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I don't think you can make much with the free reader but i notice my reader has "CreatePDF Online" under File. You might investigate that.

Here's a variation on the theme. The vases have specular color set to green. In combination with the red light they show a yellow-gold highlight instead of a pink one.

Still with the lagging cursor! You'd think that with stuff as fast as it is today the cursor should never be more than one video frame behind the position of the pen tip but it's still a lot more than that. That's a problem with every such device i've tried.

here's a quick idea for a lighting-only solution... A green light with a short reach and a red light with a longer reach are placed in the same spot. up close, red + green makes yellow but faraway, red only makes ...red! The vases are all white. It's not the same as the ad but it's an effect with a bit more spectrum variety to it than just red. Here's the same test with the vases color set to a slightly reddish grey. Makes a big diference.

Is this the one? MB4yqvTiHLM Yeah, I think that's mostly a case of choosing to make the models red. Carefully design around a reddish pallet. I recall a production designer for "Saving Private Ryan" said they were often asked how they got certain shots to look so green. Basically they designed the sets to have lots of green on them. A quick an dirty experiment with A:M might be to edit all the surface colors so everything is shades of grey and then light the scene with reddish lights. In the commercial they have a spectrum of yellows for lights to reds for darks, that would be a bit beyond a lighting color choice. Most of the elements in that commercial are hand drawn and painted so it's not a big deal to make them any color they want.

Surface says they have that problem solved and the reviews seem to agree. I've done that!

I've sent you an example solution.

That four point spline rule has been around for as long Martin has has been making splines. Welcome back to A:M!

I can imagine many different variations on "rectangular depression" Like this? RectangularDepression.mdl Edit:I see your example... If the four points are all on the same spline, they will not fill in.

Get her some sci-fi- gear and be sure to enter the sci-fi image contest!

I don't know much about 3D pdf. I couldn't find anything real clear on the web. If you just need to show someone a model in 3d there is the p3d.in site you could upload an OBJ to. The A:M OBJ exporter seems to include textures now. my Trex on p3D If you do find a convenient path to 3D pdf, let us know more.

I have also noticed it takes a long time for A:M reports to come up, although it does surface if I wait.

Are we actually on the new server now? Or is that still to happen? About a week ago i noticed that it was suddenly taking a lot longer to connect to the A:M forum than it used to.

Roger, are you still having display problems? Better or worse?

If, by chance, there should be some sort of tie leaving more than 10 entries vying to be counted in the top 10 I will hold a drawing with me as the official name-out-of-a-hat-puller-outer to resolve that.

Some weird-looking stretch frames from "Rabbit Transit" (1946)

In addition to the Hash gift certificates for the top three entries in the Sci-Fi image contest, the top ten entrants will be receiving the a DVD of Mark Largent's all-A:M-made "The Wobbling Dead," an animated puppet parody of the AMC series "The Walking Dead." Now you have no reason not to dust off that sci-fi entry you didn't quite get finished, polish it up and jump into the fray. Contest deadline July 6 Don't be a lazy zombie! If you wake up on July 7 and find out only 9 people entered you're going to kick yourself!

Ka-Voom!

hmmm... if the pen only works with new software that would be big problem. Here is a review of the Thinkpad Yoga that ha a wacom pen. 3.5 pounds, that's getting heavy again. Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga review: a good (if slightly heavy) Ultrabook for business users

I'm sure any mention or non-mention of Wacom technology was negotiated in the licensing before hand so i'd be surprised if anyone was surprised. The "penabled" tablets were always entry-level Wacom stuff. Positionand pressure but no tilt or rotation like the high-end Wacom products have. Probably not intruding on the serious-artist Wacom market. But I'm curious now to see how this N-trig thing performs. If it has a battery in it it must be a tiny one.

I wonder how there could NOT be parallax? There's got to be some thickness of glass between the display and the pen. No? If it really has no latency that will be better than my Cintiq or any I've tried.

Here's David Pogue's video review... Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse

Heu , Will... here' what I'm wondering... Can you now make a basic shape in A:M, take it to ZBrush and add a bunch of surface detail, then somehow export a map from Zbrush that can go back on the basic shape in A:M and act as a displacement map to make it look like the denser, more complicated shape you sculpted in ZBrush?

Mark, you're right! You've made two CG movies that people actually pay to see. That is way beyond hipster.

I'm looking forward to seeing it, although I'm going to hold off until I've seen the first season of The Walking Dead that you've said will be key.