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5:40 AM

@TARDISMaker this one immediately comes to mind:

The trouble with this is that you need light to "bend" in a continuous arc around the black hole. The reason why this bending is problematic is that cycles assumes light always travels in straight lines. Light does travel only in straight lines, but it can be bent by gravity. Gravity is a distor...

8 hours later…

David

2:00 PM

ok haven't seen that before. but at least we know windows is Running.

if you dive into it, that is supposed to be a "windows problem reporting" window. *sigh* This sounds like a never ending loop spiraling down a rabbit hole.

Duarte Farrajota Ramos

@David Is that Vista? I feel your pain

David

in other news: I got a gold

Duarte Farrajota Ramos

congrats

David

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos indeed. it has been the scorn of the render farm

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gandalf3

7:49 PM

@David I once got a "Windows problem reporter is not responding" dialog to pop up. My proudest achievement on windows.

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A: Render with a wider dynamic range in cycles to produce photorealistic looking images

Update as of October 5, 2016 There has been a huge amount of interest in the creative affordances colour management provides an imager. If you want to jump right in and know what you are doing, there is an updated filmic set of tools available in a new filmic Blender set. The new set offers: V...

Some of these "what are ways to model X" have a whole bunch of interesting answers which really show the variety of ways to do things in blender:

Q: How would I go about creating a spiralled dome?

Is there some elegant way I could go about creating the "twisted spiral" surfaced dome as you see in the iconic "St. Basil's Cathedral" in Red-Square in Moscow?

Q: Complex extrusion howto

I want to extrude a profile (either a mesh or a curve) along a "guide" curve such that: Its local Z axis is and remains parallel to the global Z axis at every point of the extrusion Its X axis must always intersect the center axis, parallel to the global Z axis The rotation of the profile match...

modeling curves

Q: What's the fastest and / or craziest way to model an arrow in Blender?

I'm curious about all the ways you can come up with a solution. I'm searching for the way with the least clicks and maybe the two runner ups. I made up some rules on how to count them: A default installation should be used. Changes in the UI don't count, so you can zoom or pan without adding s...

modeling workflow

Q: What is the fastest way to create a curved plane?

For a background, a lot of times I need a vertical wall, horizontal bottom, and a nice connecting curved surface between them in front of the camera. So far, I have used two methods: Deform a plane along the curve. This takes some time to get it right, as curve deformations are tricky, and it i...