Kids logic, you can't beat it.

Oh memories, the bulldozer was partially made out of terrains.

Sadly i don't know the artist by name

Quote - White Stork, Wonder if they sent a load of Sprite to trade with the aliens?

Knowing Japan it will be tasty :-9

I don't speak much Japanese, most of them are not that good with English, but later in the evening after some alcoholic beverages understanding one and another improves greatly.

More seriously now, i miss the Japanese "Koutonori" (White Stork) in the list of transports to the ISS. This is not some model or idea on the drawing table, in the comming week they will launch another one.

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/h2bf2/overview/htv_e.html

Oh as they say it themselves, why "white stork"?

During a month-long nickname campaign, we received 17,236 suggestions. Among them, "KOUNOTORI" was selected because a white stork carries an image of conveying an important thing (a baby, happiness, and other joyful things); therefore, it precisely expresses the mission to transport essential materials to the ISS.

The idea of using terrains for modelling came from having a book with illustrations from Masamune Shirow, in that he still used Bryce for some of his illustrations and he like to share that with his fans in how he made his illustrations.

It was then, it is now and it still will be in the future, 90% of the time you are watching/studying and 10% is used to make things :)

The shape of things to come! The technology is now still pretty expensive and complicated, but then think 20 years back in time, the internet was not even there and what you could do online required (some) specialist knowledge.

We already have a kind of 3d radar (wich for example is already being used by law enforcement to map out crime scenes far more accurately and faster than was done with the old fashioned tape-measure), combined with this technology we will see within a few years DIY kits.

Oh btw: This technology also works indoors.

Quote - bryce it? Impossible. way tooo compliated. 

hehe... i am not so sure about that.

Those people where ahead of their time.

Nice, one of these 300 km wide plasma tubes would vapourise my country in an instant.

Mmmh, still the best picture this year for me when it comes to Astronomy/Space is this one. It was made on october the 8th of this year.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=35093

Its why some pictures are more than just a photograph.

Quote - ok.. everyone.. your bryce masterpieces of a life time for 2014. you've got 4 years to render one!

That will be in the nick of time then if i start rendering now :P

A loss? His legacy will live on, just like the Mandlebrot, forever and ever, deeper, no matter how much we will zoom into it.

I would say thank you Benoit for guiding us to that wonderfull world that fractals are giving us, again and again.

PS, thanks for hiring mr. Musgrave.

We both go our ways, slowly but surely ^______^

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/gallery_icarus.php

Standing between David Hardy, Don Dixon and Rick Sternbach.

Run a decent virus-scanner, turn HTML off in your mail program and avoid webmail as much as possible.

As for save password usage, use keepass. http://keepass.info/
Its a very secure version to make very safe passwords.

Edit 2d pictures and apply a picture to your terrain. Start playing and fiddeling from there.

BTW: That is some jawdropping modelling, nice work.

Might as well hijack the thread a bit for another great piece of 3d CGI movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3gzPovT4Y

Oblivion island - Haruka and the magic mirror is a 3d CGI movie from Production IG and Fuji Television. A lot of the backgrounds are actually 2d instead of 3d, very clever :)