I never said it was not good. I responded to someone who thinks povray is state of the art and its not. Its a ray tracer. All state of the art renderers use some form of Radiosity now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosity and even radiosity is OLD NEWS. There is a siggraph paper on it from 1993 http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperG raph/radiosity/radiosity.htm Strata Studio pro version 2 from 1994 included a radiosity renderer. It took days to render a screen res file but it had it. I am not knocking the work or the quality of of the renders. I am saying that its not state of the art like the original poster thinks. He does not need to wait 5 years for far superior rendering. Its here. Global Illumination (aka Radiosity) Is just plain better rendering technique. Its still Slow, but thats what you get when instead of measuring 1 segment of light from light source to object you decide to measure say 5-500 segments of that light. Source to object, difusion off of object to next object, repeat, repeatl repeat, and ever difusion adds a non finite amout of additional rays. Well guess what It looks more like real life.
Umm YES I AM. All the metal should be acting as a light source and the reflection on the back cabnet should also be radiating light. Its a good render for ray tracer but RAY TRACING IS OLD. Radiosity and stocastic renders are much higher quality then this.
You must be kidding that those look real. Those renders look like they are more like 5+ years old. Have a look at what a modern rendering looks like here. http://www.highend3d.com/artists/
With 500 channels do you really think $50 bucks a months covers the cost of spike tnt sci-fi? You know how much it cost to produce say Battle star Galactica? Now add both Star Gates to that. Now take $50 x subscribers( only 30% of all house holds have cable or Sat.) and divide that by 500 channels. Less then a million people watch sci fi's friday night line up. Each paying less then $1 to sci-fi. Umm its cost better then a million an episode to produce Battle star galacica why do you think they only make 16 episodes a year instead of the 22-24 for a normal show?
over 70? umm thats the normal speed on the highways around here. How about over 90. Better yet how about over 120. Oh wait that might not be to safe uhh good use of a car simulator maybe?
I don't know about windows but on the Mac single thread games do get a boost from the second cpu because all the open al calls go to the second processor. Maybe windows does something like this?? I don't know but it would mean that games would get a boost from the second cpu already.
Are there templates for open office somewhere? I'm no document designer so even the over used ones in MS are welcome. I know I can use the MS Office templates in NeoOffice/j but I obvously have office to use them in in the first place. I think that for a lot of average people those templates make a big deal. So I am wondering where I can get templates for open office. There must be someplace? I checked openoffice.org and couldn't find any. Maybe there needs to be a site that deals with just having OO templates or maybe they need to host them on the openoffice.orghttp://openoffice.org/ website.
Call current provider and say, "I'm thinking of switching to another provider because they will give me a free dvr. If you can match that I will stay with you." That's how we got our Dish netowork DVR. Which does 2 tvs. Recently talked to comcast about switching to them but said we want dvrs for 4 rooms. They said yes. (we want on demand feature from comcast) So will probably switch to Comcast when our dish contract is up in a month. Only reservation is that we hear comcast dvr sucks. Dish's is pretty nice.
Umm EVERY program that prints can create a PDF on the Mac. It's an option in the print dialog, SAVE AS PDF. Its a big button right on the button of the print dialog box. Yes I know it won't make a PDF form. So its massivly easy to make PDF's on the Mac.
Tell me if I am wrong here. The problem with DNG is that most people don't design hardware around software. You create the hardware then create a app that accesses what the hardware can do. Wouldn't hardware be limited buy the slow update process of the app. When ATI/nvidia build a gpu they dont make the driver first. I agree the that the raw formats from the companies should be open but I don't see how building hardware to suite software will work out. Adobe says they will update DNG to suite the needs of the camera makers. Which makes since but on whose schedule does this get done? They like to keep the technical details of the new cameras under pretty heavy wraps until near launch so that they can keep there edge. Kind of hard to keep a secret from the compition when you have to let the standard now there is a change coming a year in advance so its works with you new camera when its launched. AGAIN I agree that once its on the market the raw file should be open.
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I never said it was not good. I responded to someone who thinks povray is state of the art and its not. Its a ray tracer. All state of the art renderers use some form of Radiosity now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosity and even radiosity is OLD NEWS. There is a siggraph paper on it from 1993 http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperG raph/radiosity/radiosity.htm Strata Studio pro version 2 from 1994 included a radiosity renderer. It took days to render a screen res file but it had it. I am not knocking the work or the quality of of the renders. I am saying that its not state of the art like the original poster thinks. He does not need to wait 5 years for far superior rendering. Its here. Global Illumination (aka Radiosity) Is just plain better rendering technique. Its still Slow, but thats what you get when instead of measuring 1 segment of light from light source to object you decide to measure say 5-500 segments of that light. Source to object, difusion off of object to next object, repeat, repeatl repeat, and ever difusion adds a non finite amout of additional rays. Well guess what It looks more like real life.
