Now that you have some extra space to spare around the screen - why not take advantage of it and improve the cinema experience on laptops – namely sound quality.

The idea is to put electrostatic speakers into the screen. Shouldn’t be too [...]]]> Here’s a not so novel idea for all laptop manufacturers that
seem to favor HD resolution over WUXGA.

Now that you have some extra space to spare around the screen -
why not take advantage of it and improve the cinema
experience on laptops – namely sound quality.

The idea is to put electrostatic speakers into the screen.
Shouldn’t be too much of a problem. It’s not like they are
too big.

This is a good source for revenue since all Hifi enthusiasts
and other Apple fanatics would sure buy them for a
premium price.

Fig 1. Sample HP NW9440 modified

The above laptop has used the black bars everyone hates to incorporate
electrostatic loudspeakers.

So there we go. Better sound for everyone.

Oh, and I wonder what will happen in the coming anamorphic war between cinema and consumers. You see anamorphic has a ratio of 2.40:1 or 2.35:1. Alot wider than 1.778:1. This will make for interesting laptops in the future. Or better speakers.

Imagine a 20 core cpu, nvidia tesla and a screen resolution of 1600 by 680. You could just about get the browser title on the screen, maybe even the location bar. Really useful device. So don’t steal this idea

Why Anarchy is fucking beautiful . period.

How else am I going to start this chellos, . Everyone knows that that anarchy is the system for personal responsilibity, ultimate sacrifice, and did I say it before, responsibility.

that’s about it. In a nutshell. scratch some DJ at the side.

So, where’re were wewre we,

too many typos, too hard to type after so maybe baby is sleeping , but ICE T is the KING after all, Elvis…   [...]]]>

Why Anarchy is
fucking
beautiful
.
period.

How else am I going to start this
chellos,
.
Everyone knows that that anarchy
is the system for personal
responsilibity,
ultimate sacrifice,
and did I say it before,
responsibility.

that’s about it. In a
nutshell.
scratch some DJ at the side.

So, where’re were wewre we,

too many typos, too hard to type after
so maybe baby is sleeping
,
but ICE T is the KING after all,
Elvis…   yes. And Johnny cash of couriers of messages from god.

Wait a minute, I had a thread going on somewhere.
Have to cut a fingernail… too hard to type with
the built-in pick…

Ok, we’re good…

Popped a cold one.

Where were we?

Yes, Anarchy, I was writing something “intelligent” about the
most
hated
and
loved
phenomenon
that is IF I must be comepletely thruthful about it,
the most honest system,
that NO serial killer
has ever understood. Never mind the bleeding innocent victims.

So, scratching intersticial aside,

Having a political, social, religious, and shoot me here
moral,
system,
where you actually decide for
YOUR
SELF
if you want yo hurt another person
OR NOT
instead of someone mother
fucking blue wanna-be patriotic
suit wearing bastard
telling you what to do
so, what do you do,
.
.
.
well, you do what every SINGLE
person
in the HISTORY
of
MANKIND
has done
.
.
.
you make the best of it. As often
as
you
can
.
Dot.
.

Thank you.

.

So, to the point, living in Finland,
or as we NATIVES say it,
Suomi, or “My Swamp” pretty-accurately-
translated.

We have a whole bunch of people just going
about their business aSS everyone else…
just because that’s how you do it.
BUT no, that’s not how you do it.
When I lived in TEXAS, yeah, that’s right,
the LONESTAR state,
I had the Rare opporunity to meet a real SHERIFF,
John Wayne Style MF, sixshooter hanging on
off a loose belt,
made from real leather,
for all y’all green Freaks.

We have alot to learn about the
wild wild
west.
that has lost so much.
so be it, but the fact of the matter is,
that ANY
LAW ENFORCER,
that uses his
COMMON SENSE,
and is connected to his COMMUNITY,
instead of a SCRIPTURE, written,
GOD,
knows how long ago,
is far better suited to HELPING the people
in his community, replace by jurisidiction, where
YOU
feel fit.

It is so simple, the person appointed to take care
of you
and your family,
should know YOU, and where you came from,
know your environment,
and most importantly,
KNOW YOU.

There we go, unless the state knows
who you are, and we’re not talking about a
SIN 318-505-05478
but who you really ARE,
then they are in no position to help you.

My old Neighbour Johnny, was constantly
HARASSSSSS….ED
because of this.
There was no sense of history there.
Only the letter of the law.

