Make sure the system is fully scriptable. And try to use a real programming language, not something like Mel in Maya.
One thing Maya gets right is its use of cached lazy evaluation and a pull through flowgraph model. If you want any degree of sophistication I think this is essential and your first code ought to be designing the architecture of your flowgraph processing.
Make everything procedural. You should be able to put expressions anywhere in a scene.
Think hard about an API for plugin writers to make it easy for others to extend it. You're going to need all the help you can get.
Who's this person called Science? I know some people who call them scientists and they have all sorts of different opinions about things. But I've never met this person called 'Science'.
High pass means pass through high frequency (eg. spots and other blemishes) while removing low frequency (ie. overall shape). Some video cameras use low pass filters when they see skin tones (programmable for all races!) and in fact in my work we use a high pass filter when we want just the blemishes on someone's face. But don't ask why we do that, we just do.
I hope she turned out to be as good looking as you hoped. A low pass filter does wonders for a woman's beauty and having it removed like that can be a shock!
The starfish analogy makes perfect sense to me. There's no need to make dumb comments about modding because you don't understand something straightforward.
Give 5 legged starfishes the number one. Give 6 legged starfishes the number zero. Now grab any 5 or 6 legged starfish. Add the starfish number to the number of legs you get. When you convert to binary the last digit of this number is always zero. This is very similar to what is going on in the paper and it says nothing whatsoever about starfish.
If all he could get was a $10K bonus then he ought to quit and find a company who'll pay him more. If he was unable to get a job paying more than that, after Nobel prize material, then it must be that other prospective employers don't have very high expectations of his future work. Or you're not telling us the full story.
And I think I can resolve it. Maybe I'll buy the album to encourage others to do the same and then immediately sell it so I don't have to actually listen to it.
I'm sure I once heard a story about people who used to steal electricity by drawing power only during the AC peaks and valleys and that meters used to be unable to detect this. Maybe someone else can confirm or deny this.
He pretty well invented group theory and gave the most amazing proof that there's no formula (using +,*,/,-,nth root) for the roots to a quintic using what's now called Galois theory. But the interesting thing is that he died as a result of a duel and there is an apocryphal story that he spent the last night of his life writing down everything he knew about mathematics in the hopes that his knowledge wouldn't be lost to future generations. Galois theory was used to prove Fermat's Last Theorem among other things.
And it being Hollywood they could arrange to have Galois survive the duel and have a happy ending.
Already if you have a Palm you can use it as an intermediary device to sync between a Windows PC and a Mac. iSync puts a vital link in the chain allowing me to move my diary back and forth between many platforms - not just Apple ones.
It's being plugged all over the Apple web site. If you're a Mac owner I'd be surprised if you didn't know this. This makes me wonder: do you work for Apple and is this a way to get extra coverage on/. because no doubt there'll also be a story when iSync is actually released.
What are you talking about saying 'impress'? QED is a book written for the layman. I'd have to be pretty dumb to try to impress anyone with having read QED when I studied from this and this when doing my PhD.
Dancing Wu Li Masters may be an OK book but don't read it if you want to actually learn some physics. Check out Feynman's QED instead. You won't get any crap about Wu Li in that - just real physics without being cluttered by silly metaphors and mysticism. QED is the real thing and yet it barely has an equation. Vintage stuff!
If you want to learn QM but can't face solving the Schrodinger equation or dealing with vector spaces then read this book. BTW this is the only book worth reading that fits this specification. Don't read books written by journalists or other science popularisers. Read QED. And then learn about linear algebra and differential equations so you can do the real thing.
I think the high-end TI calculators use a version of REDUCE. But it's been stripped down to support the sort of material students get in courses - not the stuff people need in the real world. Years ago I used Mathematica on workstations with 20 MHz CPUs and a couple of MB of RAM. Any Pocket PC could blow those machines away - and yet we see no good packages for pocket devices. You'd think there'd be a need wouldn't you?
...calculator for scientists and engineers? HP used to be the closest thing. But they've stopped doing calculators and all they have are almost decade year old models with a slightly faster CPU. Texas have some half decent calculators but their intended customers are students, not real scientists or engineers, so they lack some important, but heavy duty functionality, that the HPs have. The power available on PDAs today is incredible and yet nobody has seen fit to produce a decent calculator for them either.
And before people start directing me at toy calculators here is some of what I expect of a calculator in 2002:
Real algebra. Not the lame half-attempt in the HP machines.
Full matrix arithmetic. This includes SVD, QR and LU decomposition.
Decent mathematics functionality including elliptic functions and Bessel functions.
