Good to "see" you ThunderStone! Hope all is well with you.???

Ang25 just informed me of her passing. She also found out through FB via a Rosie post. Very sad to hear of this. My condolences go out to her friends and family.

Atpo, I’m not sure I understand your problem clearly but it seems you are asking how to get rid of grid lines from the texture map that UVMapper outputs.

When you open UVMapper texture map in Photoshop, while in Photoshop hit the “D” key to make the foreground color black and background color white.

Then, because the grid lines in the texture map are black, while in PS (Photoshop) in the menu, go to  “Select” and click “color range” adjust “Fuzziness” to get all the black color and click “OK”.

Now with all the black grid lines selected, hold down the Ctrl key and hit “J” key to automatically paste the black grid lines onto its own new layer.

Now, create a new layer between the background UVMapper texture layer and the new “grid layer” and fill this with the background white color. Now you have a white background color under the “grid layer”.

Create a new blank layer between the white background layer and the “grid layer”. On this new layer you can follow the outline of the grid to do your coloring and texturing. Then when finished, make the “grid layer” invisible by clicking the little eye icon to the left of the layer.

This leaves only your colored texture which you can save into BMP, PNG, JPG or any other format you wish to use on your model.

I’ve been away on a little vacation and haven’t received an ebot in regards to this thread and only came in to see what’s new in the forum.

I’m seeing the obvious in your last post, that we’re now desperately trying to turn this NSA issue into a political football and looking to tie this whole NSA affair around the neck of an opposing political party and the incumbent President in order to satisfy some politically motivated itch and agenda. I’m sorry that you feel the need to do that but I (being a registered Independent) need to bring the issue back into focus and say that the NSA issue didn’t start with the current administration, it has been evolving over the years.

I’m in no way saying that elected politicians haven’t tried to capitalize on the existing legal conditions under which the NSA thrives on but we need to remember that the “ghost court” FISC anointed the N.S.A. with those constitutionally questionable amendments. Need we be reminded that the majority of judges that constitutes FISC are republicans and that the first politician that tried to turn the NSA loose on international American phone calls without a warrant (2001) was President G. W. Bush, also a republican? Who, buy the way, went without condemnation. Furthermore, the FISA Act of 2008 was passed on July 9, 2008…Obama was elected November 4, 2008 and took office as President of the United States on January 20, 2009 least we forget.

It is interesting to note that Obama voted to expand the FISA Act in 2008 when he was still Senator. This only shows that Obama was for the expansion of the Act back in 2008 as much as he was for the expansion of the 2012 FISA Act also. If anything, he’s shown that he’s for NSA’s profusion and proliferation even more than the people who feel that their constitutionally given fourth amendment rights and privacy means nothing when it comes to the illusive “security” they may imagine they will bask in.

It behooves me to wonder why it was that Edward Snowden thought before he decided to release the NSA documents that Obama would be the newly elected President that would make it all alright. Perhaps he thought that once Obama became President and got the lowdown on the NSA and the unabashed, in-your-face domestic public snooping that was going on, that he would put an end to it, but that unfortunately was not to be the case…so much for a misguided optimism.

In fact in many circles it is often said that Obama has escalated the Bush-era policies. It is cited that;

1. The military-industrial complex is stronger than ever.

2. The police state is also stronger than ever.

3. Habeas Corpus has been tossed into the trash bin.

4. Obama is killing more people in drone strikes than Bush ever did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-shammas/obamas-second-term_b_3720893.html

And if you want to read more about the abuses;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/espionage-act

The thread focuses on the abuses that the NSA has brought upon our citizens and the FISC court which allows them to. And the fact remains that it’s the FISC and NSA which needs to be revamped by congress. Obama like Bush and all elected Presidents will come and go every one or two terms of office but the laws and amendments passed by FISC which allows the NSA to continue down the path of compromising our rights and privacy will continue to perpetuate down the long run. It is paramount that this scourge be halted inasmuch as is needed to keep the probing eye of an intrusive government out of the lives of its innocent citizens.

This has been a great little program and I wonder what other new features it has procured...if any.

Just a few updates concerning this post as far as the NSA and American rights are concerned and trivials from around the world that happen to be off-shoots of the same problem.

Earlier this week I read about how the FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software from CNET.;

“The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts.

FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI's legal position during these discussions is that the software's real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57596791-38/fbi-pressures-internet-providers-to-install-surveillance-software/

Then I hear from the Tor Project;

This is a critical security announcement.

  An attack that exploits a Firefox vulnerability in JavaScript [1]

  has been observed in the wild. Specifically, Windows users using the

  Tor Browser Bundle (which includes Firefox plus privacy patches [2])

  appear to have been targeted….

  Tor Browser Bundle users should ensure they're running a recent enough

  bundle version, and consider taking further security precautions as

  described below…”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57596791-38/fbi-pressures-internet-providers-to-install-surveillance-software/

The Tor anonymous system has been attacked and who are the culprits;

“Initial investigations traced the address to defense contractor SAIC, which provides a wide range of information technology and C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) support to the Department of Defense. The geolocation of the IP address corresponds to an SAIC facility in Arlington, Virginia.

Further analysis using a DNS record tool from Robotex found that the address was actually part of several blocks of IP addresses permanently assigned to the NSA. This immediately spooked the researchers. “

The NSA…those same people who can’t stand a free and opened Internet that government can’t tax and control (yet) and want to subjugate their people with, now becomes open target.

Under the scurrilous threat and guise of terrorism, child pornography or any other arguments from the government that the general public can’t stand, It gives them “reason” under the name of protecting “American rights” to follow through on falsified and aggrandized accusations.

Eric  Eoin Marques who owns his own server amongst all those servers that favored the Tor project but in the end of itself it garnered scrupulous sites is not what the Tor project is at all about. These are but stepping stones through a better garden. There will be some bad apples.

The Tor project continues to offer unrestricted open uncensored, communication among people, cultures and societies, internationally. It has learned the NSA infiltration as a javascript weakness in FireFox 17 and now continues from lessons learned. Please open your minds and seek answers to a deeper world.

Oh...mosquitos...nasty little buggers. Hay, AgentSmith made an appearance here. Damn, missed him. Wonder how he's doing in the business?

What the heck are mozzies?

I still have 5.5 on my desktop. To hide an object you first select it then click the "A" for attribute and select "Hidden" and click check mark at the bottom. This will hide the object from being rendered.

LOL...maybe you should offer her some Snuffy seal steaks.

Simply beautiful stuff there Rosie. It seems you have your work cut out for you. The second link seems to offer more advant-gard and modern work. Very eye catching. Go for it.

I see a still-life evolving here. Perhaps a table cloth and wooden furnisher in the background and some fine China pieces or pewter scattered about...you know like in those old Venitian or Victorian pictures and masters of old.

For referrences;

https://www.google.com/search?q=still-life+old+masters&client=firefox-a&hs=wX3&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=i8T_Uf7DIc-04AOxzIDgDg&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=712

No, haven't seen it yet Rosie. I will when I get a chance.

Oh yeah Chris no prob...sorry to have overlooked that. Yeah I'm reading the comments and I can't stop laughing at how some people view the whole thing. It sure is catchy tho on a big screen HDTV.

Hi Ang...nice to see you in these parts. The prince has a new album out already...funny! :lol: