children are still alive.
Interesting that the subject came up about the government coming to take guns. I have to lay out the poorly thought out logic of that idea. I also must question why so many of these arguments in favor of the status quo are never examined in depth by the people who use them? It's almost always a "tough guy" attitude or simply a resistance to change that seems to be the base for the position. Easily toppled, but all too quickly replaced with the next piece of dogma from the extreme gun supporter belief system.
But to the point - If the government comes for your guns, it's too late. In all senses of the use of the word. The individual, and all like believers, have lost. If you elect to fight (the tough-guy cold dead hands argument), you will lose. You CANNOT win against the government. All you will have done is shot your fellow citizens who are the soldiers or law enforcement officers sent to take the guns.
Congratulations, you are the next mass killer.
You have killed fathers, brothers, sons, and maybe even wives and mothers along the way.
APC rounds also serve only one purpose - penetrate metal or body armor and kill the human behind it. Completely unnecessary. If you also believe in some sort of uprising against the government, well... That means civil war. And the government is the least of your worries at that point because it means everything has collapsed. You'll be lucky to have food, water, medicine, fuel or power as those will have disappeared with the supply lines destroyed by war. You say you have guns to take/defend what you need? So does every other starving fool out there. You'll shoot them? Guess what, see the statement about killing fathers and sons. They shoot back, too. In that situation there is no loyalty to fellow gun owners. Again, you lose.
I can hear the Second Amendment argument bubbling up already, but let me add to my previous post about the subject. When the Second Amendment was written, this country was incredibly rural. The nearest assistance to help repel attacks might have been days or even weeks away. There was no standing military to help you if you were in an out of the way area. Our new country was also perpetually under threat of attack from the English, Spanish, and native population. Therefore it behooved our citizenry to be armed and possibly belong to a militia to protect themselves, their families and property from what may come.
Those days are gone. Times change. The world changes. To insist otherwise is foolish.
@ccaponigro said:
@unknownuser said:
http://gunowners.org/a12152012.htm
He's entitled to his opinion, obviously, however devoid of commons sense it may be, but the timing!
Let me ask you this. If you could magically transport a man of firmness and virtue into this situation which would you hope he was carrying a book or a gun?
All that is nessasary for evil to prevail is for good men to stand idlely by.
Arm yourself!
No.
The answer is responsible ownership, and owners who are accountable and held responsible. Seeing as many of the most recent shootings have been conducted by people with mental health issues the standard background checks required to purchase a weapon are not sufficient. We also need to look beyond the owner and look at the household; maybe the owner is a model citizen but how about the family members? Do you need guns in a household with a paranoid schizophrenic? A history of chronic depression? Maybe it's fine in most situations, not every person with these problems will be a killer or commit suicide with a gun, but there have been enough cases now where this needs to be on the table.
It's interesting that the segment of our society that is pushing for easy access to weapons with minimal restriction is the same segment that seeks to cut services to those that do not have insurance or cannot afford treatment for mental health issues.
I'm a gun owner, shooter and supporter of the sport. That said, I find many gun owners willfully ignorant and blind supporters of the "arm everyone" mantra. There are a few tired platitudes often used by the gun lobby that I would like to address.
This argument... Man, where do I even start? I can't say in polite company the things I think about people that use this absurdity as an excuse for widespread gun ownership. Sure, people kill people and have done so since people were people. We kill each other with rocks, sticks, knives, swords, cars, cannons, you name it. But people with guns can kill a lot more people, more rapidly than any other privately owned device. Get it? People with GUNS. You don't wipe out a classroom full of kids, a bunch of staff and your mother in the space of an hour or so, with a ROCK.
Cars kill more people... Another foolish argument that doesn't compare to guns, a false comparison. Cars aren't designed to kill people. Quite the opposite, actually. Guns, on the other hand, are designed for the single sole purpose of killing. If you want to compare apples to apples, you must compare the rate of intentional homicide with a vehicle to the rate of intentional homicide with a firearm. Unfortunately for the purposes of this debate the rate of intentional vehicular homicide is so low there are no numbers available. The rate of intentional homicide with a firearm are very easily found. This argument also applies to cholesterol, alcohol and pretty much any other item where "X" kills more people than guns. Name the last time cholesterol wiped out a theater full of people in 5 minutes.
The second amendment says... Yes it does. But let's backtrack in history a little, shall we?
What does a drive by shooting in 1795 sound like?
Clip, clop, clip, clop, clip, clop...
BANG!
Clipclopclipclopclipclopclipclop...
They didn't have 75 round drum mags when this was written. They didn't have Columbine when this was written. They didn't have guns that spewed rounds as fast as you can pull the trigger, run out, and replace the magazine in the matter of seconds, when this was written. Also, look at the second amendment very, very closely. It says "AMENDMENT" right there in the title. Our forefathers were smart enough to know that they couldn't see the future and that our Constitution can be changed. That time needs to come sooner rather than later.
There's much more I could write, but I can only type so fast on a mobile, I may revisit this later and add more.
@daniel said:
@gaieus said:
Maybe the World IS over - only we have not noticed it yet.
...and we're all in Hell!
Impossible. According to Douglas Adam's Law of Bad News, we'd already know.
Oh, and BTW you silly Europeans, it's 12/12/12 NOT 12/12/12.
I've seen this somewhere before, but titled as famous people together. Still interesting to see who met who at some point along the way.
Originally a Belkin N52, the Razer pad is an excellent tool. I've been using one for SU, Gaming, Gimp and Blender for the better part of a decade. It will take a while to get used to it and to properly set up the key mapping, but once done you have all the keys you'll regularly need instantly. I wore my N52 out I used it so much, the Razer version replaced it.
If you plan on utilizing it for many programs it's totally worth it IMO.
Create cylinder of the desired length and diameter. Apply mesh texture to the cylinder, align as needed. Delete end caps. You now have the desired mesh tube.
