Where in the World has the Forum Gremlin gone Now? Complaint Thread

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    he must be singing 'emotional rescue'

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 2015

    interesting info on animation and cameras http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/cameras/traditional_film_camera_techniqu.htm

    Examples of motion at different speeds are given in the table below.

      Miles per hour Feet per second Number of Frames to move 10 feet at 30 fps
    Casual stroll 2 2.9 102
    Average walk 3 4.4 68
    Brisk walk 4 5.9 51
    Average jog 6 8.8 34
    Average run 8 11.7 26
    All out sprint 12 17.6 17
    Car 30 44 7

     

    handy if moving in a straight line. 

    how fast can an aircraft carrier move before humans fall down on the deck?

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Centre of gravity around hips is roughly about a third body height, if the ground suddenly moved by as much it would be enough to make people fall down you would think :)

    ps why animate at 30fps when you can use 24 fps just as easy and save render time ?

    pps

    if the viewer notices the camera action too much then they won't really notice the animation

     

    don't know if that is good advice 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    iz getting so complicated don't wanna lose the fun part of it.

    brr brrr haz to brave the weather, it's dark out there. 

  • MistyMist said:

    iz getting so complicated don't wanna lose the fun part of it.

    ...

    +1

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Yesterday was warm and rainy.  Today is currently 35F and will only hit md-50s.

    Argh. indecision

  • nDelphinDelphi Posts: 1,862

    The gremlins are hanging out at Facebook.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    woot woot woot  nightshift hit the rotating sale.  Tribunal Hall is MINE, MINE, MINE  nemo!  laugh happyhappyjoyjoy  and rybolt mechanical.  laacoocarahcha tequila dance dunduhduduhdundun

    need to do some draft renders of camera trial&error studies.

    excel spreadsheets need getting done. >.<  


    wuhohs gale warnings. can never remember if knots are faster than mph or the opposite. 

    waahhh powerball jackpot 300 million  fanselfvigorously

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    I think Maudie's for a nice Tex-Mex lunch, then home.. I have pork crock pot chili cooking for lunch today.  Also need to hit the 7-11 for some beer for the game tonight, TP, and maybe some grapes.  I still have a TON of chips and dip so good to go! laugh

    Maybe work on another track as well.  Tomorrow is my final trip to the bank, then some general runnings-about.

    Bloody horrible wether - everyone stay safe! surprise

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    5 ALARM CHILI !

    thinkin about picking up a couple italian style meatballs from anthony's on the corner.

     

    tryin out my new ns stuff in rara laugh

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    MistyMist said:

    5 ALARM CHILI !

    thinkin about picking up a couple italian style meatballs from anthony's on the corner.

     

    tryin out my new ns stuff in rara laugh

    Cool sets! laugh

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,240
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    5 ALARM CHILI !

    thinkin about picking up a couple italian style meatballs from anthony's on the corner.

     

    tryin out my new ns stuff in rara laugh

    Cool sets! laugh

    What he said!

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    5 ALARM CHILI !

    thinkin about picking up a couple italian style meatballs from anthony's on the corner.

     

    tryin out my new ns stuff in rara laugh

    Cool sets! laugh

    What he said!

    Dana

     

    tee hee. double dipped.  scifi walls and barriers. look extra handy to decorate establishing shots.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    I think I will do most of the week composing dance music, for no reason...

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    phfshoo glad i didn't wait til i got home for the nightshift stuff.  sale is on to T already.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064
    edited December 2015

    Does artificial sweeteners contain rat poison?

