The Renderfarm

Gwenn

12:38 AM

Nine hells, nearly 1500 posts since I last checked in!

NoviceInDisguise

Same here o.O

Leave for a few hours and BAM! an entire library has been written :P

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn There is a reason why I have 10k posts

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

The mother of all green squiggles, the animated green squiggles

2

A: How to make moving strip?

You can use a curve to do this. in order to make it into a tube you need to set the fill to full and raise the bevel depth and resolution. You can then animate the start value to control the end of the strip. If you need to scale up or down the ends, select a point on you curve and use Alt-S. To ...

Perfect excuse...

Chebhou

@GiantCowFilms nice effects there

NoviceInDisguise

12:46 AM

XD

GiantCowFilms

That took ages to do

I need better gif editing software

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms What do you use?

GiantCowFilms

After effects to make a png sequence so I can wait 6 years for photoshop to load it just to wait another 6 years for photoshop to export it

It looks as if premiere pro might be able to do both whew, not that I've used it much (eek)

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms Ack, you use Photoshop?!

GiantCowFilms

What should I use

Gwenn

12:49 AM

I haven't touched that since I discovered GIMP.

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn I haven't touched gimp since I managed to get a copy of photoshop

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

I hated that program

I hate that program

NoviceInDisguise

It is unnecessarily hard to use

GiantCowFilms

I will hate that program

Gwenn

12:50 AM

Disclaimer Not that I have significant experience with Photoshop. I just don't use software that I have to pay for.

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise agreed

@Gwenn I need the combined suit alot

....and since my parents fitted the bill....

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms It's a matter of principle.

Chebhou

@GiantCowFilms try this one screentogif.codeplex.com not so fancy but good enough

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn I assume you use linux

Gwenn

Then again, I am a bit obsessive about frugality. Why work more when you can just streamline?

GiantCowFilms

12:53 AM

@Chebhou I use licecap for that which works, its adding the text and animations

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms Ubuntu.

GiantCowFilms

figured

@Gwenn Its quite nice, I have an Ubuntu server, on which Blend-Exchange resides, and an Ubuntu VM I use for looking at things that smell a bit like virus

(since I simply have to know what this domain is that is sending my server 600 spam requests to known weaknesses in popular setups)

Gwenn

Last year, I spent most of 5 months trekking/backpacking at about $5/day in expenses, almost entirely food. And that is not frugal enough!

GiantCowFilms

I can't relate at all

I like things nice, high quality, clean and to be better then everyone elses

...which of course, is never the case since my parents are pretty frugal about most things

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms Oh, sure, I have a love of nice things too. Durable nice things.

GiantCowFilms

12:59 AM

Durable works....

Gwenn

I did not say my gear was inexpensive.

GiantCowFilms

true

Gwenn

Aaaaanyway...

Um, I realized that I was being an idiot before (at least once).

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn huh?

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms You asked me to spend five minutes reading our conversation to tell you which of your jokes I liked, and I said that was "too much work" and then proceeded to give you over 2000 pages of reading.

/palmface

GiantCowFilms

1:05 AM

@Chebhou I downloaded that once, but wow it has more feature then I though, thanks for the suggestion

Gwenn

Sorry about that.

GiantCowFilms

Not at all

I'm pretty sure I did way worse

@Gwenn But I asked for it, you didn't

Gwenn

Though I do still highly recommend HPMOR.

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn could you spell that out "Harry Potter...." I've forgotten the rest of the title

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms I know, I was just acknowledging the fact that I was an idiot.

GiantCowFilms

1:06 AM

I need to see if our library has it

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn I don't think you're alone in that

Rats

not there

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms The book is entirely online: hpmor.com

GiantCowFilms

Just found it

Cool

Gwenn

I always advise this, but I'll say it anyway: if you decide to start reading it, make sure to stick through at least chapter 7.

As the author mentions, the book is widely considered to hit its stride around chapter 5

GiantCowFilms

1:08 AM

It appears as if they have it as audio

Which is awesome!

Gwenn

Huh?

GiantCowFilms

hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=56

:D

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms Okay...if you're into that sort of thing...

GiantCowFilms

Its much easier for me to concentrate and reflect on material if I listen to rather then read it

I also prefer it

Gwenn

All right then, I shouldn't diss it until I've tried it, I suppose.

GiantCowFilms

1:11 AM

Yah, same stuff just read

for some it may go slower but I've never been that fast of a reader

Gwenn

What kind of books/etc do you like?