WTF, no let me spell that out for you,
what the fuck, I keep forgetting this is my
page,

too much indoctrination,

so, Anarchy is beautiful,

it does NOT, mean,
chaos, violence, murder, raping and whatever other
nice adjectives to get the point across,
that I can’t think of at the moment.

IT, does, however, mean the following,

Take responsibility for YOUR Actions.
Do whatever YOU want.

and all you
historically bloody,
christians out there,

If this sounds too close to the Satanic Bible,
which isn’t a bible but a loose copy of
looser copies of even older ideas,
too BAD.

BAD is just a word. Monkeys could write it,
my cat Minkey sure would.

This one is for you.

.
Dot
.

Ladies and gentlemen,

We have seen it before. And it happens again. A not so long ago, on a lot that Google now inhabits, there was small company that changed the world as we know it. That company was called SGI. That would be Silicon Graphics if you remember the

Indigo.

If you recall, SGI brought in a CEO, [...]]]>
Fig 1. An illustrative picture of something Kick-Ass.

Ladies and gentlemen,

We have seen it before. And it happens again.
A not so long ago, on a lot that Google now inhabits,
there was small company that changed the world
as
we
know
it.
That company was called SGI. That would be Silicon Graphics
if you remember the

Indigo.

If you recall, SGI brought in a CEO, can’t remember his name,
but he merrily walked over from Microsoft,
and happily plowed the company into the ground,
where it was picked apart,
piece by piece,
some ending up in
Crossbars,
some in,
Quadros,
and the remaining bits in
mine hunting fluid solvers,
that might have had something to do with
Navier and Stokes,
or maybe not.

So we walk into the present,
to the
less cable inclined world,
where almost inaudible chirps,
burn our ears at night,
at the threshold of the dreaming,

Here we see a small company,
gathered around the swamp of Nokia,
wondering what else might
be gleaming
in the slow burning cinders rising
up
into the air.

They too, were taken on a ride,
by a benign ambassador from the
far West, from a land called Microsoft.
He pushed Windows into worlds they,
and others depending upon them, did not want to see,
and eventually ground them into the ground.

Their starcharts exhibited similar signs,
yet they did not believe that time
is
after
all

cyclical.

The party disbanded and the travelers walked
into the darkness. If one looked
closely through the dark blue
foliage, mirage or not,
there was something illuminating
the way.

I was digging around some old documentation and decided to revisit it [...]]]> One of the things that I had to leave out of Last Chance was the canvas simulation. This was mainly achieved through embossing and/or displacing the rendered image – not exactly ideal. The displacement worked in certain parts so we will reuse that later.

I was digging around some old documentation and decided to revisit it for MOP. Additionally some new source material had to be painted last night to see the effects more clearly. I used some thick oil based crayons to draw some strokes on canvas to see the layering effect.

The layering of paint is neat in that it introduces depth into the canvas. This depth is indicative of the quality of a painting, how much space is revealed so to say.
But more of that later, in the philosophy section.

The first thing to address is the paint amount on the canvas. This goes from nothing, to little (small dots appear on the ridges) to fully covered. The first test was done using isosurfaces (metaballs), which gives really neat colorblending effects, but the setup was too clunky. Adjusting the shape of the metaballs also proved to be a little tricky. Flattening them out and using a volume shader seems promising.
The latest technique uses an rsl shader utilizing bombing to splat little dots on the canvas. By scaling the dots the gaps will be filled in.

The canvas I used has roughly 11 ridges per centimeter or 28 rpi. This would give a rendering resolution of roughly 2800*1575 pixels, assuming the canvas is 55 cm wide, viewed from a distance of 50 cm. Afterwards it will be scaled down to hd/hd720 res as needed.
This is partly the reason to go with a shader bases approach as evaluating so many points would otherwise take too much time. 3delights disc particle type would also work really well since it renders so fast but requires an extra step which isn’t needed here.

Will post some work in progress later today, in the meantime, here is one of the shader based buildingblocks – an IPS monitor

The color correction runs in real-time on video footage in HD resolution which is seriously nice. Timeline and EDL’s are all there [...]]]> Just tried out the new Piranha, from IFX. Very nice. Runs extremely well on older hardware in Linux. Been looking for a video editor with good color correction tools – there’s not many around.

The color correction runs in real-time on video footage in HD resolution which is seriously nice. Timeline and EDL’s are all there so integration into 3D packages should be a breeze. The plan is to shoot a bunch of stuff for MOP on DSLR so being able to do effects work in the “field” is very welcome. Getting decent rates on the WIFI around the house as well – so the fileserver can be used directly from the laptop even on the patio (pictured below).

