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>> On September I was on a work trip at Germany. When flying back home I
>> smoothed the edges, so this is from September 2013. More should come
>> when I'll fly again, not before.
>
> Better and better. I like this concept of flight poving. Waiting
> impatiently for your next flight.
Sounds familiar :-)
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3C41ac7f6b%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3C41ac7f6b%40news.povray.org%3E
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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Spending time on a flight (eternal WIP)
Date: 10 Oct 2013 15:06:56
Message: <5256fad0@news.povray.org>
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Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
> Better and better. I like this concept of flight poving. Waiting
> impatiently for your next flight.
Heh, I don't :p. Nothing against flying itself, but all the hassle
around it and the airline's customer fuck up'ing is a pain in the ass.
And most of the airplanes used on short (in-european) flights are
horrous. A new Airbus A321 costs 107,3 million dollars and still it's
creaking and sqeaking all the time from somewhere and the seats are
probably desinged by Volkswagens economy-team.
> There will come a time when most of your flight time will be taken up by
> render time ;-)
That is certainly true, although I might get a faster laptop at some
point (and 3.7 or newer POV). It leads to the need to also ease up the
scene so I'll still be able to enchance the scene and trace the image in
the air.
> Thomas
-Aero
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Spending time on a flight (eternal WIP)
Date: 11 Oct 2013 03:22:01
Message: <5257a719@news.povray.org>
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On 10-10-2013 21:06, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>
>> Better and better. I like this concept of flight poving. Waiting
>> impatiently for your next flight.
>
> Heh, I don't :p. Nothing against flying itself, but all the hassle
> around it and the airline's customer fuck up'ing is a pain in the ass.
> And most of the airplanes used on short (in-european) flights are
> horrous. A new Airbus A321 costs 107,3 million dollars and still it's
> creaking and sqeaking all the time from somewhere and the seats are
> probably desinged by Volkswagens economy-team.
We should have listened to our ancestors: man is not made for flying ;-)
>
>> There will come a time when most of your flight time will be taken up by
>> render time ;-)
>
> That is certainly true, although I might get a faster laptop at some
> point (and 3.7 or newer POV). It leads to the need to also ease up the
> scene so I'll still be able to enchance the scene and trace the image in
> the air.
Yep, and a good thing too. As said, looking forward to that.
Thomas
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On 10-10-2013 17:48, scott wrote:
> Sounds familiar :-)
>
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Believe it or not, I remember that one.
Thomas
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> Believe it or not, I remember that one.
Wow, I thought it was pretty non-memorable. In fact I was shocked that
it was almost 10 years ago - time flies :-)
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Spending time on a flight (eternal WIP)
Date: 11 Oct 2013 07:13:40
Message: <5257dd64@news.povray.org>
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On 11-10-2013 9:44, scott wrote:
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>> Believe it or not, I remember that one.
>
> Wow, I thought it was pretty non-memorable. In fact I was shocked that
> it was almost 10 years ago - time flies :-)
>
If you had asked me point blank, I would not have remembered it, but the
combination image and altitude triggered the neurons ;-)
Thomas
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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Spending time on a flight (eternal WIP)
Date: 11 Oct 2013 10:15:44
Message: <52580810$1@news.povray.org>
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Hi(gh)!
On 08.10.2013 21:27, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> In July I visited Great Britain and when flying back home, I started
> tweaking around on the airplane. So this is something I'll continue
> tweaking when flying back home from pretty much anywhere, Ie. tired,
> exhausted and nothing else to do, while I simply don't easily catch any
> sleep at airplane.
>
> So, this is from July.
You know you have been raytracing for too long...
...when you buy a laptop just to raytrace while travelling!
Yes, if I was more of a globetrotter, the notion of always having a
(POWERFUL, i. e. multi-core with at least 16 GiB, of course running
under good old XP Professional (not nowadays' wannabe-smartphone OSs!),
if not under Linux) laptop with me feels tempting... just imagine me
venturing into the valleys of the Wakhan corridor, with one or two
donkeys carrying my terrain surveying, raytracing and solar power
equipment, and then doing live in-situ POVghanistan!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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> Yes, if I was more of a globetrotter, the notion of always having a
> (POWERFUL, i. e. multi-core with at least 16 GiB, of course running
> under good old XP Professional (not nowadays' wannabe-smartphone OSs!),
> if not under Linux) laptop with me feels tempting...
I used to be in my old job and never looked back since getting a new
job. There is nothing fun about carrying around a heavy laptop with a
power brick the size and weight of a real brick. Yes you can run POV or
play the latest games on it (and burn your legs in the process), but
whilst actually travelling (as in on a plane or train or whatever) I
found it far more fun/relaxing to look out the window or watch the guy
in the next row edit his power point.
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> You know you have been raytracing for too long...
>
> ...when you buy a laptop just to raytrace while travelling!
>
So I haven't been raytracing too long, possibly even not enough. When
travelling I'm carrying/using my lighter work-laptop. It's 2-3 years old
and small and light enough to carry in a backpack through the world. As
scott mentioned, carrying a almost-portable workstation is pain in the ass.
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
-Aero
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On 11/10/2013 3:48 PM, scott wrote:
>> Yes, if I was more of a globetrotter, the notion of always having a
>> (POWERFUL, i. e. multi-core with at least 16 GiB, of course running
>> under good old XP Professional (not nowadays' wannabe-smartphone OSs!),
>> if not under Linux) laptop with me feels tempting...
>
> I used to be in my old job and never looked back since getting a new
> job. There is nothing fun about carrying around a heavy laptop with a
> power brick the size and weight of a real brick. Yes you can run POV or
> play the latest games on it (and burn your legs in the process),
I am with you on that, 100%
> whilst actually travelling (as in on a plane or train or whatever) I
> found it far more fun/relaxing to look out the window
I read ebooks on a small tablet.
> or watch the guy
> in the next row edit his power point.
>
I don't know if I should feel sad for them because they are so
overworked. Or feel irritated because they are so important that they
have to work all the time.
I wish I knew who coined the phrase "death by Power Point".
--
Regards
Stephen
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