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Yes, I see! But still I believe in using four point splines to mend meshes... Meking a four point spline and attaching it to a mesh you can get the splines going your way. Or am I wrong?

Why not use free WINK - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ - to do the tutorial? Using only text and it can become really small and easy to download! And easy to navigate...

.swf.html What type of file is this? Something got wrong? PS You can take the .html away and load the .swf-file - but a lot of loading and the bitmaps not good and the sound also bad... Hope you will fix it!

Yes, I have got rid of the crease. That cannot be baaaad! Or? Yes, I can understand what you mean - I have done a non-continous spline - but it fixes the crease - so what? Perhaps continous splines are better in some way?

How to fix creases you will learn from this tutorial - but it is not really a good way - it is a bit of cheating - so listen to KenH telling us only to use continous splines!!!! So I will not recommend this tutorial - but you are free to have a look at it. fixing_creases.zip

What is it about? A Desert Pool... a man sitting... cameras moving.... What is it about?

And here is a screen capture from the animation(see the post before this one):

And here is an animation done with the caricature to look and listen to: We_certainly_need_to_send_a_signal.mov

A new tutorial added: Caricature Modeling - the fast and easy way http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16948

Yes - really an instructive tutorial! Thanks! Really good to learn how to use the Show more than drivers alternative. And the channel alternative... I believe how to animate in A:M - there is really a big lack of information on!

Yes, I believe you are right! If you like to - you can do it yourself - resizing his eyes to the size you find the right one. You can find the model to download here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16948 It would be nice seeing you doing some rendering - still image or animation with the model.

Thanks taking your time answering! Yes, your website is really useful! In the Software tutorials Forum I have made a new tutorial using one of your caricature face meshes. Caricature Modeling, the fast and easy way. You can have a look if you like to it: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=50&t=16948 This one on your website: http://www.hash.com/users/alweb/tutu.htm Animate with AM...the easy way ... I would like to know more abou itt... I cannot really follow it... I would be glad if you could explain it a little more... or perhaps it is already explained on some topic? Because animating the easy way... that is what is needed... modeling a caricature fast and easy... it is just the start... to animate a Soap Opera... or something more valuable!

Thanks Mr Jaqe - I can do some skin coloring of the hands... Mr Nixie - I have googled on the Mando tutorial - did not find it - just dead links! A tutorial on caricature modeling - the fast way - is coming! Here is a link to Bush at 2dtv: http://www.2dtv.co.uk/movie/arnie_and_bush.htm This is Flash - fast animating, but... Why can we not do something like this in A:M? Sure, we can - but we have to learn to make caricatures first - and hopefully sharing them on some new MODELS EXCHANGE forum: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16847 But you also have to learn to imitate voices - more on that here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=117821 A Bush voice archive here: http://www.thebots.net/GWBushSampleArchive.htm

How to exchange the building models? Why not have a new MODELS EXCHANGE forum? Here is my suggestion - not only for buildings: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16847

Mr Nixie - thanks for you appreciating the caricature! Yes - concentric modeling - must be the normal way - but Alain Descrocher speaks about some Mando tutorial giving him so much better faces to animate. Perhaps it is the usual way... But Alain Descrocher is very good at modeling caricatures... expressive ones... Hoping on a tutorial from him... or I have to do something myself... Here is the caricature decaled... Comments?!.,

I think it is best to use metric coordinates - a world standard - not feet and inches. Perhaps jakerupert can insert some coordinates on his map - and suggest some different house types - and suggest some different official and commercial buildings? So it not will end up in everyone doing a villa!

Alain Desrochers has a tutorial section on his site: http://www.hash.com/users/alweb/tutcorner.html You can have a look at his latest facial mesh: http://www.hash.com/users/alweb/tutorial1/facemesh.htm And he is telling you: This is my version of a "concentric mask paradigm" mesh like the one illustrate in this classic : Mando face tutorial Also inspired from modeling infos find in Animation master handbook by Jeff Paries's ...and I grab some infos on the subject here and there on internet... At first view, nothing really new in this facial mesh ... but the approach is totally different than the other exposed on my other tutorials.Basically the mesh splines rotate around a closed circular mouth spline. This mesh give me good result on facial action because it copy well the natural muscle movement of a face(cheeks,front etc). His link to the Mando face tutorial is dead! http://www.3dark.com/hashfaqs/minituts/mandoface/index.html Someone knowing something about the Mando face tutorial - there to find it? What is caracteristique for face modeling according to the Mando modeling way? What is concentric modeling?

If someone wants to have a try modeling a caricature of Bush; Here is the Project file - with Model file and bitmaps: bush_caricature01.zip

Modeling a Caricature of Bush I have used one of Alain Desrochers caricatures from the Extra CD and remade it somewhat. What do you think? Any suggestions?

I had a try with the rig. Here is the result to look and listen to: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16875 And here just a screen capture:

Yes, stop them - before they stop you! Let us have a moratorium(thinking and feeling pause) on this new nano-technology!

