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The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending (skeptics kill talks about wider views) -- Forwarded message -- From: The Weiler Psi Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:30 PM Subject: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending To: rmfor...@gm

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

Ed - Pov-Ray is pretty standard. What kinds of output does Sketch-Up provide? The format is obscured in binary but there is an SDK/API for reading the format. Ultimately it is polygons and materials properties of course. Pete Shirley (formerly Utah, now Nvidia) was working on GPU ray tracers.

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

Pov-Ray is pretty standard. What kinds of output does Sketch-Up provide? Pete Shirley (formerly Utah, now Nvidia) was working on GPU ray tracers. There is also an example of a WebGL fragment shader ray tracer in WebGL Beginners Guide. If you have Obj files, there are Obj to JS converters so you

Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday

I don't know what King Kong or apes had to do with it, but certainly it was a play on "Mosaic killer", with a nod to Godzilla. Mosaic being the first graphical internet browser that Marc Andreessen wrote whilst at NCSA Oh, I just checked wikipedia, and can see where apes came into it. The name God

Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday

I'll see you one Moz and rais it a Motiff running a on sparkstation over a ISDN line at I think 12-14 and listening by way of real audio (or some other format) a McNealy Report in which he proclaimed that the Web is the platform. A few weeks later being awed by a "port" of netscape on a FreeBSD s

Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:08:40PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote: > Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more > like 20! > > I remember at the 2nd international WWW conference in Chicago, > Netscape announcing themselves and using "Mozilla, the Killer App" > as their non-sequi

Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday

"Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more like 20!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig Still amazing they made it. mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2w

Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday

Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more like 20! I remember at the 2nd international WWW conference in Chicago, Netscape announcing themselves and using "Mozilla, the Killer App" as their non-sequitorial mascot. Since when is a dinosaur an ape? They jumbled King

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

As an alternative to Sketchup and ray tracing, is it possible that Blender would provide what you need, Steve? I've never used Blender myself, but I hear good things about it. Bruce FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

A bit off the track: Ruth some years ago wrote a Python module that can be imported into a VPython program to export scenes to Pov-Ray. She looks at the VPython scene and writes out a plain text file (or files) representing that scene in Pov-Ray scene description language. Then one can render the s

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

Bruce - What about Pov-Ray (povray.org )? Sounds promising... I'm familiar wtih POV-ray and should have looked for the option. It wasn't listed (I should look again!) on the Sketchup Plugin site because the method is an external converter (though Maxwell does the same, only

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

What about Pov-Ray (povray.org)? Bruce On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Folks - > > I finally bit the bullet that I've been rolling around in my mouth for > some time and tried to find a good ray tracing engine that coupled > (somehow) with SketchUp. The only one I have

Re: [FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France

Thanks Steve, Ed, Owen. I'll check the security options. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I travel to Italy quite a bit for fairly long stay, generally 6 weeks or > so. > > We mainly use iPads: mine is first generation, my wife's is the latest > with a cell SIM. Both hav

[FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

Folks - I finally bit the bullet that I've been rolling around in my mouth for some time and tried to find a good ray tracing engine that coupled (somehow) with SketchUp. The only one I have been able to get to work at all (there are dozens) is Maxwell. The main problems I have are: 1) It

Re: [FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France

I travel to Italy quite a bit for fairly long stay, generally 6 weeks or so. We mainly use iPads: mine is first generation, my wife's is the latest with a cell SIM. Both have never had problems with wifi where available. I have taken an older Mac Book Pro which had difficulty with the wireless s

Re: [FRIAM] 3d projection

I pre-ordered one last summer. I heard from them that I'll get one fairly soon. I did not take the time to write up a description of what we intended to do with it, so I think I fell down to the bottom of their list. --Barry On Apr 1, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > This is so very

Re: [FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France

I never had any problems with my Mac Air traveling all over France and northern Italy. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505