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Here is my blob ship (note, I started long before Jay Rayney posted his Aqua
Pod, so he wasn't my inspiration, it was H.E. Day himself who inspired me,
just like in Jay's case).
My ship is called the: Independant Reconnaissance and Investigation Drone,
with Intelligence Abilities, or IRIDIA. I am open to better naming
suggestions (using the acronym IRIDIA). I don't like the ending I've come up
with too much.
Anyway, this little drone has cost me several nights from (11PM-2:AM) and
all the free moments during the day after that. I just finished it this
afternoon. It is "dirty" from travelling through space, and can have an
optional force-field (which would keep it clean from space debris, but waste
too much power). It propells itself with the thrusters you can see as
yellow-orange bands. There are thrusters on the back and front of the rear
ring, and on the sides and underside. I think this provides all necessary
movement. It is unmanned, and serves for exploration of unknown environments
on newly discovered planets and satellites. The windows are for two cameras
that show the operators the world they are exploring. I might add another
camera to the front, but have not decided yet (it would probably subtract
some coolness).
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I like it. I'd like to see a larger image.
Alberto.
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Could double as a DeWalt router maybe. Sorry, I couldn't help thinking that
with a set of tools sitting right next to me.
The yellow oval at the near end seems to make it lose symmetry.
Bob
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| Here is my blob ship (note, I started long before Jay Rayney posted his Aqua
| Pod, so he wasn't my inspiration, it was H.E. Day himself who inspired me,
| just like in Jay's case).
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| My ship is called the: Independant Reconnaissance and Investigation Drone,
| with Intelligence Abilities, or IRIDIA. I am open to better naming
| suggestions (using the acronym IRIDIA). I don't like the ending I've come up
| with too much.
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| Anyway, this little drone has cost me several nights from (11PM-2:AM) and
| all the free moments during the day after that. I just finished it this
| afternoon. It is "dirty" from travelling through space, and can have an
| optional force-field (which would keep it clean from space debris, but waste
| too much power). It propells itself with the thrusters you can see as
| yellow-orange bands. There are thrusters on the back and front of the rear
| ring, and on the sides and underside. I think this provides all necessary
| movement. It is unmanned, and serves for exploration of unknown environments
| on newly discovered planets and satellites. The windows are for two cameras
| that show the operators the world they are exploring. I might add another
| camera to the front, but have not decided yet (it would probably subtract
| some coolness).
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>The yellow oval at the near end seems to make it lose symmetry.
You mean the thing on the tip? That's a light.
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I thought it might have been the far side propulsion bar just like the one
closest to the camera. A case of mistaken perception I would say. It looked to
me like that part of the ship was the same as the nearest part to the camera,
hence I was looking for a symmetry.
Bob
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Very cool,
H.E. Day's influence has been fruitful. I really like this. Actually I intended
my previous post to be a space ship, but ended up looking submarine-ish and
became an Aqua Pod. I'm particularly intrigued by good sci-fi models such as
this. Your texture maps are very effective. Looks great. Good name too.
Jay Raney
TonyB wrote:
> Here is my blob ship (note, I started long before Jay Rayney posted his Aqua
> Pod, so he wasn't my inspiration, it was H.E. Day himself who inspired me,
> just like in Jay's case).
>
> My ship is called the: Independant Reconnaissance and Investigation Drone,
> with Intelligence Abilities, or IRIDIA. I am open to better naming
> suggestions (using the acronym IRIDIA). I don't like the ending I've come up
> with too much.
>
> Anyway, this little drone has cost me several nights from (11PM-2:AM) and
> all the free moments during the day after that. I just finished it this
> afternoon. It is "dirty" from travelling through space, and can have an
> optional force-field (which would keep it clean from space debris, but waste
> too much power). It propells itself with the thrusters you can see as
> yellow-orange bands. There are thrusters on the back and front of the rear
> ring, and on the sides and underside. I think this provides all necessary
> movement. It is unmanned, and serves for exploration of unknown environments
> on newly discovered planets and satellites. The windows are for two cameras
> that show the operators the world they are exploring. I might add another
> camera to the front, but have not decided yet (it would probably subtract
> some coolness).
>
> [Image]
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I like the ring propeller shape in the back... How did you do it...?
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...?
I like the lettering in the corner for IRIDIA...
How do you pronounce that... Is it like Orida fries...?
The TonyB-2000 sounds like a cheesy r&b group like Back Street Boys or
N-Sync...
As for a good name to the acronym ...??...
How about IRIDIUM instead...( metallic chemical )
TonyB wrote:
> Here is my blob ship (note, I started long before Jay Rayney posted his Aqua
> Pod, so he wasn't my inspiration, it was H.E. Day himself who inspired me,
> just like in Jay's case).
>
> My ship is called the: Independant Reconnaissance and Investigation Drone,
> with Intelligence Abilities, or IRIDIA. I am open to better naming
> suggestions (using the acronym IRIDIA). I don't like the ending I've come up
> with too much.
>
> Anyway, this little drone has cost me several nights from (11PM-2:AM) and
> all the free moments during the day after that. I just finished it this
> afternoon. It is "dirty" from travelling through space, and can have an
> optional force-field (which would keep it clean from space debris, but waste
> too much power). It propells itself with the thrusters you can see as
> yellow-orange bands. There are thrusters on the back and front of the rear
> ring, and on the sides and underside. I think this provides all necessary
> movement. It is unmanned, and serves for exploration of unknown environments
> on newly discovered planets and satellites. The windows are for two cameras
> that show the operators the world they are exploring. I might add another
> camera to the front, but have not decided yet (it would probably subtract
> some coolness).
