Install failure

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Cooke
Hi List, Trying to install Ver7 in new XP drive and an error comes up for a missing DLL. Error 1723. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Unable to register the DLL/OCX: LoadLibrary failed; code 14001 ... also the path \bin\r3d_extractor.dll This is on a fresh,

artificial evolution

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Heuymans
Stumbled upon this, about evolutionary simulated bodypart control http://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.html Reil was probably inspired by Karl Sims http://www.karlsims.com/ John Holland is also a pioneer in the field. Imagine something like this: Chrono

Re: artificial evolution

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Cooke
Virtual Stuntmen ... both stuntmen and animators are out of work. Amazing post thanks Mark. From: Mark Heuymans atha...@casema.nl To: Reallist user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Fri, 19 February, 2010 10:07:20 AM Subject: artificial evolution Stumbled upon

Re: artificial evolution

2010-02-18 Thread Jean-Sebastien Perron
Fascinating demonstration and it is also creepy. Need to know more about programming self-evolution. Animators do animation, anything else is not animation. Camera did not put the painters out of job. Stunt man will eventually be out of job and soon actors too. Jean-Sebastien Perron

Re: artificial evolution

2010-02-18 Thread Jouni Hätinen
Stunt man will eventually be out of job and soon actors too. The demonstration looks cool, but fortunately movies didn't kill theater and neither did TV kill radio, so I don't think actors or stunt men will be replaced by CGI either. But this demonstration should be interesting to game

Re: artificial evolution

2010-02-18 Thread fre...@gmail.com
I think this is what they used in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed? Under the name Euphoria? If that is so, it is already out there. / F 2010/2/18 Jouni Hätinen jouni.hati...@iki.fi: Stunt man will eventually be out of job and soon actors too. The demonstration looks cool, but fortunately

Re: artificial evolution

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Cooke
Trickle-down 0r the law of diminishing returns just like most proprietory apps. The first to use it will pay through the nose but eventually it will be a plugin for any app and on special for $5.00 down at the local store. It will be the entire nervous system as controllers of rigs. Might

Re: Scanline8 error

2010-02-18 Thread George Jenner
ATI drivers? I've just backgraded to an old version of Mint (whatever the Ubuntu LTS release is) and an old ATI driver. I'm running again. I think if your card is more than a few hours old the newer releases won't work. ATI consider them legacy cards. Which driver works probably depends on