Its was an important week in world events. the UN General Assembly meeting followed by the Pittsburgh G-20 meeting.

During his speech, Netanyahu brandished blueprints of Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp, as he exhorted the world to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Just days after Ahmadinejad once again denied the Holocaust, Netanyahu used his speech to warn of another catastrophe.
Netanyahu used the same GW bush rhetoric at the UN General Assembly: Decide if you're on our side or the terrorists' side

Fact: Iran has no nuclear weapons program. Israel does and Israel lets no weapons inspectors into their facilities. They are not a signatory to the nuclear arms pact while everyone else in the world seems to be.

A question that never gets asked in the western media?

Why is Iran a greater threat than Israel?

@dave r said:

Cool. I've wondered that, too. I also wonder how they get them down when the tower goes up inside the building.

taller crane or helicopter

I'm in the process of making a Bifold door ruby: with 2 options open or closed
the open door position are 60 degrees. Ruby excepts only radians!

ie

pi = 3.141592653589793  # 180 degree angle = pi radians 
pi6 = 1.047             #  60 degree angle = pi*0.6666/2   


#-----rotation is about point $pt00 and about the blue axis 60 degrees
t = Geom;;Transformation.rotation($pt00,Geom;;Vector3d.new(0,0,1), -pi*0.6666/2)
group.move!(t)          

Know the symptoms of swine flu

If you wake up looking like this, don't go to work or school.

I use Firefox and I run CCleaner each morning, which deletes your internet history and other crap.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

You know its hot when this happens!

Absolutely Brilliant!
that's the kind of humor that used to be produced by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller, a long long time ago.

I was about to make the comment:
"how did I end up wasting my time using AutoCad for next 20 years",
But then I saw that someone had posted a similar observation in the you tube tread.

Its downright frightening to imagine how many souls are still using AutoCad.

Thanks for shining a light on this for me Chris, I need to get new batteries

How to I stop the transformation for the "left leaf" from influencing the "right leaf" ?
is there some type of reset statement available? TIA

group=entities.add_group
    entities=group.entities 
    #----left leaf
    left=entities.add_face($pt00, $pt4, $pt5, $pt33)
    left.pushpull $ddthick 
    #rotation is about point $pt000 and about the blue axis 80 degrees
    t=Geom;;Transformation.rotation($pt000,Geom;;Vector3d.new(0,0,1), -pi*0.8888/2)
    group.move!(t)
       
        
    group=entities.add_group
    entities=group.entities 
    #----right leaf 
    right=entities.add_face($pt4, $pt11, $pt22, $pt5)
    right.pushpull $ddthick

@kirill2008 said:

@utiler said:

Have you thought about adding a path function to this script?

Yes, I think about it almost every day (and some times night too). I want to add a path processing very much,

Yes I have been there too sometimes I have even dreamed of the answer, but forgot to write it down just before I woke up. Then later I would get a deja vú moment where the solution I eventually arrived at was the same as what I had dreamed of.

I like the path idea.

@tomot said:

yes I know, but as my pic shows I would like the text oriented so that I don't have to read it upside down

I just discovered that the first implementation of Shape bender will influence a second implementation, in the same file. however I can combine one with cutting and pasting from another file.

yes I know, but as my pic shows I would like the text oriented so that I don't have to read it upside down

Wow! great tool. It looks like it would not be to hard to change the code to create orientated text for a Catenary curve? Which is not possible in the present version.

I don't want you to misunderstand. This is not only related to the "y" shape. Other shapes have produced the same inconsistent results in SU 7.
another example:
make 2 identical closed shapes, scale one larger, apply bend, same code error occurs

cheers.

Nice plugin! but still needs some tweaking.
I find it first works with a new fresh startup screen. but then the more experimenting I do with Blend the more inconsistant the results become, finally the Bend of the left Y's in the picture did not take place at all.

Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `vertices' for nil;NilClass>
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb;45;in `blend'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb;174
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb;153;in `call'

please don't give up!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/13/investigative-journalism-protecting-sources

@remus said:

Alas i'm stuck with a mere dual core. I'm sure a render farm would fix that, though

Its hard to compare resuslts, I'm just learning, and test driving V-ray for SU
It did this simple rendering in 7 min.

@remus said:

In this case I think it was a combination of slowish CPU, large output size and the single light source.

Could I ask what makes you think maxwell would be faster? I would have thought the render times would have been pretty similar really.

It used to be similar until I finally got a quad core machine.

@remus said:

<twisted logic>

I dont own a car (or plan to), so that sort of cancels it out.

</twisted logic>

So why did it take that long? (even Maxwell does not take that long)

1. slow CPU?
2. slow rendering execution?
3. other?