Ability to add new datatypes including things like quaternions.
Who cares about burnout? When one lot of programmers is burnt out you just hire a bunch more cannon fodder from the nearest University. The younger you pick 'em the harder you can make 'em work.
OK, I admit I don't actually approve of that point of view, but it's the attitude many companies take.
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Who's this person called Science? I know some people who call them scientists and they have all sorts of different opinions about things. But I've never met this person called 'Science'.
People work for the DMV???
High pass means pass through high frequency (eg. spots and other blemishes) while removing low frequency (ie. overall shape). Some video cameras use low pass filters when they see skin tones (programmable for all races!) and in fact in my work we use a high pass filter when we want just the blemishes on someone's face. But don't ask why we do that, we just do.
I hope she turned out to be as good looking as you hoped. A low pass filter does wonders for a woman's beauty and having it removed like that can be a shock!
Give 5 legged starfishes the number one. Give 6 legged starfishes the number zero. Now grab any 5 or 6 legged starfish. Add the starfish number to the number of legs you get. When you convert to binary the last digit of this number is always zero. This is very similar to what is going on in the paper and it says nothing whatsoever about starfish.
If all he could get was a $10K bonus then he ought to quit and find a company who'll pay him more. If he was unable to get a job paying more than that, after Nobel prize material, then it must be that other prospective employers don't have very high expectations of his future work. Or you're not telling us the full story.
He he. I bought the matchbox model too. The Liberator was an awesome ship and the ship's computer, Zen, was pretty awesome too.
...LAVARAND?
When I did a google search on "negative sequence loads" I got one hit. This must be seriously arcane knowledge!
And I think I can resolve it. Maybe I'll buy the album to encourage others to do the same and then immediately sell it so I don't have to actually listen to it.
I'm sure I once heard a story about people who used to steal electricity by drawing power only during the AC peaks and valleys and that meters used to be unable to detect this. Maybe someone else can confirm or deny this.
And it being Hollywood they could arrange to have Galois survive the duel and have a happy ending.
They'll watch it because they want to see Picard, Worf, Data and Troi again.
Already if you have a Palm you can use it as an intermediary device to sync between a Windows PC and a Mac. iSync puts a vital link in the chain allowing me to move my diary back and forth between many platforms - not just Apple ones.
It's being plugged all over the Apple web site. If you're a Mac owner I'd be surprised if you didn't know this. This makes me wonder: do you work for Apple and is this a way to get extra coverage on /. because no doubt there'll also be a story when iSync is actually released.
What are you talking about saying 'impress'? QED is a book written for the layman. I'd have to be pretty dumb to try to impress anyone with having read QED when I studied from this and this when doing my PhD.
Dancing Wu Li Masters may be an OK book but don't read it if you want to actually learn some physics. Check out Feynman's QED instead. You won't get any crap about Wu Li in that - just real physics without being cluttered by silly metaphors and mysticism. QED is the real thing and yet it barely has an equation. Vintage stuff!
If you want to learn QM but can't face solving the Schrodinger equation or dealing with vector spaces then read this book. BTW this is the only book worth reading that fits this specification. Don't read books written by journalists or other science popularisers. Read QED. And then learn about linear algebra and differential equations so you can do the real thing.
Yup. The American vowels in 'top' and the first syllable of 'father' are the same but in Britain they are distinguished.
I think the high-end TI calculators use a version of REDUCE. But it's been stripped down to support the sort of material students get in courses - not the stuff people need in the real world. Years ago I used Mathematica on workstations with 20 MHz CPUs and a couple of MB of RAM. Any Pocket PC could blow those machines away - and yet we see no good packages for pocket devices. You'd think there'd be a need wouldn't you?
And before people start directing me at toy calculators here is some of what I expect of a calculator in 2002:
You have chosen 8:15pm tonight. Is that correct? Please answer yes or no.
Yes
I did not understand. You have chosen 8:15pm tonight. Is that correct? Please answer yes or no.
Ye-es
I did not understand. You have chosen 8:15pm tonight. Is that correct? Please answer yes or no.
Yeeeeeesssss.
I did not understand. You have chosen 8:15pm tonight. Is that correct? Please answer yes or no.
Yeah.
I did not understand. You have chosen 8:15pm tonight. Is that correct? Please answer yes or no.
YYY-EEE-SSS!
I did not understand. You have chosen 8:15pm tonight. Is that correct? Please answer yes or no.
Fuck you!
Thank you. Your tickets for 8:15pm tonight can be collected from the kiosk. Have a nice day.
OK, I admit I don't actually approve of that point of view, but it's the attitude many companies take.