stoopid request of the day 2004-05-25 - By Robert Moodie
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here's the tech. Now where's the bright spark who's gonna knock this up...
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/Areas/Fracture/fracture.html
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "adrian" <adrian@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: RE: stoopid request of the day
> walked that road already, shatter has SEVERE problems owing to the fact
that
> it relies on booleans, and the resulting 'chunks' are a
bit...well...chunky!
>
> most of the time it fails though!
> a
>
> <<<<< adrian wyer - Head of 3D - MillTv >>>>>
> <<<<<www.photonmap.com>>>>>>>>
>
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf
> Of Per Edwards
> Sent: 25 May 2004 17:17
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: stoopid request of the day
>
>
> There's a free script to do this called "XSI Shatter" you'll find it in
the
> online tools area, under generators (modeling). Just apply the shatter,
> then you'll have to work out how ot animate the resulting parts. Of
course
> you'll also have to hide/unhide at the appropriate moment the bits as
> needed.
>
> > there was this geezer called Ptolemy, who had this 'mad' notion that the
> > solar system
> > was a concentric series of rotating crystal spheres, each one having a
> > planet 'trapped' half in and half outside
> > and thus went the motion of the planets.....
> >
> > now when some other arstraumerer saw a comet traveling BETWEEN the
> spheres,
> > he realized Ptolemy was a fool, and told him
> > in no uncertain terms, thus 'shattering' Ptolemy's 'crystal spheres'
> > (can you see where this is going....?)
> >
> > so 600 years later, at the very peak of human inteligence and invention,
> we
> > can put a man on the moon (allegedly)
> > we can send robot probes to within 100m of mars, we can predict the
> weather
> > (?) and locate ourselves to within a couple
> > of feet using GPS...... however.....
> >
> > we can't take a simple sphere in a 3d package and blow it up!
> >
> > did i miss something?
> >
> > please help, i am close to commiting client-icide
> >
> > HISTORY:
> >
> > double skinned sphere (ie it has 'thickness')
> > a comet has to crash thru this sphere
> > that is all
> > BTW if it's any consolation, tried this in Maya and it did a pizz poor
job
> > too!
> >
> > a
>
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