The back ring seems oddly out of place, it's a large abuttment on an otherwise
streamlined shape. The texturing is excellent.

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You made it look cylindrical w/ the sphere loop or w/ the negative
components...

I like the sound of the name where did it come from... You and your gray
matter?

Borg don't spell in english i don't think... I will have to look next time my
mom watches star trek...

I guess that means IRIDIUM would not be copy write infringement...?

TonyB wrote:

> >I like the ring propeller shape in the back... How did you do it...?
>
> I put some spheres in a #while loop, making them rotate A degrees each time,
> and varying their radius depending on the height, bigger at 0 and smaller in
> either y direction. I say several spheres, because first you have the main
> shape, and then the grooves that you need to make. The groves would be made
> with negative strengths on smaller spheres, of course.
>
> >I also started in on the blobing madness... My piece is starting to look
> like a
> >mars rover but since i only have the chaise who knows...?
>
> Good luck. I'm sure you'll come up with something good.
>
> >I like the lettering in the corner for IRIDIA...
>
> Beatbox.
>
> >How do you pronounce that... Is it like Orida fries...?
>
> ih-rih-dee-uh
>
> >The TonyB-2000 sounds like a cheesy r&b group like Back Street Boys or
> >N-Sync...
>
> Uh-oh. BTW, did you notice the font? I've never seen to movies or series, so
> I don't know if it's the actual thing, but it's called Borg9. (They use red,
> right?)
>
> >As for a good name to the acronym ...??...
> >How about IRIDIUM instead...( metallic chemical )
>
> I didn't want a good acronym, I wanted better meaning for the letters that
> compose it. Besides, IRIDIUM has been used before (remember the satellite
> "cell" phones that were like $5 a minute, but you could call all over the
> Globe, and they went bankrupt?).

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BTW could you send me a copy of those fonts... ttf.(s) right...?
I only have the standard two... cyrvatic and crystal... )=

TonyB wrote:

> >I like the ring propeller shape in the back... How did you do it...?
>
> I put some spheres in a #while loop, making them rotate A degrees each time,
> and varying their radius depending on the height, bigger at 0 and smaller in
> either y direction. I say several spheres, because first you have the main
> shape, and then the grooves that you need to make. The groves would be made
> with negative strengths on smaller spheres, of course.
>
> >I also started in on the blobing madness... My piece is starting to look
> like a
> >mars rover but since i only have the chaise who knows...?
>
> Good luck. I'm sure you'll come up with something good.
>
> >I like the lettering in the corner for IRIDIA...
>
> Beatbox.
>
> >How do you pronounce that... Is it like Orida fries...?
>
> ih-rih-dee-uh
>
> >The TonyB-2000 sounds like a cheesy r&b group like Back Street Boys or
> >N-Sync...
>
> Uh-oh. BTW, did you notice the font? I've never seen to movies or series, so
> I don't know if it's the actual thing, but it's called Borg9. (They use red,
> right?)
>
> >As for a good name to the acronym ...??...
> >How about IRIDIUM instead...( metallic chemical )
>
> I didn't want a good acronym, I wanted better meaning for the letters that
> compose it. Besides, IRIDIUM has been used before (remember the satellite
> "cell" phones that were like $5 a minute, but you could call all over the
> Globe, and they went bankrupt?).

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Nice work Tony.  Both the name and the colour scheme
remind me of the packaging that batteries come in, 
Duracel.  Didn't they call their battery testing 
packaging something like Iridia.  

Because of this I'd make sure you have a copyright
notice on there before you put it on a web page, I
wouldn't put it past some bastard to pinch it and
use it to sell batteries, (marketing people are 
slime). 

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>You made it look cylindrical w/ the sphere loop or w/ the negative
>components...

Simplified...

#declare A = 0;
#while (A<360)
 sphere {y*R1,R2,S rotate z*A}
 #declare A = A + 1;
#end

>I like the sound of the name where did it come from... You and your gray
>matter?

Take mom's name: Ilidia. Make a Japanese person pronounce it: Iridia. Make
up meaning for acronym. Done.

>Borg don't spell in english i don't think... I will have to look next time
my
>mom watches star trek...

I'm not a borg, I just used a font called Borg9. I have no idea what it
really looks like. I'm not a Trekker.

>I guess that means IRIDIUM would not be copy write infringement...?


Not if they're dead... :)

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>The back ring seems oddly out of place, it's a large abuttment on an
otherwise
>streamlined shape.

I actually started the ship from the ring. I think it's going to stay.
Besides, this thing doesn't need to go very fast.

>The texturing is excellent.

Ooops... I've been messing around with it... You should have replied
sooner...

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>Nice work Tony.  Both the name and the colour scheme
>remind me of the packaging that batteries come in,
>Duracel.  Didn't they call their battery testing
>packaging something like Iridia.

I knew it! I have the tendency of coming up with original ideas that are
identical to previously existing things. Happened the time I wrote a story,
and shortly afterwards found out that Doom has *exactly* the same story,
almost word for word (mind you, I had never seen or heard of Doom until
after I wrote it!).

>Because of this I'd make sure you have a copyright
>notice on there before you put it on a web page, I
>wouldn't put it past some bastard to pinch it and
>use it to sell batteries, (marketing people are
>slime).

Eep! I hope they don't do that. :/

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TonyB wrote:

> I knew it! I have the tendency of coming up with original ideas that are
> identical to previously existing things. Happened the time I wrote a story,
> and shortly afterwards found out that Doom has *exactly* the same story,
> almost word for word (mind you, I had never seen or heard of Doom until
> after I wrote it!).

(no offense to you) This happens a lot, including to me, and what I think it is
is that you're not really inspired or putting any effort into it and spew out
some crap based on all the cliches you grew up with. This is the kind of stuff
I wrote for middle-school English.
Doom. Sheesh. :-)
I still spew out uninspired cliches, but now it's more like, "Richard cannot
understand why society has oppressed his ideals of justice and equality that we
take for granted in the 90s." :-{

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>(no offense to you) This happens a lot, including to me, and what I think
it is
>is that you're not really inspired or putting any effort into it and spew
out
>some crap based on all the cliches you grew up with.

I put a lot of effort and inspiration into my story. No cliches whatsoever.
I didn't write it for school either. I wrote it for myself. I just came
together with all these ideas of mine, reinterpreted some futuristic ones
and thought and researched, and wrote. Then, while researching one day, I
find the story for Doom, and the friggin' thing was practically identical to
mine, to my grave dissapointment and dismay. :(

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TonyB wrote:
 
> I put a lot of effort and inspiration into my story. No cliches whatsoever.
> I didn't write it for school either. I wrote it for myself. I just came
> together with all these ideas of mine, reinterpreted some futuristic ones
> and thought and researched, and wrote. Then, while researching one day, I
> find the story for Doom, and the friggin' thing was practically identical to
> mine, to my grave dissapointment and dismay. :(

It has been noted that the likelihood of a person having an original thought
is now almost impossible. Your story illustrates that point well. At the age
of 8 I composed my first melody on the piano. It was I thought a reasonably
complicated little ditty and I was very proud of it. Several years later I
heard my tune almost note for note being played on a classical music radio
station. The author of this obscure little melody - Mozart ! Go figure :)

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