>
> [Image]
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>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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>Very cool, H.E. Day's influence has been fruitful. I really like this.
<big grin>
>Actually I intended
>my previous post to be a space ship, but ended up looking submarine-ish and
>became an Aqua Pod.
Mine almost became a gun. I friend of mine actually said it looked like a
flashlight. >:(
>I'm particularly intrigued by good sci-fi models such as
>this. Your texture maps are very effective. Looks great. Good name too.
I've been working on improving the dirtyness of it. I'm thinking of using
image_maps, because it's hard to get the desired look with just bozo.
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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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> Here is my blob ship (note, I started long before Jay Rayney posted his Aqua
> Pod, so he wasn't my inspiration, it was H.E. Day himself who inspired me,
> just like in Jay's case).
Ah, great, now I have groupies. *shakes head sadly*
> Anyway, this little drone has cost me several nights from (11PM-2:AM) and
> all the free moments during the day after that. I just finished it this
> afternoon. It is "dirty" from travelling through space, and can have an
> optional force-field (which would keep it clean from space debris, but waste
> too much power). It propells itself with the thrusters you can see as
> yellow-orange bands. There are thrusters on the back and front of the rear
> ring, and on the sides and underside. I think this provides all necessary
> movement. It is unmanned, and serves for exploration of unknown environments
> on newly discovered planets and satellites. The windows are for two cameras
> that show the operators the world they are exploring. I might add another
> camera to the front, but have not decided yet (it would probably subtract
> some coolness).
Ok, let's see. The media on the sides needs some work. The scale still doesn't
seem immediately apparent. Other than that, I suggest that you drop the cloud
background and add stars and some sort of a moon.
Good job!
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Ken wrote:
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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 :)
>
Has anybody read "Melancholy Elephants" (I believe it's by
Spider Robinson)?
Jerome
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>Ah, great, now I have groupies. *shakes head sadly*
I'm your biggest fan! <j/k> <j/k> <g> I think every POVer has had his
moment. I had it when I made the clouds with media (if for only a little
while). The problem with you is that you consistently repeat yourself and do
amazing things with blobs, and well, you keep your status high. I, on the
other hand, work on an irregular sine wave, every once in a while making
something useful and cool, then going back down to simple things (or at
least I feel it like that, what do you guys think?).
>Ok, let's see. The media on the sides needs some work. The scale still
doesn't
>seem immediately apparent.
Right now it's just emmision inside tubes of cylinders and spheres. I might
put more work into it.
>Other than that, I suggest that you drop the cloud
>background and add stars and some sort of a moon.
I was thinking of a Dagobah kinda planet to put it exploring on. Maybe even
a group of 'em.
>Good job!
Thank you, Master. <bows his head>
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Jerome wrote:
> Has anybody read "Melancholy Elephants" (I believe it's by
> Spider Robinson)?
I don't believe I have read that title but I have read Spider's work and
find him an interestingly strange individual.
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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. :(
Hmm, that's not very common.
I still think people subconsciously incorporate things they've seen, though.
Maybe some of it came from a movie or something.
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Ken wrote:
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> Jerome wrote:
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> > Has anybody read "Melancholy Elephants" (I believe it's by
> > Spider Robinson)?
>
> I don't believe I have read that title but I have read Spider's work and
> find him an interestingly strange individual.
>
Well, it's a short story in which he speaks of art and he
says precisely that it is not so much a process of creation,
but rather one of discovery, and that eventually, we will
have discovered evry book and film and music that can be
written, and then where will we be? Pretty interesting...
Jerome
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In article <38B55DE7.A6904EBB@iname.com>, Jerome <ber### [at] iname com>
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> Well, it's a short story in which he speaks of art and he
> says precisely that it is not so much a process of creation,
> but rather one of discovery, and that eventually, we will
> have discovered evry book and film and music that can be
> written, and then where will we be? Pretty interesting...
By then some of them will have been lost and we will have to rediscover
them....each generation might think they are coming up with original
ideas, even if they are really quite old.
We won't run out of things to discover or create. At least, not as long
as we keep creating things...
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Chris Huff wrote:
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> By then some of them will have been lost and we will have to rediscover
> them....each generation might think they are coming up with original
> ideas, even if they are really quite old.
> We won't run out of things to discover or create. At least, not as long
> as we keep creating things...
>
I hope so, the story is pretty depressing otherwise... But
what he says is that we're growing better and better at
preserving things, which means that less and less are lost
and left to rediscover :(
Jerome
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In article <38B64B0C.D255EE9C@iname.com>, Jerome <ber### [at] iname com>
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> I hope so, the story is pretty depressing otherwise... But
> what he says is that we're growing better and better at
> preserving things, which means that less and less are lost
> and left to rediscover :(
I don't know, I have plenty of fun looking through the "archives"(mostly
books and internet resources for me) and learning things which other
people have discovered. Just because something is known doesn't mean it
isn't worth learning...and there is an awful lot of information out
there, there is no way we could store it all.
If we do store a vast amount of information in one place(I mean several
times the size of our largest library), than a new kind of researcher
will have to appear, whose job is to search through and keep organized
this resource. Finding a specific thing in that mass of information
could be nearly as much work as discovering it again.(ok, so I
exaggerated a little. But this effect is already happening on a smaller
scale on the Internet.) AI's would be a big help too, but I don't think
they would be able to handle everything.(no offense intended, Ken. :-) )
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Chris Huff wrote:
> scale on the Internet.) AI's would be a big help too, but I don't think
> they would be able to handle everything.(no offense intended, Ken. :-) )
No offense taken. What you say is true. The information is out there but
finding it is the tricky part.
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