OT-ish: I see the world in 3D

[squidinc]

yes :D

[Shademaster]

:beer:

[JamesMK]

What you are experiencing, is just the first of many steps towards assimilation.

... don't be afraid... just let it come to you... don't resist it, you know it would be impossible to resist... relax, and let it happen...

resistance is - in fact - futile...

[AdamT]

The secret life of 3Ders. :) True story: I was at a restaurant with my wife last night when I saw her look over her shoulder and then back at me sort of quizically. Naturally I said "Yes?" She was wondering what I'd been staring at, since there was nothing behind her but a blank wall. Well it just so happens that it had a very nice stucco/plaster texture.... Oh well, I guess there are worse things to be caught staring at.

[LucentDreams]

hmm yes becareful she doesn't slap you for carefully studying the way the reflections and highlight work on a skintight red dress that isn't hers eh.

I don't know, I'm pretty passthat hardcore part of that phase, I mean it still happens, but for a short while when I was really getting into 3d especially materials, I did a lot of that. Always gets me though when I'm caught staring at something and I say something like "I'm just checking out how the chromatic aberations in this caustic pattern flow" and they look at me confused and I then say "you know the rainbow pattern" and get that nod of I understand now, but still think you should be insitutionalized.

Still better being an animator making faces at yourself in a reflective face study a certain facial expression instead of eating your meal at a nice resteraunt. Hmmm you know now I think I know another reason why I don't get out much with friends.

[Kirl]

All the time... seriously... :surprised

[JamesMK]

Originally posted by Kaiskai
Still better being an animator making faces at yourself in a reflective face study a certain facial expression instead of eating your meal at a nice resteraunt.
Ha ha! I did just that a couple of days ago. In a foodstore though, but anyway... Speaking of studying your own face - I just put up a mirror on the wall next to my monitor, and I've got to say that was one of the most clever moves I've done in a long time. It's not that I do any animation right now, but it helps a great deal while modeling heads and upper body. It goes a bit weird when it comes to legs and feet, but it's really helpful.

I had some problems with the clavicles on my sideshow guy the other night, so I simply started unbuttoning my shirt to check it out in the mirror mentioned above. I'm just happy nobody came into my room at that moment, since I'm sure it would have looked very strange :D

[LucentDreams]

Originally posted by JamesMK
Ha ha! I did just that a couple of days ago. In a foodstore though, but anyway... Speaking of studying your own face - I just put up a mirror on the wall next to my monitor, and I've got to say that was one of the most clever moves I've done in a long time.

Just becareful its not a mirror with a magnet, at vfs all classical students get a mirror with a magnet to attatch to their animation desk, was great for classical animation, but attatching it any where near the computer could lead to los of vital data on a zip disk or cause interference with the monitor. Thoguh it is kind of cool the colours a TV will change when a magnet is close to it, try a speaker even funner though it takes longer to return to normal.

[JamesMK]

Ah... No, it's an ordinary mirror without magnets, but that's a good tip nevertheless. Magnets and TV-sets is a fun combination, no doubt!

Another one of those hidden dangers are cellphones. Back when I was teaching Photoshop classes, the students had heaps of ordinary 3.5-inch floppies in their handbags and briefcases in order to carry tutorial files etcetera, and after a while we noticed an unusually high rate of corrupted disks... Turns out that some of the students had their cellphones in their bags, next to the floppies, and as their phones received a call or relocated to another network there's this surge of electromagnetic energy, effectively wiping out any useful data... :D

[LucentDreams]

Originally posted by JamesMK
out that some of the students had their cellphones in their bags, next to the floppies,

I hear that can cause impotence too ;)

Man caught me in a wierd mood this thread did. Thats actually a good tip I have a new cell and never thought about what it coudl do to my zip discs (who uses floppies nowadays)

[ReSeT]

You've been ray tracing too long if ...

…you pick the neighborhood you live in by the level of difficulty you expect to have in modelling it.

…you know how far away a scene's light source is just by looking at the shadows.

…you cannot go anywhere without thinking at least 5 times: "I wonder how I could render that…"


:wavey:

And no, I don't think that you need a doctor.

[Geespot]

…you cannot go anywhere without thinking at least 5 times: "I wonder how I could render that…"

I do that :buttrock:

Another one of those hidden dangers are cellphones.

Yea when I was at college, we was told we wasn't allowed to have phones on the desk next to the computers, because strange errors were happening on the pcs. I thought it was all a load of *beep*, just to stop the students using phones in class.

Ooops I guess I thought wrong :shrug:

[unclebob]

Yeah... I'll look at something and start to model it in my head (Rhino .. learning Cinema)

... kinda like when Tetris was big.. I'd be stopped at a light and think... if you took that building and turned it this way, dropped this one here and... then the guy behind me would honk his horn because the light had turned green . :eek:

bob

[kromekat]

Ha! - I thought it was just me!:beer:

I used to do the same when I used paint too - I'd be blending colours and selecting brushes in my head everywhere I went!

Have you ever dreamt a painting/music/cg model over night before? - I mean seemingly spent the entire night engaged in problem solving, refining and completing the problem, only to wake up and wonder where the finished article was!? - that's an arse! - although, it does make it easier to do it for real!! - assuming you can remeber what you dreamt of course!

[Stray]

That happened to me about 4 years ago when I took a formz class at CEA in SF.

I was constantly breaking things down into polygons. it is a strange realization but it wears off after a time. You should be okay.

i had a similar thing happen to me when i was a Quake fanatic. I was a bicycle messenger in SF and the sounds of the trollies hitiing the turning buckles sounds just like when the ogres with chain saws lob a grenade at you. The exact same sound!!

It used to make me flinch.

It is a wonder I never got ran over.
-stray

[kromekat]

Lol @ Stray!

Yeah - games! - that's another story! - after a particulalry long bout of playing Duke Nukem 3D some years ago, I couldn't walk around the house without expecting some mutant pig to jump out from a doorway!:eek:

[flyingP]

Originally posted by kromekat

I couldn't walk around the house without expecting some mutant pig to jump out from a doorway

mutant pig, what mutant pig?

[kromekat]

argghhh!!!!! ;)

[flyingP]

hehehehe :beer:

[kromekat]

At least you dont have a shotgun!

[flyingP]

Hah! you've only seen the front of my pig so far.

[JamesMK]

Originally posted by kromekat
- - - after a particulalry long bout of playing Duke Nukem 3D some years ago - - -
Ack! I'd almost forgotten about that game. It was in fact the last game I ever touched. Haven't played anything since those days... Yeah, I'm a real hardcore gamer, 'aight!? :D

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