Hey, all -- Well, those of you who have been around for four years or so may recall that I'm kind of vertexophobic, but in addition to playing with the particle emitters today, I also tried my hand in the vertex modeler. This is what I came up with, using techniques that had been mentioned here, but until today, when I actually read the vertex modeler section of the manual, had no idea whatsoever how to accomplish. Not that tough, actually, now that I've played with it for a while.... - Dex

An excellent result! -Kix

If you're using 2.1 you should see the vertex modeler in C3! Ed

much power in the vertex modeler there is.... sometimes difficult to wield, but much power, yes.... That is a very cool.. uh, something-a-hedron. very nice work!

Thanks! We have C3 on the way here at work.... I'm very excited. And Yoda, uh, I mean Brainmuffin, it's a dodecahedron. Those of us who are of the right age will probably remember Cosmos with Carl Sagan's singular voice describing the Dooodekhaheedron. That man did more to excite the public about science than any other single person in recent memory.

Mr. Wizard was cool. Sagan was too much of a doomsayer with his nuclear winter rants. He was replaced by Al Gore, who rants about global warming now.

Cool model, one of these days I might venture into the Vertex modeler again. The Wizard was a practical scientist who proved scientific theories with real-world experiments that any kid could understand. Kind of what scientists are supposed to do (posit a theory & prove it). Sagan used slick multimedia to try & persuade people to agree with him, not necessarily with the facts. I've often thought that many of his shows should begin with a footnote, "based on theory & conjecture". None the less, Sagan was very influential with the public at large.

I'd have to agree -- Sagan did, indeed, have a political agenda. That said, though, his presentation and popularization of science and, through "Cosmos," the history of science, was invaluable in how many people of my generation it inspired to keep science in our hearts. Besides, I'd never remember what a dodecahedron was called if it hadn't been for Sagan.... I loved Mr. Wizard -- he was on when I was pretty young. There was also a science fiction movie show that had a guy in a study demonstrating some of the scientific concepts that came up in the SF movies. I remember one, in particular, where in the movie, a spaceship had to fly pretty close to the sun. The host of the movie demonstrated how light alone could burn something (a paper model of a spaceship he held really close to a photoflood). It stuck with me, too. I guess there needs to be more science programming on TV. - Dex