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i was there this april, have fun! i hope to get sometime soon. how's is the humidity this summer?

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never seen a booze dispenser here. probably against the law. i have seen in japan though :) but i don't drink!

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Yes, I'm sure that would be so illegal in the US it would make your head spin.


when i first read it i thought you were talking about the vending machines, not the beverages :)

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I'm looking for screen captures of TDI Explore, Alias 1 and Wavefront. I'm curious about what the GUI for those programs looked like. Did the google search but couldn't find anything really useful.

Does anyone have screenhots of any of the above mentioned products or the software itself?


fwiw back in the days of X11/NeWS everything was really plain compared to today. i have TDI, alias and wavefront on tape (somewhere) i got with a single tower 210/GTX running irix 3.3 but without the license's is wouldn't come up.

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I became interested in SGI when i first saw toy story. this prompted me to seek out sites like "Buying an SGI System" http://cgi.amazing.com/internet/old-sgi-faq.html which prompted my first thirst for the 4D/20 or 4D/25; i subsequently obtained 3. :) after that things really got out of hand. the most i've had was around 30 including 4 predators, 3 crimsons, a single and a twin tower as the largest of my family. since then, i've cut down on most of the big beasts, only a couple of origins, and an onyx2 in addition to the SkyWriter, plus a bunch of desktops of various flavors.
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hamei wrote: Now that I think about it, there's a switch to make it start up at less than fullscreen size, I believe ?


the switch was for full screen vs windowed. i forget what the switch was.
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ajerimez wrote:
I was struck by how well this 12.5MHz R2000 system ran the demos. And how loud it was!


quite true. my first SGI was a 4d/20 @ 12.5mhz. it had entry graphics but was really fast (at the time) on non textured programs like AC3D and demos. then i got a 4d/25 with turbo! woohoo!

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I like Noein in the same vein, it deals with alternate dimensions and travelling between them, pretty cool stuff and it has a non-standard drawing style as well which makes it nice.


Noein is one of my favorites too. i bought the set while i was down at Disney world earlier this year. being a terribly rainy period (tropical storm came in) my daughter, aged 9 and I sat and watched the entire collection in a couple of sittings :)

Samurai 7 - is also a favorite (as well as the original B&W Shichinin no samurai).

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December 5th was the 75th anniversary of the end of alcohol prohibition in the US. whee! *hick* ugh...

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mail-order brides are your friend.

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nothing like that around here. there are even very few places that serve more than basic types of sushi, although they are very good at what they do serve.

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Interesting video, but ~5FPS is too quick for a bunch of stills.


the video rate was ok for me, the audio was tiresome after the first couple of minutes though...

thought i saw some places recognize from around Shinjuku.

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Yep, that multi-way intersection next to hachiko and the train station, with the huge white bands all over the road, are unmistakable.

that's the intersection at the top i believe.
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can't wait to go back!

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render optimization comes and goes, depending on the whims of (usually) Ton :) somethings may get tweaked at the expense of others, depending on real world work rather than the test.blend.

fwiw - although the renderer is multithreaded, not all parts, or indeed the most computationally expensive parts are parallelized.
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mapesdhs wrote: skywriter writes:
> render optimization comes and goes, depending on the whims of (usually) Ton :) somethings may get tweaked at the expense of
> others, depending on real world work rather than the test.blend.

Yeah but still, 30%?? Kinda huge drop IMO. Makes a nonsense of inter-version comparisons, which is why I'm sticking to 2.44 for
benchmarking. And remember this is just for a very simple scene; quite possible the speed loss would be much worse for a complex scene.


it's possible that there could have been an increase on an intel/pc architecture. it's been a long time since anyone cared about sgi/irix performance in the vast majority of the blender community.


> fwiw - although the renderer is multithreaded, not all parts, or indeed the most computationally expensive parts are parallelized.

I noticed. Personally I don't like the way the threaded stuff works at all. Sometimes it doesn't start using more than one thread
until after the first block has been completed, there's a major stutter when each thread completes which can be nasty if a whole bunch
finish at more or less the same time, and once the no. of remaining blocks is less than the no. of threads then the parallelism drops
off completely (very poor if the last coupla blocks happen to be complex). Ah well, better than nothing. :)

I know it's just a very simple test program by comparison, but I like the way C-ray does it. Parallelism is always maxed as much as it
can be since it's done by scanline.

