this is totally off topic, but "wagon christ", an instrumental hip hop artist has a great video for his latest single, "shadows", which kind of covers this (but with robots)
if it is indeed true that titan is "smooth" (reading the article it seems they are unclear), could this be explained by the oceans of methane we keep hearing about?
"I recently won thousands of pounds at full tilt poker!. It was so easy and now i'm really rich! I picked up poker as a hobby about 4 months ago, you can too!. Perfect for geeks, you are sure to rake in the cash and the wonderful full tilt poker! Any other programmers/computer people find that they can play poker better than the average person because of their computer experience? I sure know i can, thanks to my wonderful employers at full tilt poker!"
To create 3d models it's pretty standard to draw front and side (sometimes top) elevations and use them as guides when making your model.
However i can still see this being pretty useful when you need to put out a low quality comic week after week - as no animation is involved it's a very quick process just to position characters correctly.
I would be surprised if there are no similar cell-shaders available already though..
Another possibility would be to use this as a basis for real-world computer games -
Set up a "level" in the real world with "patterns" at strategic points - incorporated into the design of the level perhaps so they weren't immediatly obvious - enough of these that wherever the user looks there is enough to establish where in the level they are (and what they are looking at..)
Create the same thing in a 3d engine, and you can then have monsters running at you in a real world situation
the book provides the reference point for the 3d object - without it the 3d object wouldn't appear as part of the real world.
i just gave it a go (with the webcam) and basically you can rotate the 3d object by rotating the "book" itself - very simple and very effective - kids would indeed find this easy and fun. It's much easier to rotate something in the real world, that you can see and feel than with a mouse.
Combine that with the glasses so you are seeing 3d objects in the real world..
you can share any file type on soulseek, but the majority is music
What sets it apart is the combination of being able to browse individual users files, meet like-minded (and so like-minded music) people in rooms, and search those rooms.
Basically great for finding obscure music that you didn't know about.
I like to think i am an authority on this, having played Themepark for years on end..
While they might say it is to locate lost children (or their parents), i suspect a convenient side issue will be that they will get a very clear picture of what people spend time and money on in their park.
And whether they think there is too much ice in their soda.
Halo is not what i hoped a "ring-world" would look like..
probably reasonably accurate (the faint curve disapearing into nothing) but not particularly exciting.
A much smaller ring would be far more interesting, although perhaps at photorealism on the big screen it would be more impressive (certainly plenty to do a few good flybys of)
Any yes, Iain M Banks does write the best modern sci-fi.
but check Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon was superb, Broken Angels not so, haven't read the last yet.
I'm sure there are situations where this would be useful - Any situation in which a robot has to stay "alive" for a long period of time without another option (such as solar power) - a rainforest for example
Although what a robot could be used for running around a rainforest i'm not entirely sure..
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but if it turns out to be any good.
the internet is a harsh critic.
that's what i did do. although as i didn't have indexed searching set it took about an hour.. after that i got bored and gave up.
is that i can only open the file i search for!
i planned to sort out my music collection - so i searched for an artist - 87 results.
can i select them all and move them to a folder in one go? no.
for this kind of thing it's useless - i wonder if i can with copernic..
at present it's quite dull.. i didn't have terribly good viewing conditions and only one side of a 10x50 binocular but it was very "smudge"
how much better is it going to get as it nears the pleiades?
quicktime
1px=460m it's going to have to be some kind of giant sim (that's a simulation of being a giant rather than [as well as] being a giant simulation.)
and also the fact i think most scientists would object to it being populated with things for you to shoot
The only way would be to make it a driving game - which i suppose could work (would probably be pretty dull as a game though)
whatmycatshavekilled.blogspot.com
that's great - thanks!
cos frankly i think it's unlikely, especially by 2020 -
How important will computer games be for mars-onauts?
By 2020 there should be some pretty damn good games - very long, very involving, very time consuming.
Add to that about 30 years worth of "retro gaming"
That should keep them busy for long enough..
I suppose you could even combine them with the exercise they would have to do - as the eyetoy and donkey-konga style games do..
if it is indeed true that titan is "smooth" (reading the article it seems they are unclear), could this be explained by the oceans of methane we keep hearing about?
"I recently won thousands of pounds at full tilt poker!. It was so easy and now i'm really rich! I picked up poker as a hobby about 4 months ago, you can too!.
Perfect for geeks, you are sure to rake in the cash and the wonderful full tilt poker!
Any other programmers/computer people find that they can play poker better than the average person because of their computer experience?
I sure know i can, thanks to my wonderful employers at full tilt poker!"
i don't know about you but there is a finite amount of room under my tv..
xbox AND xbox2?
i am no longer surprised that it has not been slashdotted. Dullest video about robots ever?
To create 3d models it's pretty standard to draw front and side (sometimes top) elevations and use them as guides when making your model.
However i can still see this being pretty useful when you need to put out a low quality comic week after week - as no animation is involved it's a very quick process just to position characters correctly.
I would be surprised if there are no similar cell-shaders available already though..
http://www.lileks.com/comics/coffnerv/coff1/index. html
Another possibility would be to use this as a basis for real-world computer games -
Set up a "level" in the real world with "patterns" at strategic points - incorporated into the design of the level perhaps so they weren't immediatly obvious - enough of these that wherever the user looks there is enough to establish where in the level they are (and what they are looking at..)
Create the same thing in a 3d engine, and you can then have monsters running at you in a real world situation
the book provides the reference point for the 3d object - without it the 3d object wouldn't appear as part of the real world.
i just gave it a go (with the webcam) and basically you can rotate the 3d object by rotating the "book" itself - very simple and very effective - kids would indeed find this easy and fun.
It's much easier to rotate something in the real world, that you can see and feel than with a mouse.
Combine that with the glasses so you are seeing 3d objects in the real world..
very cool.
you can share any file type on soulseek, but the majority is music What sets it apart is the combination of being able to browse individual users files, meet like-minded (and so like-minded music) people in rooms, and search those rooms. Basically great for finding obscure music that you didn't know about.
I like to think i am an authority on this, having played Themepark for years on end..
While they might say it is to locate lost children (or their parents), i suspect a convenient side issue will be that they will get a very clear picture of what people spend time and money on in their park.
And whether they think there is too much ice in their soda.
would be interesting to find out if i'm actually right..
time to start saving!
that's the first thing i thought of - yet it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article..
Halo is not what i hoped a "ring-world" would look like.. probably reasonably accurate (the faint curve disapearing into nothing) but not particularly exciting. A much smaller ring would be far more interesting, although perhaps at photorealism on the big screen it would be more impressive (certainly plenty to do a few good flybys of) Any yes, Iain M Banks does write the best modern sci-fi. but check Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon was superb, Broken Angels not so, haven't read the last yet.
This story was featured on slashdot a while back - probably around Wednesday, 6 August, 2003 ;)
looks like the same thing to me.
I'm sure there are situations where this would be useful - Any situation in which a robot has to stay "alive" for a long period of time without another option (such as solar power) - a rainforest for example
Although what a robot could be used for running around a rainforest i'm not entirely sure..
never played hidden and dangerous then..