You probably don't get the respect/recognition because men are notorious whiners. Being one myself you might think I agree, but I'm of the rare 'hardass' kind. I'm sure you are of the same breed, so let's agree the rest are screwing it up for me and you with their pittyful behaviour

To most other men, please carry your discomfort with dignity so as not to stigmatize an entire gender. Thank you.

Cool style guys (Pugz' tropical house as well)!
I wonder if this will evolve to your own signature-style

I don't think I could do without PS to be honest. I usually add groundcover, sky, background vegetation and 2d people in post. But apart from that, PS is very important for me to get the contrast, bloom, (un)sharpness, vignetting, saturation etc just right.

Here's a lowres before and after example:

Very nice indeed Dspace. Is the backdrop a standard Keyshot scene or did you shop it in?

Yep, Dylan and Martha are right. Roofmaterial is part of the underlying original picture, no modelling done on that. Thanks again for comments

Thanks guys! Vegetation's all from Solo's garden pack.

LOL you gave me an idea Lyall, gonna see if I can sneak in a marihuanaplant in a commercial job sometime

Hi all,

hoping for some C&C on this one. Rendered with Twilight and inserted/edited in Photoshop.

Thanks for your comments!

Sweet! Such a variety of styles you master... I think my favorites are the interior and the senior housing, especially the top image of the senior housing-one. The pumpstation has a very seventies feel to it, not my taste

One crit about the interior, the dude on the right kind of feels like he's his own shadow at the same time. Maybe moving him a little to the left would've separated him from the wall a little more.

Oh and the church just works. Simple yet very effective

Looks cool, I wonder if it'll support Piratebay

TBH though, I wish they'd put a little more time into meeting the demands that users of a certain other Google-app have

Thanks for the link Bob, great stuff. My vote would be the bridge. That curve has a flow to it, almost seems like it's moving!

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(www.lottolab.org)

I'm stunned

Hi Tom,

More often than not it's a result of all the hidden geometry that 'from contours' creates. Try opening the group you created by using the 'from contours' command and showing hidden geometry (View->Hidden Geometry). While inside the group you can now use the eraser-tool to get rid of all those lines that reside on horizontal planes.
It's tedious, I know, but the more you use it the better (and quicker) you will get at it

I hope this helps. If it doesn't, let me know cos I can post some screenshots if you want.

EDIT: just realised, you may be dealing with really complicated lines that cause an extreme amount of triangulation. You should be able to see that by viewing hidden geometry. If that's the case you might wanna redraw the lines in SU Unless someone has a fix of course

@jean lemire said:

Just ideas

Just ideas indeed, but not bad ideas

I can sympathize with Michalis on the whole Plato-Homer thing, and feel there's no real need to bring Greece's current financial position into the discussion.

That aside, I love your project man! It's great how you mix 'boring old' math with computers and 3d animation. I bet there's not a single student who didn't love doing this, and I'm sure by doing this you've taught your students a much better feeling for triple-axis systems. I was always pretty good at math, but some of my classmates weren't. They would've had great benefit from a project like this.

I'm not entirely sure what to say about this.

Would you like comments on design, modelling or rendering?

Couple of things.

First, wow! Second, wow! and third, WOW!

I really love it. Some may say it's a little overexposed, but I dig the style. Which renderer did you use?
What I'd change:

• The mirror behind the (awesome) chair feels a little out of place, it distracts me because there seems to be no practical reason it's there (also: it seems to have no thickness)
• The books have no text on their backs. Would really help towards realism
• The trim above the tiles a little too shiny/reflective, or is it metal?
• The lightspots on the wall to the right (and one to the left) probably should be there, but do distract a little

Don't take this as criticism, I wish I could make a render like this

P.S. Where'd you get the flipflops, chair and ottoman? They're super!

Heehee Apple vs Mac

"Claiming bandwith since 19-who-knows-when..."

I'm quite satisfied using a PC, paying less than half for a mac-laptop with the same specs, and the comfort of not having seen a blue screen for the last four years. And on the techsupport mentioned before; I called Dell to ask why after only a year and a half the 'a' key on my laptop-keyboard was sometimes slightly less responsive. The next day I got a call from a mechanic asking me whether it be more convenient for me to have him come over at 9 am or 5 pm. He arrived the same day at 5 pm and replaced the entire keyboard free of charge, even though I ordered the thing with the standard 'free' support package.

True true, these issues are 'adressed' in the books. However, the thing that makes religious texts both great and terrible is the fact that they're very susceptible to interpretation. My friend Mohammed for example says that according to the teachings of the Islam every person who is of another faith should be considered a threat (rest assured, he's not intent on exterminating us ). My other friend Ibrahim reads, and lives by, the same book but believes that the Qur'an tells him to love and respect every living thing, regardless of religious or cultural beliefs. Most of the things I adressed are viewed differently by people/groups within the same religion (with, as far as I know, the exception of circumcision in the Jewish religion. I have never met a practicing jew opposed to circumcision).

I believe that none of the 'mainstream' religious texts are specific enough for anyone to base a strict set of rules on. Interpreting them involves a mix of personal beliefs and values, cultural/geographical background and the ideas of the people who taught you.

All based on my personal experience from talking to people both in my own surroundings and on my travels. I'm not saying that this is the way it is. Just another case of personal interpretation I suppose

And indeed, as you sort of said; live and let live.

P.S. I consider myself to be pretty eloquent in English for a Dutchy, but damn it's hard to achieve the nuances when you're not using your native language

Don't totally agree with Oli on his statement that religion tears our world apart. Of course the extremes do, but that goes for other extremes as well. For example, extreme greed has terrible effects (exploitation of humans and natural resources), but there's nothing wrong with striving for financial independence. Same goes for religion I feel. Extremism leads to wars and social conflict, but that doesn't mean that anyone who practices a certain religion is contributing to the nasty side-effects.

I don't mind people who practice a religion, no matter which religion it is, as long as they don't bore me to tears with it. I'm interested as a bystander but refuse to be part of it. I also have a friend who collects stamps and I'm ok with him telling me how he found some rare specimen every now and then, but he knows better than to try and convince me to start collecting too. And back to religion again, among my friends are muslims, hindus, christians and jews, and just like the stampcollector we sometimes discuss certain aspects of their faith, but that's as far as it goes.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that as long as the practice of religion is undertaken in the same way a normal hobby is, by all means pray, chant, hug, share, and have a good time

There's other issues of course like abortion, euthanasia, curcimcision (did I spell that ok?), male-female equality etc etc. From my personal experience though, these are largely cultural phenomena falsely linked as being part of a certain religion per se.

My 2 cents

You know you need a break when...

you're walking through your model to get a user-perspective, round a corner, and the iClone 3d dude standing there scares you so bad you spill your wine all over your keyboard.

True story, unfortunately