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Also sprach Tom Galvin <tom### [at] imp org> -- 15 Jul 2003 15:00:25 -0400:
>Dick Balaska <dik### [at] seeorganizationfield> wrote in
>news:otf8hv4tbnrdjlhflp9gu1o9541b9rim7q@4ax.com:
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>>
>> (Apologies for the slow web site, it's on a 64Kb sub-T1. Cable modems
>> finally arrived this month. I started shaking until i read Comcast's
>> TOS. --PASS-- Hopefully SBC/SNET will give us rich people who live
>> more than 2 miles from a CO some DSL soon; although my only hope was
>> that one of the important doctors who live near me would complain and
>> get us a DSL repeater nearby, but that hope was dashed because they
>> may be happy with Comcast.)
>
>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030703.html
Cool. His head pops up on PBS Kids a lot doing a 30 second promo about how
digital cable will revolutionize [insert discipline here]. I always wondered
who the heck he was.
These days, i'm trying to talk my wife into moving closer to town. (Within 1.5
miles of this funny shack, dear).
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Hey, since everyone is talking about their particle systems...
if you look in the background of my above animation, ttho-hoss, you can notice
the spheres coming out of the volcano and vectoring their own way around the
world with proper collision detection. Earlier in the movie, the camera is
riding the train (you can barely see his smoke down there) ploughing through the
"spew" that has accumulated on the ground. I got so frustrated with the extreme
parsing times that i wrote the mechanics in Tomcat/Java and taught my renderfarm
to recognize this
http://sean.buckosoft.com:8088/tteoac/tteoacServlet?scene=tteo&type=Volcano&frame=2415
as a needed file. I run the simulation once (couple hours), store the data in
MySQL, and pull out just a frame's worth of data, writing it as SDL.
The javadoc is here: http://www.buckosoft.com/java/javadoc/tteoac/
The interesting package, i think, is
com.buckosoft.povspew.util
which i thought about calling org.povray.povray because it is reimplementing
Pov-Math.
dik
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