Nanotechnology challenges society with fundamental ethical issues, according to Pat Mooney, "What is life and who is human? ...bio-nanotechnology raises questions around biodiversity and what constitutes living material that have to be addressed right now". The issue goes beyond nanotechnology to the convergence of a range of technologies. ETC writes "the US government refers to convergence as the integration of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science (NBIC) and envisions that the mastery of the nano-scale domain will ultimately amount to the mastery of all of nature. At the molecular level, in the NBIC worldview, there exists a "material unity" so that all matter--life and non-life--is indistinguishable and can be seamlessly integrated. The goal of NBIC is to 'improve human performance,' both physically and cognitively (e.g., on the battlefield, on the wheat field, on the job)" [/b]Nanotechnology is unusual in its scope; its interdisciplinary nature spans the physical, biological and engineering sciences and leaves no major research area untouched.[/b] Two years ago, the ETC Group, an Ottawa-based think tank that monitors technological developments, called for a moratorium on nanotechnology research. Their justification: research and commercialisation of nanotechnology is happening below the radar screen of regulatory agencies, limiting society's ability to assess risks and regulate dangerous uses. Let us try to stop it! Having a moratorium! Sitting down - meditating on it... Informing us... Voting on it! Or we can all learn it - sitting in our kitchens cooking some NanoSoup - building our own universes with our own Nano-LEGO-bits-and-pieces... Just a problem there is only one universe! Our universe... Perhaps it is not our universe... We have to share it... Or let us conquer the universe... Conquer ourselves?!.,

Certainly, nanotechnology offers many colorful possibilities for creative mass murder. For example, for some reason one of the most frequent flights of fancy is the programmable genocide germ that replicates freely and kills people who have certain DNA patterns. Such a weapon is possible, but it is dangerous to its creators, probably easy to defend against, and is of no use in attacking and overcoming a nanotechnic foe who doesn't depend on people to run his war machine anyway. It is easy to kill. What is hard is to kill with impunity when your enemy is well armed and numerous. War is a contest to suppress your enemy's capabilities before he can suppress yours. This doesn't leave much room for fancy swordplay or gothic revenge scenarios in serious combat. An actual nanotechnic war, if one ever occurs, is likely to be inhumanly fast and enormously destructive. Clever tactics and nifty gadgets are irrelevant if your enemy can simply blow you up. A coming war will be very short - just a few nano-seconds - not much to animate, but have a look and listening to it: squirty02.mov

* Developed new comprehensve model to predict transdermal transport through nanopores based on corneocyte shape * Used model to predict nanopore porosity or tortuosity in stratum corneum intracellular spaces * Determined that critical parameters of the model are the structural parameters of coreneocytes, diffusion path length, and the asymmetry between coreocytels and stratum corneum * Discovered that ultrasound induces localized transport regions (LTRs) containing nanopores * Molecular permeability is 80 times higher in LTRs compared to non-LTRs, which has profound implications for intervention agent delivery and non-invasive analyte detection systems * Determined electrical resistivity in LTRs (5000 fold less) compared to non-LTRs * Determined that trans-cellular transdermal transport pathways exist in LTR nanopores DNA it pulled sidewise inside the pore by a weak electrical field. . The concentration of surface adatoms C(r,t), is governed by the two dimensional diffusion equation shown below, where r and t are surface position and time, D is the adatom surface diffusion coefficient, and F is the incident ion beam flux. Nanopore Haplotyping Why are new methods for SNP detection and haplotyping desirable? Genotyping and a better understanding of human genetic variation will profoundly affect our understanding of disease, accelerate the rate at which new drugs are brought to market (pharmacogenetics) and improve patient care using existing pharmaceuticals (diagnostics and "personalized medicine"). While genotyping using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers, together with attempts to relate these markers to an observed phenotype or clinical response, have become the method of choice for performing disease association studies, several studies suggest that individual SNPs may have poor predictive power, either as pharmacogenic loci or as tools in human health research and care. On the other hand, haplotypes can correlate a specific phenotype with a specific gene in a small population sample even when individual SNPs cannot . Such results suggest that the phasing of multiple SNPs along a single chromosome -- the haplotype -- would better predict physiological response. The concentration of surface adatoms C(r,t), is governed by the two dimensional diffusion equation shown below, where r and t are surface position and time, D is the adatom surface diffusion coefficient, and F is the incident ion beam flux. Fractal Carbon Nanopore Network Activated carbon, porous materials not unlike the charcoal used for barbecuing, performs important industrial functions such as filtering air, removing toxic vapors, and purifying our food and beverages (e.g., sugar, molasses, vodka). For that reason, a far-flung collaboration of scientists (the Universities of Missouri and New Mexico, the CNRS lab in France, the Universidad de Alicante in Spain, the Air Force Research Lab, and Los Alamos) set out to learn more about the internal structure of the material. To their surprise they discovered a fractal network of uniform channels, what is perhaps the first documented pore fractal. Take simple olive pits, "char" them (burn them into charcoal), and then treat them in steam at 750 C. How ironic that in this case water, normally used to put out fire, here sustains combustion by providing oxygen to burn with surface carbon. What happens is not the removal of layer after layer or the carving of holes of various sizes but instead the local etching and collapse of pore walls to form channels of uniform size, about 2 nm wide. This oxidation process will then abruptly branch in a new direction. When it's all over the solid is riddled with a maze governed by a fractal geometry. Scattering x rays from the material establishes a "fractal dimension" of nearly 3, meaning that surface of the internal pore network practically fills all the inside space. The fractal nature of solid shapes has been measured many times, but this might be the first time a fractal mapping has been performed for the empty space inside a void, namely the nanopore network. The surface area of this great inland realm works out to about 1000 square meters (or one football field) per gram. The researchers expect that methane and other fuels could be stored in this kind of structure (the molecules are readily taken up into the branching alleyways by the weak attraction of induced electric dipole "van der Waals" forces), and at pressures much less than the 200 atm needed to store methane in steel cylinders. Gas separation can also be accomplished because the narrow channels are negotiated more easily by some molecular species than others. Electricity storage might be accomplished by building capacitors enhanced by intermediate layers of activated carbon networks filled with an ionic conducting fluid. Have a look and listen to the future being implemented now: squirty01.mov

Squirty Star Imitates Black Hole