GiantCowFilms

I liked hitchhikers and am looking into the Dirk Gently...? books I'm also have huge fan of nonfiction type thrillers, like this good one I'm reading now

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms The first one is "Dirk Gently and the Holistic Detective Agency" and the second one is "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" both by Douglas Adams.

GiantCowFilms

Right

missed that whatever it was

Gwenn

Good :D

GiantCowFilms

1:25 AM

There are alot of very quite people in here today

(and one very board one)

Gwenn

I'm not sure if all of them are active--you may have noticed that I leave my chat open 24 hours.

Just keeping people on their toes.

GiantCowFilms

I do to, however SE says the were all seen within the last 30 or so secounds

This ubnutu VM is slow

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms What are you doing in an Ubuntu VM?

GiantCowFilms

I had it open 'cause I was visiting a suspect site, so I decided to switch over just 'cause

This lag creates the illusion of my keys being alot harder to push and "gooshier" then in my windows machine

Gwenn

How much RAM are you giving it?

GiantCowFilms

1:30 AM

I think 8 gigs

NoviceInDisguise

I'm here, off and on.

My brother is home for Spring Break, so I am not online as much

GiantCowFilms

Ah

you have more then one, right

NoviceInDisguise

Sure

GiantCowFilms

So I alwasy wonder when you say "My Brother" which one you mean

NoviceInDisguise

One of them :)

Which may mean 1 of 2 or more

Or less

Or anything else really

Gwenn

1:33 AM

Half a brother?

NoviceInDisguise

No, thankfully

Gwenn

sqrt(-1) brothers?

NoviceInDisguise

BTW @GiantCowFilms , I don't talk much about myself now that you have shown stalking proficiency.

@Gwenn lol

That would be interesting

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn He imagines his siblings? I didn't know I've been conversing with a mad man!

NoviceInDisguise

Although that could work, as Imaginary brothers are quite feasible

GiantCowFilms

1:36 AM

@NoviceInDisguise much nicer too, I can imagine

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms I talk to myself all the time, I am extremely unsociable, I am OCD(ish), etc etc. I think I may be insane :)

I like it anyways

@GiantCowFilms I don't know, possibly

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise You seem fine here

@NoviceInDisguise well do you have anything left to hide :P

NoviceInDisguise

Yah, Internet personalities are known to not reflect the character of the user.

@GiantCowFilms Maybe

Maybe you are utterly wrong

Maybe not

Maybe anything else

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Meth lab in your mapel syrup shed?

Gwenn

@NoviceInDisguise *Udderly wrong

NoviceInDisguise

1:38 AM

XD

Good one

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn pun alert!

I can smell a recurring joke

NoviceInDisguise

BTW, I could theoretically make a drone to come visit you, just letting you know . . .

I know how

GiantCowFilms

really?

you have a drone!

cool!

sshh @X-27 might try to steal it

and you know what he'd do with it

NoviceInDisguise

I have experience with that sort of thing anywho

@GiantCowFilms I'll keep quite about it

Don't let him know where I am

GiantCowFilms

lol

NoviceInDisguise

1:41 AM

I am actually thinking of making a filming drone from scratch though, could be a good research project for over the summer

Quad-copter at least

GiantCowFilms

Pro-Tip: Making me type in a password every 2 seconds is NOT going to help with the security, its just going to make me use a shorter password.

NoviceInDisguise

Maybe six or eight rotors

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I've ALWAYS wanted to do that

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms IKR

GiantCowFilms

I even worked out the cost, and come up with a proposal to my parents

NoviceInDisguise

1:42 AM

@GiantCowFilms Me too :D Maybe I actually will be able to!

GiantCowFilms

repelete with slide shows and spread sheets

NoviceInDisguise

Wow! What did they think?

GiantCowFilms

They though my sister would be interested too

NoviceInDisguise

lol. What was the estimated cost?

GiantCowFilms

$1.8k

NoviceInDisguise

1:43 AM

Ah . . . You can buy a good one for that much now

GiantCowFilms

that is to lift my DSLR, lense and a gimble

@NoviceInDisguise Yah

but that was with nearly 2 kilo support weight

NoviceInDisguise

Biggish then

Gwenn

A good hang glider costs less than that.

Just saying.

NoviceInDisguise

Expensive stuff . . .

A Go-Pro Hero 4 is a good camera for aerial stuff though

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn I'm sure the medical bill from a crash in one of those would be way way way more then the $200 or so you could save

NoviceInDisguise

1:44 AM

Nice and light

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise X|

lense is too wide

I'd use a Black Magic Pocket Cinema camera

NoviceInDisguise

Depends what you are shooting

GiantCowFilms

it is small light, and shoots amazing video

NoviceInDisguise

What is the relative cost?

