 | | | stoopid request of the day | stoopid request of the day 2004-05-25 - By Cole Sones
Back
Are you using Outlook?
Hotmail wrote:
>Could this type of effect not be achieved by forcing a stiff, brittle cloth?
>
>Any idea how I can change my signature on this list, it calls me "Hotmail"
>and although good looking, I'd rather be known as Jamie!
>
>
>-- -- Original Message -- --
>From: "Robert Moodie" <robertm@(protected)>
>To: <XSI@(protected)>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:20 PM
>Subject: Re: stoopid request of the day
>
>
>
>
>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>---
>>>Unsubscribe? Mail Majordomo@(protected) with the following text in
>>>
>>>
>body:
>
>
>>>unsubscribe xsi
>>>
>>>
>>>---
>>>Unsubscribe? Mail Majordomo@(protected) with the following text in
>>>
>>>
>body:
>
>
>>>unsubscribe xsi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>---
>>Unsubscribe? Mail Majordomo@(protected) with the following text in body:
>>unsubscribe xsi
>>
>>
>>
>---
>Unsubscribe? Mail Majordomo@(protected) with the following text in body:
>unsubscribe xsi
>
>
--
Cole Sones
Lead Animator/CD
NOAA
206.526.4412
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859 (See http://ISO-8859.ora-code.com)-1">
<title></title>
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
Are you using Outlook?<br>
<br>
Hotmail wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="midBAY17-DAV85Snz8kxpy000177f6@(protected)">
<pre wrap="">Could this type of effect not be achieved by forcing a stiff,
brittle cloth?
Any idea how I can change my signature on this list, it calls me "Hotmail"
and although good looking, I'd rather be known as Jamie!
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Robert Moodie" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:robertm
@(protected)"><robertm@(protected)></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:XSI@(protected)"><XSI
@(protected)></a>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: stoopid request of the day
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">here's the tech. Now where's the bright spark who's gonna
knock this up...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation
/Areas/Fracture/fracture.html">http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/Areas
/Fracture/fracture.html</a>
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "adrian" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:adrian@(protected)"
><adrian@(protected)></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:XSI@(protected)"><XSI
@(protected)></a>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: RE: stoopid request of the day
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">walked that road already, shatter has SEVERE problems owing
to the fact
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">that
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">it relies on booleans, and the resulting 'chunks' are a
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">bit...well...chunky!
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">most of the time it fails though!
a
<<<<< adrian wyer - Head of 3D - MillTv >>>>>
<<<<<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http:/
/www.photonmap.com">www.photonmap.com</a>>>>>>>>>
-- --Original Message-- --
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)"
>owner-xsi@(protected)</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto
:owner-xsi@(protected)">mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)</a>]On Behalf
Of Per Edwards
Sent: 25 May 2004 17:17
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI
@(protected)</a>
Subject: Re: stoopid request of the day
There's a free script to do this called "XSI Shatter" you'll find it in
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">the
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">online tools area, under generators (modeling). Just apply
the shatter,
then you'll have to work out how ot animate the resulting parts. Of
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">course
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">you'll also have to hide/unhide at the appropriate moment
the bits as
needed.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">there was this geezer called Ptolemy, who had this 'mad'
notion that
</pre>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->the
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">spheres,
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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
</pre>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->invention,
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">we
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">can put a man on the moon (allegedly)
we can send robot probes to within 100m of mars, we can predict the
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">weather
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">(?) 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
</pre>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">job
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">too!
a
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">---
Unsubscribe? Mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Majordomo
@(protected)">Majordomo@(protected)</a> with the following text in
</pre>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->body:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">unsubscribe xsi
---
Unsubscribe? Mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Majordomo
@(protected)">Majordomo@(protected)</a> with the following text in
</pre>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->body:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">unsubscribe xsi
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">
---
Unsubscribe? Mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Majordomo
@(protected)">Majordomo@(protected)</a> with the following text in body:
unsubscribe xsi
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->---
Unsubscribe? Mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Majordomo
@(protected)">Majordomo@(protected)</a> with the following text in body:
unsubscribe xsi
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Cole Sones
Lead Animator/CD
NOAA
206.526.4412</pre>
</body>
</html>
|
|
|