stoopid request of the day 2004-05-25 - By Hotmail
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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
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>
> -- -- 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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