Umm YES I AM. All the metal should be acting as a light source and the reflection on the back cabnet should also be radiating light. Its a good render for ray tracer but RAY TRACING IS OLD. Radiosity and stocastic renders are much higher quality then this.
You must be kidding that those look real. Those renders look like they are more like 5+ years old. Have a look at what a modern rendering looks like here. http://www.highend3d.com/artists/
With 500 channels do you really think $50 bucks a months covers the cost of spike tnt sci-fi? You know how much it cost to produce say Battle star Galactica? Now add both Star Gates to that. Now take $50 x subscribers( only 30% of all house holds have cable or Sat.) and divide that by 500 channels. Less then a million people watch sci fi's friday night line up. Each paying less then $1 to sci-fi. Umm its cost better then a million an episode to produce Battle star galacica why do you think they only make 16 episodes a year instead of the 22-24 for a normal show?
over 70? umm thats the normal speed on the highways around here. How about over 90. Better yet how about over 120. Oh wait that might not be to safe uhh good use of a car simulator maybe?
I don't know about windows but on the Mac single thread games do get a boost from the second cpu because all the open al calls go to the second processor. Maybe windows does something like this?? I don't know but it would mean that games would get a boost from the second cpu already.
Are there templates for open office somewhere? I'm no document designer so even the over used ones in MS are welcome. I know I can use the MS Office templates in NeoOffice/j but I obvously have office to use them in in the first place. I think that for a lot of average people those templates make a big deal. So I am wondering where I can get templates for open office. There must be someplace? I checked openoffice.org and couldn't find any. Maybe there needs to be a site that deals with just having OO templates or maybe they need to host them on the openoffice.orghttp://openoffice.org/ website.
you know that is fake. They would have listed a retaler along with the prices.
iView Media pro already does this. You just tell it to find dupes and set the tolerence to loose. http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
umm, selling apple a processor (which they have done since the first PPC. The 701 came from IBM not moto.) is not making the computer.
Didn't they discover that wearing VR helmets made people sick. http://davidcrow.ca/publications/kin416/
Actually it is more like 6.3 miles for the last pics.
Call current provider and say, "I'm thinking of switching to another provider because they will give me a free dvr. If you can match that I will stay with you." That's how we got our Dish netowork DVR. Which does 2 tvs. Recently talked to comcast about switching to them but said we want dvrs for 4 rooms. They said yes. (we want on demand feature from comcast) So will probably switch to Comcast when our dish contract is up in a month. Only reservation is that we hear comcast dvr sucks. Dish's is pretty nice.
1 thing that would make it better: can you say "Tiger Terminal Server Edition"? Doesn't OS X already do this via Network booting?
this looks pretty easy to understand to me it's all laid out in nice small txt files and the link to each txt says exactly what the patch does. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005 _04.html#008042
Did you miss the part that says LGPL not GPL??
huh? I don't know maybe it was frozen as well.
The big exposion was caused me Styrofoam hitting the leading edge of the wing not ice.
and they lost the suit when apple hat MAC OS 9 because it was preceeded by MAC. Seems like the same would occur here its MAC OS TIGER (10.4)
Umm EVERY program that prints can create a PDF on the Mac. It's an option in the print dialog, SAVE AS PDF. Its a big button right on the button of the print dialog box. Yes I know it won't make a PDF form. So its massivly easy to make PDF's on the Mac.
Tell me if I am wrong here. The problem with DNG is that most people don't design hardware around software. You create the hardware then create a app that accesses what the hardware can do. Wouldn't hardware be limited buy the slow update process of the app. When ATI/nvidia build a gpu they dont make the driver first. I agree the that the raw formats from the companies should be open but I don't see how building hardware to suite software will work out. Adobe says they will update DNG to suite the needs of the camera makers. Which makes since but on whose schedule does this get done? They like to keep the technical details of the new cameras under pretty heavy wraps until near launch so that they can keep there edge. Kind of hard to keep a secret from the compition when you have to let the standard now there is a change coming a year in advance so its works with you new camera when its launched. AGAIN I agree that once its on the market the raw file should be open.