Very happy!

Book Review – Gospel of Philip

This curiosity landed in my lap the other day. Originally an accepted gospel of Christianity, later rejected from the regular edition of the bible but still the basis for Valentinians or Koptics, which were in the news some time ago. It is part of a larger collection of texts that were found [...]]]>

Book Review – Gospel of Philip

This curiosity landed in my lap the other day. Originally an accepted gospel of Christianity, later rejected from the
regular edition of the bible but still the basis for Valentinians or Koptics, which were in the news some time ago.
It is part of a larger collection of texts that were found in Nag Hammar, Egypt in 1945, originally written around the same
time as the New Testament.

What I found interesting with the booklet was the straightforwardness of the description of rituals and states of mind
obtained by a Christian through said rituals. It is alot better as a historical reference to the Jesus myth than
the current bible, which really doesn’t contain any clues to what being a christian is supposed to be. It is more
of a sociological guidebook and a template for creating law abiding lemmings. Something it has and is succeeding with
still today.

The most striking admission in the text is the requirement for baptism in order to obtain the chance to become Christian. Baptism in this case is one of five sacraments. The text is also clear on the fact that baptism is performed with an ointment, not water. Water being the near universal symbol of the mind or subconsciousness. Performing a baptism through immersion into water would thus be the spiritual equivalent of dissolving into the “subconscious” mind.
How anyone in their right mind can claim that tapwater has this effect on humans is beyond me. THC, or Kaneh-bosm in hebrew, dissolved into olive oil is on the other hand a whole different experience, as explained in the book of Exodus.

Another interesting point the gospel makes is the distinction between a true christian and that of a fake. If the baptism is not
successful, the person will not become a christian. The experience itself shapes the individual through direct experience of christ-consciousness. If the experience of this “trip” is not understood by the aspirant, he/she will merely become a fake, someone who
uses the name without “permission”. Talking the talk without walking the walk.
The difference here being the experience driving the individuals actions, not the written word.

The second sacrament discussed is the eucharist, ingesting the blood/flesh of christ. This ritual is performed regularly after the initiation into the order.
Following the eucharist is the bridal chamber. The bridal chamber is
very close to the indian shiva/shakti union, which is the end goal for many traditions preceding judaism/christianity. Making the outer like the inner etc. etc.

At this point researchers seem to be very confused as to what the text means in regards to the sacraments, their number, meaning and function. It seems that they are trying to decipher their meaning from the actual text, which is impossible without taking into account the influences (history) and the active censorship that has taken place of the years.
There is also a great deal of confusion stemming from the simple fact that historians, not to mention believers, seem to be at loss to explain what christ-consciousness is. Understandable since very few organisms today walk on water. A very cool lizard comes to mind, but he has webbed feet and fast legs.
The main problem here seems to be a certain resistance in the mindset of researchers. A resistance to
acknolowedging a certain continuation of themes throughout history. Since we are talking about entheology, it would be foolish to isolate the research and understanding to just a limited number of texts. Since
all traditions describe the same goal, it would make sense to piece together things that are similar even if they don’t belong to the same tradition.

Overall the Gospel of Philip is actually a neat text. It clearly states that unless a person has experienced christ-consciousness, one cannot call oneself christian. It also shows that the rather
watered down commercial version of the faith actually had some real roots that were sadly forgotten.

Here’s a little tip for making 3D eyelashes. Nothing special but it solves some of the problems with using either a textured poly or indivual curves/geo strands.

The textured poly is nice but doesn’t hold up well in a closeup. The individual curves are annoying to rig. So what we would like is something that [...]]]> Good morning,

Here’s a little tip for making 3D eyelashes. Nothing special but it solves some of the problems with using either a textured poly or indivual curves/geo strands.

The textured poly is nice but doesn’t hold up well in a closeup. The individual curves are annoying to rig. So what we would like is something that is easy to setup, like the poly, but renders like the curves.

So, let’s fire up 3Delight, slap down a polygon, a texture and hit render. Shouldn’t be too hard.

A simple deformed grid.We will render this as a subD so it won’t be segmented. This will work nicely with an anisotropic shading model for the specular highlights.

Looking “good”. Notice how the polygon only gets displaced in one direction. Kindof like a half cylinder. Please disregard the messed up transparency map…

So let’s switch on double sided shading in the assignment panel and see what happens. This forces both sides of the polygon to be shaded, meaning the displacement will be evaluated on the backside as well. Handy for casting shadows from heavily displaced objects and such.

And there we go. Tubes from space. Enjoy.