@michaliszissiou said:

@unknownuser said:

God did not create the universe, it is the universe and the universe is god.

If god is the universe then who/what created god-universe?

Boofredlay's example on love is great.

Who created time? Universe? Existence?
Why? What's the purpose?
Who created "My" God? Why I exist?
Do I have a soul?
In a universe that everything is living and dying, to make space for a new birth, is there anything immortal?
There's probably a death, hidden behind the birth of the universe and scientists will find it, sooner or later.
Or... this bigbang created death... which is equal.
I have strong evidences on this.

Once again.
We're talking about the purpose of the existence.
About god, immortality, life.
Avoiding the word death,
Let's talk about love then, is it immortal? Who cares. Is love just a warm feeling? We can't live without it. Can we?
It's the only think we can do, after all. That's the spirit.

What frightens me?
"for the people made their recollection fit in with their sufferings..."
THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
By Thucydides 431 BC

God did not exist before the Universe, as the distance and time of the universe is infinite. And I am supposing that our Universe may be just a subset of a universe of universes. But as to the question of meaning. Again I would suppose the "meaning of life" is to simply have some basic inkling of how the various elements of the Universe are related. Meaning being derived from understanding oneness as a universal principal. If you understand your role in the universe, then perhaps you become at peace with the way of things and cease to struggle with a false dichotomy between all things "self" and everything else in your surroundings. Letting go of the self is not the same as being absorbed by the Borg. It is more like the additional power you get by "Let the force be with you."

I have been able to distill my previous post.

God did not create the universe, it is the universe and the universe is god.

@solo said:

@box said:

I'm not really sure what your video has to do with the subject of this thread but it did lead me to this rather interesting Christian viewpoint.

Freakazoid!
Lentil season? Everyone sits around and eats lentil soup? Japanese are Buddhist, Shinto, and Christian with a few atheists thrown in to round out the mix. Humor or lunacy or lunatic humor?

You can learn SketchUp in a day and spend a lifetime mastering it. Sort of like Chess or Go.

You build it in the path of a tornado.

The gray window is very confusing. Is it a window? If I am looking through it, I should see some hint of what is in teh building, not what seems to be a Southwestern scene. If it is a reflection from the outside, It should show elements of the courtyard. And, in any case, the scene would have some color in it, it would never be neutral gray.

Also, the top of the white fence is spikey, but its shadow is not spikey.

The white building in the background does not read properly. The end of the building is shown side on as a straight line. That should not happen if the white building is parallel to the red one. And even if that was a true perspective, you should move the camera as the result of that angle is visually ambiguous.

The tree shadow is moving in a different direction than the cube shadow. The sun is 93 million miles away so rays from teh sun should be virtually parallel. This leads me that you have inserted a light in the scene rather than using "set sun as light source."

You dont.t stop the cut off, but if the viewer clicks the image, it goes into uncropped mode.

Jacktar, are you having a problem getting the perspective to match, removing the modern house and patching the hole that is left or just getting subtle lighting clues and entourage elements to integrate with the image. Could you show us the images that you are working with?

@michaliszissiou said:

Why this animated gif, that 'simon le bon' posted in another thread, why does it remind me what we're all trying to say here?
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/iSimon/BoiteStop.gif
Great animation IMO. Thank you simon.

Simon's gif reminds me of a project we did in design school that required we demonstrate the use of levers. I designed this little blue panel that his a series of lever. The last lever was exposed and labeled pull in this direct. When the instructor came to critique my project, he pulled the lever and another lever moved forward with a banker's pin pointed at the handle of the first lever.

I don't remember my grade.

In Thailand, small and some not so small. "Spirit Houses" are found in the yard of a majority of houses and even in some hotels and commercial buildings. The owner leaves food, drink and incense for the spirits that protect the main house. Resembling bird houses, the structures are usually found on poles or columns just low enough for the property owners to leave their offering.

Being in much need of protection from evil forces, I have decided to build my own here in Arizona. I am having a little problem with fitting the first and second roofs and will have to back track a little.

This is also a way of dragging out my three week Bangkok/Pattaya experience in October.

What if God is the singularity? One with the universe. Is everywhere and nowhere. Is like magnetism encompassing the full range between positive and negative. Are there any Buddhist out there? Isn't the Buddhist nature in everyone? Doesn't early Buddhist literature talk about being one with the "void"? Don't physicists talk about the big bang coming from a singularity and all of us being made of star dust ie. the basic building blocks of the universe. It could be that those on both sides of the argument are simply opposite poles of the same phenomenon.

@windbladezero said:

thats it, how can i do it in sketchup, the model its fine, and when i import it to dae, remains fine, but when i import it again to stl(sketchup doesnt have an stl exporter integrated and the plugin i found, doesnt work, so i downloaded a program that exports from dae to stl)
but the stl get a message error about the inverted normals and the model ends with "empty output", and i really need it
but i dont know how to invert/flip the faces/normals

Select the inverted faces and right click. Then click on "Reverse Faces."

Even though we never met in person, we did meet in spirit and traded some hi-fives online. He seemed like a kind person who did not take kindly to social injustice. I willingly bow to this sensei of SU, Karate, and personal wisdom.

The universe was conceived in SketchUp, but due to the high poly nature of the project there was a crash resulting in the "Big Bang."

This is a fact I learned from 2,000 year old scrolls buried in my back yard.

The tilt top tea table is truly titillating.

Fantastic work as usual. My only small criticism involves trees that appear in reflection that are not in the scene or reflect at the wrong angle. It does not spoil the project, but just proves I am watching closely.

The brake lights almost work, but not quite in that the perspective is not right. They are also too strong as we are seeing only the side of one brake light. They also might add some red color on the nearby wall. Maybe add some detail to the interior so it doesn't look so starkly empty. Still all-in-all a very nice render.

I would say the answer is yes. Take a look at the work by David H that appears in these forums. Definitely possible.

@davidh said:

A revised night shot.I brightened the sky and altered the snow colour so it is more in keeping with the sky colour.I also added additional foreground at the bottom as I think the original image was cropped too close to the building.

I looked at the first night render and thought "David needs some footprints in the snow." Of course you had already done it. Nice.