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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 14:46:35
Message: <4b29391b@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:21:29 -0500, Warp wrote:

> >> that's what the mascot does all of the time - yet he gets chastized
> >> from time to time ;-)
> > 
> >   He presents puzzles for people to think about?

> Sure, just many of them have to do with his personal life. ;-)

  Like this? "you sit down and your trousers are no longer able to contain
the mass of your thighs. o_O"

  Maybe I *don't* want to think about it...

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 14:51:31
Message: <4b293a43@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:46:35 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:21:29 -0500, Warp wrote:
> 
>> >> that's what the mascot does all of the time - yet he gets chastized
>> >> from time to time ;-)
>> > 
>> >   He presents puzzles for people to think about?
> 
>> Sure, just many of them have to do with his personal life. ;-)
> 
>   Like this? "you sit down and your trousers are no longer able to
>   contain
> the mass of your thighs. o_O"

Sure, why not?  It's not a difficult puzzle (need larger trousers).

>   Maybe I *don't* want to think about it...

That's your choice. ;-)

Jim


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:03:41
Message: <4b293d1d$1@news.povray.org>
>> After spending almost an hour watching this,
> 
> Eh... are you not supposed to be working?

Oh, uh, yeah, probably...

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:18:23
Message: <4b29408f@news.povray.org>
Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> right mouse button click (RMB) - selects
>> left mouse button click (LMB) - changes location of 3D cursor
> 
> And I think that there pretty much sums up why people think Blender's 
> interface sucks. :-)

Heard about that before.  No big deal, though.

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:29:17
Message: <4b29431d@news.povray.org>
>> So far I can't figure out how to even change the 3D view. :-|
> 
> Clearly it's impossible, then. <scnr>

I'd be surprised if that's the case. (Although it might be; maybe you 
have to change mode or something if you want other 3D views? It's 
plausible.)

Actually, it turns out you just have to use the middle... mouse... 
button... Oh dear.

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:30:02
Message: <4b29434a$1@news.povray.org>
>> right mouse button click (RMB) - selects
>> left mouse button click (LMB) - changes location of 3D cursor
> 
> And I think that there pretty much sums up why people think Blender's 
> interface sucks. :-)

What do you mean "people think"?

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:33:15
Message: <4b29440b$1@news.povray.org>
>> Well, now that I have VMware, I thought I might do that, just for a 
>> giggle.
> 
> Why would you need VMware to run Blender?

Because using VMware, I can install whatever I want without having to 
fill out a form recording what I installed, the date I installed it, the 
exact product version, and the reason for installing it.

Because it's only a VM, I'm not "really" installing Blender, so I don't 
have to record it.

>> Clearly I'm going to have to sit down and do a whole crapload of 
>> reading before I can start doing anything interesting with Blender.
> 
> http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/
> http://www.blender.org/education-help/video-tutorials/
> http://blenderunderground.com/video-tutorials/
> 
> The one with the mantis is also good, at least if you have sound.

I watched it, but without sound. I doubt I'd understand it even *with* 
sound. I need to first spend some time figuring out Blender's 
abstractions, basic UI conventions, workflow, etc. before I can even 
*think* about anything more complex than rendering an equilateral triangle.

> One thing you need to watch out for when going through Blender tutorials 
> is that they were mostly made with older versions of Blender. The 
> interface seems to change in peculiar ways even between minor version 
> bumps, so keyboard shortcuts and such are sometimes different from what 
> a tutorial claims.

Oh, that's nice. So, it's like living in a house where the architects 
constantly move stuff around? :-}

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:37:08
Message: <4b2944f4$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
>>> right mouse button click (RMB) - selects
>>> left mouse button click (LMB) - changes location of 3D cursor
>>
>> And I think that there pretty much sums up why people think Blender's 
>> interface sucks. :-)
> 
> What do you mean "people think"?

was any of it any helpful at all?  Or should I just put you on a 
killfile for insistent, unreasonable dumb behaviour?

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:38:27
Message: <4b294543$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:

> was any of it any helpful at all?

Ask me *after* I have Blender installed on this box...

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Geometric puzzle
Date: 16 Dec 2009 15:40:20
Message: <4b2945b4@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:29:26 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> So far I can't figure out how to even change the 3D view. :-|
>> 
>> Clearly it's impossible, then. <scnr>
> 
> I'd be surprised if that's the case. (Although it might be; maybe you
> have to change mode or something if you want other 3D views? It's
> plausible.)
> 
> Actually, it turns out you just have to use the middle... mouse...
> button... Oh dear.

I was just poking a little fun at you (which you've probably figured out 
anyways), because you have a penchant for saying "that's impossible" when 
it's just something you don't know about or how to do. ;-)

Jim


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