The truth is, giving up artistic and creative instincts is a negative sum. We will be worse off for it. I have not tried the service I referenced but it is suggested that it respects geometry and texture of the model being rendered, no evidence of that so I cannot say.

I am reminded of the HG Wells book, The time machine. A future world where subterranean monsters hunt and devour surface dwelling simpletons. Fugly evil subterranean types and beautiful but stupid surface dwellers more like sheep after a lobotomy.

If ai can be limited to assisting with lighting suggestions and denoising maybe. As a learning tool, that too but otherwise, no thanks Whoda thunk it, a Trekkie Troglodite........

OK, not sleeping sometimes has a positive side to it, thought a bit on an old model 'rod and added a few new elements.

I am noticing that Rayscaper does not always update elements, groups/components as It should but a restart of Rayscaper sorts that right off the bat so NOT a problem.

I have mentioned Maxwell render before, used it to probably not its best but IMHO, Rayscaper beats Maxwell render hands down, NOW, let alone the future.

My big fascination which I am sure you will get, is cars. Ever since I could hold a pencil. Steve, I owe you for inspiring me to never give up with your talent and humility. Thank you, Sir.

Don't mind if I do.

So I try.

An annexe from the bathroom...

I know, sometimes when things go pear shaped, I get the urge to laugh my head off.

Last night the screen went off the charts crazy, dialogue boxes opening and closing all over the screen and I thought everything AND the kitchen sink had gone nuts.

Switched it off and went to Bedfordshire.

This AM, tried again and same thing. Thought about it and narrowed it down to an input problem, then plugged a spare keyboard (OK, old keyboard) and nada. so I vacuum cleaned the current keyboad and everything is back to normal.

Cat fur.

Miaoooooooooow.

@pixelcruncher

I can only concur with that sentiment.

In the mould of Colin Chapman, Bruce McLaren, Sir Frank Williams etc but the last of his kind we shall see in F1.

Always outspoken and never short of an opinion I think he polarised with F1 fans but tbh, always managed to be a fine Irishman, pundit and genuine human being.

RIP to that great paddock where the oil is always Castrol R and the smell/sounds of real F1 rather than souped up hair dryers.

Give 'em some 'stick' Eddie.

@pixelcruncher

Gradually altering settings. A few more components/groups have been adjusted for clarity.

Done good, Sir. Best news I have heard this week.

Onwards and upwardly mobile......

Tried a Rayscaper render, selected GPU, got this is around 4m 45s. No, I cannot see how the graphics card can do this. Chillblast are, quiet and not returning calls.

Likewise, and to all living there right now.

Not to mention the other folk living there and hotspots, too many tin pot dick taters and I include a certain mop threatening to invade Greenland in that.

What on the planet are they drinking/smoking/sniffing/sucking on?

There is definitely something in the water, I should possibly stick to beer perhaps? No, I know it has water in it but boiled at least.

There are some fungal brain infections that can produce similar results but wow, even then, the current situation is extreme.

Are there NO brakes on the conduct of people like these?

Thanks mate, a good antidote to the news.

That is a fairly decent result, how long winded was it?

Which ai enhancer are you using?

@TIG

Agreed, that there 'glow in the dark' tea is not your standard 'Camomile'.......

Ditto the Dissident actor Alexei Navalny

Death and funeral of Alexei Navalny - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

While held in the arctic gulag he apparently died of a heart condition.

It seems there are a lot of dick taters in the world and while one group are apparently waning, the others are definitely gaining ground.

What the freaky Friday is going on with the water?

Sorry, wrote this up and forgot to post it. Tired? Nah, what makes you think that??? Lol.

G'day, the Russian window thing is the events that followed senior Russian 'actors' upsetting putin, they either fell out of conveniently missing windows on high level or in one case from a balcony her apartment had no access to. High up figures in Russian government/military.

There was also the para military feller who halted his military push on Moscow and then had the misfortune of his private jet, colliding with a handily close anti aircraft missile in flight.

Perhaps Iran is short on high enough windows?

Perhaps the Russian 'window' thing could be exported to Iran. Demonstrate the technique on the regime leaders, might make a decent wake up call.

From Trimble support.

Latest bugsplat (Rayscaper minimised, panning in the Sketchup view) has been identified as an issue with the Rayscaper plugin. I have requested the full report to pass on. I shall do that as soon as I have it.

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