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01:37
@kimholder Choosing platforms and tools can be a gut-wrenching balancing act. I empathize, and hope the port goes as smoothly as possible!
 
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15:14
@Hohmannfan bad for you? because my guess is that imgur is fine with filling up ever more hard drives with images. maybe they can sell some visual data-mining or profiling service some day with their countless millions of images.
 
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20:36
well, things are back to normal. the Playcanvas engine seems to be having trouble interpreting shapes in the model i'm passing over to it right now, so i'm giving them all volume instead of cheating and trying to get cross-section cuts through cubes to display like boxes with walls that have thickness.
but of course the shape that really needs this is rather more complex than i can easily picture in my head in detail
so my afternoon has been all about trying to properly model that as a thin-walled solid.
whoa
What is that shape?
so i can then cut it in half without that confusing the render engine
it is the part of the dust roaster that skims the oxygen vapor off he emissions from the dust roaster
wait - it skims oxygen from the super-heated vapor that was accelerated to super-sonic by the laval nozzle....
at any rate - peter schubert, the lead author of the design, said it is a decent approximation of how it should be
and my communication with him about it trailed off in december because i decided to upgrade the website and have been doing only that ever since
so, i'm trying to fix it and pass it over to Playcanvas first, so i can ask for his review of the final version, like i was going to months ago
it makes me feel a little better when i can whine about these constant things that crop up and bring all apparent progress to a halt.
I have to spend some time on my studies now. You may have noticed.
not really - aside from school, it seemed to me that after that series of exams, you would want to take a rest.
that was all kind of intense.
This is not the age for rest
20:48
:]]
well, i have plenty to keep me busy. i have to figure PlayCanvas out, and that stuff is all in my area of the project.

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