Tallpindo has been gifted with a digital camera and is able to present his unique viewpoint in photos. There are renders here that were made from machines and software he acquired since December 1994. The machines and software from before February 2004 has now gone to the hazzardous waste and recycling center. BIOTallpindo grew up in a small town and had friends in high school who were older and owned hot rods. He went away to college at a state university where he had friends who were into folk music. Upon graduation it was off to California as the best of the two coasts to fit his degree in Physics.
A Shell salesman with a Porsche introduced tallpindo to the L.A. topless scene in 1965. Other batchelors in Marketing at Douglas Aircraft knew a vocational arts teacher in San diego which led to encounters with nude dwarf waitresses in Tijuana and a tall dark nude in a very dark bar in Tecate on the way to fishing in San Felipe for Cinco de Mayo.
Looking for a sports car led to a meeting with an instructor at the then new Disney sponsored Valencia art School. The next door neibor had a Xerox word processor and was a professional resume writer. I met Arial. Pica and elite were passe.
In Florida I met some extremely beautiful women who were mathematical aides to the engineers at UTC-GPD.
Which brings us to a desktop of the tower type with a 19 inch monitor and Windows XP that is finally hooked to broadband cable in August of 2004. When my sister retired we traveled together each winter to Florida near Tampa and I had to buy the cheapest laptop with a video accelerator board and a 15 inch screen to take with me. It was hooked to cable and the yearly migrations began.
Last year I took the train to the harley-Davidson museum in Milwaukee and took factory tours and even got Bill Davidson to sign one of my renders. I entered my memory first car model as renders into the Troy Traffic jam at a local car show as a virtual car. I flew to Tailhook to get updated on Naval Aviation and showed my carrier renders to the daughter of R. G. Smith an inspiration to me as an artist in the 60's and 70's. I bought (a print of ) one of his works and it is framed and ready to hang here.
Some of the vendors have given me models to use and some have sold me things to use here. I am impressed with the progress in digital modelling and rendering shown here. The site truly runs well and the need to thin the herd to avoid thumbnails not displaying has long ago disappeared.
I'll share with you a secret that inverts atheism. I have no boss. No immediate supervisor. The closest I come is critics and touchers. Then I can let you in on my secret. I work on objects in midair. Perhaps it began with idle preteen curiosity about certain breast configurations that are amazing for their apparant solidity. In the community of those who might be interested in an Air Force career if it was only a 3 year enlistment the official look was the wavey stripes of a Tech Sargeant not the 4 year with rockers of a combat Staff Sargeant. Midairs are something not really talked about except for a shock encounter. Looking will lead to bumping and that could be painful for overly sensitive wrappings. Better to leave them unattended as impost. Getting involved in marquee forms where a tension wire holds in a major compression to achieve lift is not a midair. I think my first secret whisper of the community setup that leads to a midair was an Air West DC-9 and an El Toro Marine Corps F-4 "Phantom." So I don't mold and manipulate geometric solids nor do I extrude splines. Just put the point right there in the open space and put another one somewhere then select "link" and there is is a line. Make several million of them and you have a mega polygon object. A conscientious lady once realized the impending doom and yelled, "Hug, Me!!." There was no way to shift blame for the midair. She didn't have that firm dome of the turn on explorer. Later another lady knocked on my door perhaps to explain. "My car won't move." I looked out and saw a pale blue Japanese hardtop sitting halfway in and halfway out of my driveway. Definitely the subject needed to be made more polite. Then the local animal control warden came in her official truck and demanded I accompany her to the other end of the street because she "was afraid of the man's dog." My dog had just recently died from a bite by a snake thrown over the fence into his yard. I went anyway thinking that was what she got paid for. I wish I could explain better to folks who want table top mockups or on the floor. I don't even hang things on wires from above. Just project a hologram and with a bellows full of electrostatic powder--WHOOSH!! The print is done in 3D and full scale barring those unfortunate excess thicknesses due to charge concentrations at projections.
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Comments (15)
RodolfoCiminelli
Great work and effects of lighting too....!!!
Mondwin
Awesome artwork...bravo!V:DDD.Hugsxxx
tallpindo
I upgraded my system in 2000 from 256Mb to 512Mb. I've seen memory reports of up to 2.2Gb using swap on that system. That was a lot of noise from being on for weeks 24/7. It would drop to 1.4 or 1.5Gb on a clean boot on the same model setup. This image tool 1014Gb on a notebook with 1Gb of main SDRAMM. At that point the wait to move something or alter point of view is significant but it moves oK once it's going. The big smear of anything you try to do in IE or just going through folders while waiting for a render is liveable. What the world would like is to find my workstation with AUTOCAD drawings of inventions already to patent once the models are made. Something to sell at an estate sale and put up on eBay for auction. Isn't that wind shrill and chilling out there?
3DVim
Very impressive scene of a futuristic society! And thank you for sharing the render info. Excellent work! 5*****
indiefilm
Great image Dale! pretty sure you don't do requests, but I would love to see your rendition of the Norton Commando. Jay
msebonyluv
Well I got Carrara and I started trying it out but I need to do a cleanup of my drive. I only has 1.3 gb left on the drive and I wouldn't want it to get to 0. Awesome image hun!! like how your replicated the character in this lighting and scene!!
Thelby
Reminds me of the song, "Addicted to Love", this is very good. I like your lighting!!!! I am not sure about Vista yet. There are still to many apps that are only 32 bit, so I purchased my machines, plural form, with XP Pro X64. It is a 32/64 bit OS, the best of both world and I can max my PCs out at 16 GBs of PC2 6400 RAM. I currently have 4GBs each and I still have 89 hour renders GEEEZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!
Denys234
Excellent image!
tallpindo
This render took about 12 minutes with a 1.4Ghz Pentium M.
thecytron
Interesting composition!
MeredithWilson
Dear Dale, Ah yes - if money were no object the systems we could create!!! Actually, we got a few of those around the office but most of ours are more modest systems. The other 3D systems always amaze me with their ability to create multiple copies like this without actually "creating" them. To render in 12 minutesis pretty impressive!!!! Stunning picture - like a scene from some dark sci-fi epic!!! Very dramatic and very well done!!! Love ya!!! Meredith
coolcatcom
Chess anyone.................well done !
Richardphotos
I thought at first I was at MeredithWilson's gallery instead. she does renders like this. I bought Vista but waiting for microsoft to send the 64 bit version for $10.00 so it can utilize my 4 gigs of memory and duel processors
evinrude
Nice work! Ah yes, the RAM desire. If money were no object, I'd buy, like, a 20-gig server machine. Or a whole render farm.
jocko500
on the march here and they do look like they mean busissin too