Anyone know anything about this? Rumour Reported Feb 14 upfrontezine.com

Sounds like a good idea to me!

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Rabbit

uhhh - that's "Lara" Croft - best to get the important things right eh....?

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rabbit

Just read this in a 1956 "handy Hints" publication:

"Measure the span of your hand - then you will always have an accurate measuring rule with you."

Wow - that is so simple - mine is 200mm so thats very tidy!

I suppose I should measure my stride (which I often use as a rough meter) and also my foot!

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rabbit

I'm surprised to learn he was 65...I always liked that picture of him that he used, sitting at this desk, sort of gave me the impression he was endlessly chipping away at stuff, always there,.....reminds me of Cellist Pablo Casals on being asked why he still practices 3 hours a day at 93 years old:

"I’m beginning to notice some improvement".

bon voyage honolulu...

rabbit

Yes! - thats it.

Thanks so much

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rabbit

Does anyone remember, from a few years ago, the work of this guy who animated a 7 or 8 minute piece based around a famous library somewhere...? He used a warehouse model of the library as the base for the model, which is how it came up on these forums, or maybe pushpullbar, and then made this stunning rendered animation of books falling through the air etc. It also had a lot of cameras in it, and the whole piece was extraordinary, in that you really could not tell that it wasn't real....???

I bookmarked it at the time, but that was on a different computer that now has gone...

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rabbit

Great sketch! what software did you use on the ipad?

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rabbit

This has just been posted on the rhino forum recently (see screen shot)

(wheeler-racing.blogspot.com)

Also, this site if you are into stairs:

http://www.stairporn.org/

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rabbit

ps: about Rhino I'm a Windows User.

check out http://www.moi3d.com

About $200.00. Free 30 day trial. Coded by the same guy that originally coded rhino, has a simple elegant interface, and a fantastic clean sketchup export.

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rabbit

but wait - there's more!

If you export from sketchup as a 3D model, in dwg or dxf format, then circles ARE exported as true circles, and further, as well as the mesh, a set of vectors describing the edges of the mesh objects are exported also.

Thus in rhino (and I presume autocad) you a have a 3D vector wireframe of your object. So you would simply select the meshes, and delete (or hide) them. You can then simply extrude the curves to create true nurbs objects...and in general use this wireframe as an accurate guide to create your 3D nurbs objects from.

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rabbit