    Or do rat poisons contain artificial sweeteners? Technically some rat poisons are artificial sweeteners, it depends on how you look at it... If the sweetener has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals, then from a rats perspective, it's sorta poisonous... Especially if you are one of those rats that doesn't know when to stop putting saccharine in their coffee or drinks case after case of Tab... They still make Tab, right?  What the hell was tab supposed to taste like? I always thought it was a carbonated version of that stuff you use to remove rust, scale and calcium deposits... But apparently it was a diet soda... I suppose you lost weight by never ever wanting soda again after drinking that stuff... ?  I don't think artificial sweeteners are supposed to deliberately have rat poison in them... It's probably not a good idea from a marketing standpoint... But I suppose if they all did, then as a manufacturer, you could write "Now with 15% less rat poison than the other leading brands!!" on the package, like that was making it healthy or something. Did someone give you rat poison for your coffe and when you questioned it they said "Naaa, don't worry... It's the same thing, Splenda and Rat Poison are made from the same stuff"... Because if they did, they are deceiving you... Have you signed any lengthy legal documents for them on the pretense that they just want d to see what it would look like if signed a document like that... If so, be careful... Or, if you are looking for a good alibi for poisoning someone else, I wouldn't use that one, it doesn't work anymore... If you have a rat problem and are willing to settle in for the long run, then you could probably just give them massive quantities of artificial sweeteners until they dropped dead... Or you could give the massive quantities of sugar and watch them become comically obese and eventually die from some sort of diabetic shock or heart failure. Sweaty fat little rats are sad after a while though, and you may just feel sorry for them and end up buying them little track suits and exercise equipment. I'd just hit them with a chair or stool... It's really a lot quicker.

     

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited December 2015

    Does artificial sweeteners contain rat poison?

    Google is your friend.  Snopes.com is your friend's friend.  Always check Snopes.com when curious about urban legends like this.

    http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/antpoison.asp

    FALSE:  In short: (quoted from the aboved linked article)

     "The author of the anti-aspartame screed reproduced above appears to have taken her information about aspartame's being "developed as an ant poison, and only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener" directly from a satirical August 2006 article titled "FDA Certifies Aspartame as Ant Poison," which states:

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has certified the popular sweetener aspartame, also known as NutraSweet, as an ant poison.

    "Aspartame was originally developed as an ant poison and it was only changed to being non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener," said FDA chief Ralph Roachman. "We are just notifying the public and industry about the original and best use of this stuff."

    The appearance of this article on a site called The Spoof!, along with its disclaimer that "The story as represented above is written as a satire or parody. It is fictitious," should provide most readers with sufficient clues for discerning that the article is, in fact, a spoof. Unfortunately, the mistaking of parody for factual information is representative of the dubious quality of much of the anti-aspartame information to be found on the Internet."
     

     

    Personally, my suspicion is that the anti-aspertame myths are spread by the sugar cartels.  Sugar being a not-so-innocent product itself!

     

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Bright sun spread on tower and treetop like honey glittering aagainst cloudless deep blue sky :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    iz getting so complicated don't wanna lose the fun part of it.

    ...

    +1

     

    doing it isn't half as complicated as talking about it :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    TroutFace said:

    I think I will do most of the week composing dance music, for no reason...

    doof ! :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    5 ALARM CHILI !

    thinkin about picking up a couple italian style meatballs from anthony's on the corner.

     

    tryin out my new ns stuff in rara laugh

    cool sets :)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,189
    edited December 2015
    TroutFace said:

    I think I will do most of the week composing dance music, for no reason...

     

    To play, click, then click again.

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Bright sun spread on tower and treetop like honey glittering aagainst cloudless deep blue sky :)

    Goooooooood Morningggggggggggggg!!!! laugh

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    Tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:

    I think I will do most of the week composing dance music, for no reason...

     

    To play, click, then click again.

    Dude, that's as old as I am.  I mean, my mOM was in love with Frank Sinatra.. geebus... indecisionindecision

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    Does artificial sweeteners contain rat poison?

    Google is your friend.  Snopes.com is your friend's friend.  Always check Snopes.com when curious about urban legends like this.

     

     

    Whaaaaat?... Are you saying I'm not a reliable source of information on subjects such as these?  I'm sure you know I have hundreds, if not dozens of highly trained chinchillas working at dozens if not ten computers, day and sometimes late evenings, researching millions if not ten or so subjects at a time, which they then relay to me in a series of high pitched grunts and squeaks, which I randomly interpret the meanings of and then convey these findings into randomly placed words that sometimes form sentences that may or may not actually make sense, which I then share with anyone stupid or bored enough to read my writtings.  My chinchilla researchers are among the finest chinchilla researchers in world, and when they are not dead from starvation due to the fact that I'm one of the most forgetful and terrible chinchilla caretakers in the world, they are busy constantly researching and pooping (God, chinchillas poop a lot)... All with one goal in mind... Escaping and killing me... And maybe some other stuff... They tend to talk a lot of crap, so it's hard to tell when they are just bragging or what they are really want to do... But in between dreaming about murdering me and dying of neglect, these amazing beast help me solve many of the greatest mysteries of the world... Probably... I don't really know since, One- I never actually read anything I write because it gives me a headache... And Two- I haven't been down in that section of the basement in months and it's starting to smell like rotting chinchillas and I really don't feel like dealing with that now... But all that aside I'm shocked my website did not make your list.