Ian.


if you bashed your head against the blender development community you would find they haven't been interested so much as doing it right, but getting something at all done. the threading and distributed rendering is really, really, really, primitive.
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funny how often a sample of one can confirm suspicions.

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hamei wrote:
Perhaps that's what Washington was worried about in 1941 ... dumb move, Yamamoto. Dumb dumb dumb.



a little short sighted true, but given the prevailing nationalism of the times... unavoidable.

Quote:
"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."

Admiral Yamamoto, 1940


looks like he was on the right track anyway.

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that's weird. is the end frame set to 300? is the 66th frame corrupted? are the frames on a file share?
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After watching a bunch of other series, I'll still say it:

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Noein is one of my favorites too.
Samurai 7 - is also a favorite (as well as the original B&W Shichinin no samurai).

...and add that Naruto and Naruto Shippuuden are my longest running (literally) fav's.

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awesome video posted on gizmodo. it's of the Shinjuku cluster of skyscrapers.

http://vimeo.com/4014102

i see they finally finished that pineapple shaped building. that was pretty cool watching them build it.

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cage is such a crappy actor :(

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anyone know when 'ponyo on the cliff by the sea' comes out on dvd? english or japanese ok!

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i always just type the url in. isn't that what's it's for?

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hamei wrote:
I always wanted a small submarine ...

that doesn't sound like you hamei!

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tbcpp wrote: Well I finally got my hands on MipsPro and SGI was nice enough to donate keys to the Blender Foundation . Last night I got the compilers installed and working, now I can actually compile and debug on my Octane. Should make development a bit faster.


wow that's awesome... but how do they keep track of who has compiler tools? or did SGI just give them to you?
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nekonoko wrote: Pretty much my view as well - the whole "SGI's logo is awesome" ship sailed back in 1999.


this is a different voyage, it's the dirty little scupper "rackable's logo is cheap and thoughtless".

yes a scupper isn't a vessel but use your imaginations.
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post from pics so we can at least visit japan vicariously through you!

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he might like the rockabillies better!

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maxsleg wrote:
Shinjuku - I think somebody asked for a photo of the 'Cocoon'


thanks! i watched it going up last year from the top of the Myands tower.

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i also have the Apple aluminum BT keyboard. it's nice because it's quiet; i don't have to listen to my wife bang away at night. other than that i have no preference for keyboards anymore, it's best not to form attachments, in anything.
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zafunk wrote:
skywriter wrote:
anyone know when 'ponyo on the cliff by the sea' comes out on dvd? english or japanese ok!


Rumor has it that July 3rd, '09 is the release date for the Japanese DVD. It's supposed to have English subs too. Not sure about a BluRay release.


thx! was just wondering that again yesterday :)

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i second the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' sentiment. seen too many forums change their junk around and achieve nothing of value. skins are another non-value add.

however if it's become a drag maintaining it, then do as you need to do.

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If everyone else is happy with it I'll keep things as-is :)


and if you're happy, then i'm happy! ;)

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and they're really cute!

thank god it's not a bald flightless arctic water fowl!

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hamei wrote:
skywriter wrote:
thank god it's not a bald flightless arctic water fowl!

Shouldn't that be antarctic water foul, sky ?


yeah. i guess i've been using too much linux lately. everything has become unreal.

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Nice looking machine
Hey can i install linux
As if you'd want to

What happened to them
Linux makes my stomach turn
I'll buy something else

Oh no sgi!
What has happened to you guys?
Linux is just hype

Logo now makes sense
Servile, gutless, insipid
it sure can't get worse

but it did...
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squeen wrote:
I guess I'm "out-of-it" but what's quick reply?



a little box at the bottom of the screen where you can only enter text and no quoting. you don't have to go to a (complicated) composition screen to reply to a message.

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sybrfreq wrote:
squeen wrote:
I guess I'm "out-of-it" but what's quick reply?
It's a feature that lets you talk without thinking.


i was just going to add that to my message :)

"rapid spamming!"

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foetz wrote:
depends on the user :D


says the 3rd highest poster on Nekochan :)

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foetz wrote:
and one of the first.
honestly you would consider me a spammer? :mrgreen:


heavens no! some others yes, but not you ;)

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