GiantCowFilms

and you can fit a fisheye onto it if you must

@NoviceInDisguise ?

NoviceInDisguise

1:45 AM

Also, is it waterproof?

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms Hang gliders are actually pretty safe. With the training required in the US anyway, they're safer than riding a bicycle.

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms GoPro vs Black Magic Pocket Cinema

GiantCowFilms

The BMPCC is closer to a canon 5d then it is to a gopro

@NoviceInDisguise Gopro is tough

Gwenn

If I remembered that stat properly.

GiantCowFilms

Pocket cinema camera shoots 13 stops of dynamic range

NoviceInDisguise

1:46 AM

Exactly, I need something tough. That would be worth a lot.

@GiantCowFilms Nice!

Gwenn

Wait, wait. I thought you said "from scratch".

NoviceInDisguise

@Gwenn Not the camera

GiantCowFilms

lol

NoviceInDisguise

Building a camera from scratch . . . Yikes! :|

GiantCowFilms

That would be hard

Gwenn

1:47 AM

Yah

NoviceInDisguise

Very, make your own lenses, solder your own circuits, etc. etc.

GiantCowFilms

I could image it being just a bit fustrating

NoviceInDisguise

Quite

Gwenn

Mine and smelt your own iron ore.

NoviceInDisguise

And the result would be crap anyways

GiantCowFilms

1:48 AM

@NoviceInDisguise manufacture your own silicon wafers

(eek)

NoviceInDisguise

Oh man . . .

Gwenn

Gods no!

NoviceInDisguise

It is like saying in order to make a cake from scratch you have to grow your own wheat, grind it, grow and concentrate your own sugar, etc etc.

GiantCowFilms

And after all that you forget it in the oven and it burns

NoviceInDisguise

Ever heard of a timer?

:D

1:50 AM

Oh wow . . .

pice of cake

piece

I just realized that if I can keep up this rate of messaging I'll have caught @Gwenn in a months time

NoviceInDisguise

Huh, keep going

Gwenn

1:51 AM

Huh?

NoviceInDisguise

I'm not ambitious that way

@Gwenn number of messages in chat

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn Number of chat messages

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms Beat you :D

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise jinxed you

:P

NoviceInDisguise

Jinx is a cat

A black one

GiantCowFilms

1:52 AM

@NoviceInDisguise Yah, I wonder if you can get a loud mouth badge for having the most messages in a gereral chat

NoviceInDisguise

He runs across the road every time I walk up the road

Gwenn

Wait...I have a lot of messages in chat? When did that happen?

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms That would be a good one XD

@Gwenn IDK

Gwenn

Well, I know when that happened, but I have very little recollection of it.

gandalf3

@Gwenn What is this, minecraft?

GiantCowFilms

1:53 AM

@Gwenn You don't even have 1% of messages

@gandalf3 you game?

I vaugely remember you saying you didn't

gandalf3

Not so much

NoviceInDisguise

Minecraft? Who plays that anyways?

Gwenn

@gandalf3 Iron comes from somewhere!

GiantCowFilms

Everysingle boy my age that I know (dumb pun)

NoviceInDisguise

I don't

Gwenn

1:54 AM

I used to play Minecraft, back in the day.

NoviceInDisguise

It is . . . maybe I should keep my opinions actually

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I don't either

LOL

lol

the pun?

1:54 AM

OK, I don't play much for games though anywyas

gandalf3

no

Gwenn

@GiantCowFilms I actually interpreted it the other way on first read.

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms I blend

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn XD

NoviceInDisguise

I play music mostly

Gwenn

1:55 AM

Instrument?

gandalf3

@NoviceInDisguise Cool

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn I do assure that every boy my age is single, or at least the ones I talk to

NoviceInDisguise

Piano, Pennywhistle, Guitar

Etc

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn no, he uses crude primitive tools

@NoviceInDisguise So you do like the guitar

but how about twitter

NoviceInDisguise

On good days

GiantCowFilms

1:56 AM

I think that the only thing missing is you being in newyork

NoviceInDisguise

nice

GiantCowFilms

so I guess you don't own that twitter, rats

NoviceInDisguise

possible

or not

:D

maybe

could be anywho

GiantCowFilms

Alot of things do add up though, but that one doesn't quite

@NoviceInDisguise anywho are you?

:P

Does anyone else here constantly hit the rate limiting?

Gwenn

?

NoviceInDisguise

1:59 AM

I did for a good long time

@Gwenn timeout on posting a message

GiantCowFilms

@Gwenn try typing lots of things really fast

If I keep talking

at some point SE will stop trusting me

and make me wait to post my message

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