    Wait... I just remembered, I don't have a website... But if I did it should have been there... I suppose.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    Does artificial sweeteners contain rat poison?

    Google is your friend.  Snopes.com is your friend's friend.  Always check Snopes.com when curious about urban legends like this.

    http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/antpoison.asp

    FALSE:  In short: (quoted from the aboved linked article)

     "The author of the anti-aspartame screed reproduced above appears to have taken her information about aspartame's being "developed as an ant poison, and only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener" directly from a satirical August 2006 article titled "FDA Certifies Aspartame as Ant Poison," which states:

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has certified the popular sweetener aspartame, also known as NutraSweet, as an ant poison.

    "Aspartame was originally developed as an ant poison and it was only changed to being non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener," said FDA chief Ralph Roachman. "We are just notifying the public and industry about the original and best use of this stuff."

    The appearance of this article on a site called The Spoof!, along with its disclaimer that "The story as represented above is written as a satire or parody. It is fictitious," should provide most readers with sufficient clues for discerning that the article is, in fact, a spoof. Unfortunately, the mistaking of parody for factual information is representative of the dubious quality of much of the anti-aspartame information to be found on the Internet."
     

     

    Personally, my suspicion is that the anti-aspertame myths are spread by the sugar cartels.  Sugar being a not-so-innocent product itself!

     

     

    I was having difficulty viewing Snopes last night as it kept saying that I won something I did not enter and that I had to do some stupid survey that would make no sense to me to get what I supposedly won.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    TroutFace said:
    Tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:

    I think I will do most of the week composing dance music, for no reason...

     

    To play, click, then click again.

    Dude, that's as old as I am.  I mean, my mOM was in love with Frank Sinatra.. geebus... indecisionindecision

    He was a very good performer, you can see where all the stardust came from :)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited December 2015
    TroutFace said:
    Tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:

    I think I will do most of the week composing dance music, for no reason...

     

    To play, click, then click again.

    Dude, that's as old as I am.  I mean, my mOM was in love with Frank Sinatra.. geebus... indecisionindecision

    It's amazing how young people associate things "old" with "unuseful".  That's OK though.  If they live long enough they'll come 'round.  Meanwhile us ancient people just shake our heads and lament "youth is wasted on the young".

    I probably have shoes older than some of y'all.

    And there's a lot of things "new" that will never make it to "classic", and just wither on the vine like grapes in a desert.

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    McGyver said:

    Does artificial sweeteners contain rat poison?

    Google is your friend.  Snopes.com is your friend's friend.  Always check Snopes.com when curious about urban legends like this.

     

     

    Whaaaaat?... Are you saying I'm not a reliable source of information on subjects such as these?  I'm sure you know I have hundreds, if not dozens of highly trained chinchillas working at dozens if not ten computers, day and sometimes late evenings, researching millions if not ten or so subjects at a time, which they then relay to me in a series of high pitched grunts and squeaks, which I randomly interpret the meanings of and then convey these findings into randomly placed words that sometimes form sentences that may or may not actually make sense, which I then share with anyone stupid or bored enough to read my writtings.  My chinchilla researchers are among the finest chinchilla researchers in world, and when they are not dead from starvation due to the fact that I'm one of the most forgetful and terrible chinchilla caretakers in the world, they are busy constantly researching and pooping (God, chinchillas poop a lot)... All with one goal in mind... Escaping and killing me... And maybe some other stuff... They tend to talk a lot of crap, so it's hard to tell when they are just bragging or what they are really want to do... But in between dreaming about murdering me and dying of neglect, these amazing beast help me solve many of the greatest mysteries of the world... Probably... I don't really know since, One- I never actually read anything I write because it gives me a headache... And Two- I haven't been down in that section of the basement in months and it's starting to smell like rotting chinchillas and I really don't feel like dealing with that now... But all that aside I'm shocked my website did not make your list.

    Wait... I just remembered, I don't have a website... But if I did it should have been there... I suppose.

    awww they are so cute :)

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    I am planning on getting a new tower when I get my Tax return.  but every dream configuration I make up ends up more than my budget allows.  ugghhhh.

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