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Posted on 31/08/21 07:10:59 AM
michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
David that "silly giggle" is wonderfully witty, and very clever! Great work!

Posted on 31/08/21 10:08:23 AM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
michael sinclair wrote:
David that "silly giggle" is wonderfully witty, and very clever! Great work!


Thanks Michael. It was a quickie, but I had such fun doing it!

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Posted on 31/08/21 10:13:17 AM
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David I thought that the Lego sea was a great idea until my MAC crashed four times trying to create it.


I don't know how you did it. But if you start with one brick and "double up", and "double up that again", and so on, to create an 'infinite' plane it becomes like the old classic problem of the grains of corn on the chessboard. You will end up with huge numbers that will quickly gobble up resources and bring your machine to its knees.

I know because I've been there!


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Posted on 31/08/21 11:09:43 AM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
DavidMac wrote:
GKB wrote:
David I thought that the Lego sea was a great idea until my MAC crashed four times trying to create it.


I don't know how you did it. But if you start with one brick and "double up", and "double up that again", and so on, to create an 'infinite' plane it becomes like the old classic problem of the grains of corn on the chessboard. You will end up with huge numbers that will quickly gobble up resources and bring your machine to its knees.

I know because I've been there!



In Cinema 4D I created a large cube then reduced the thickness. That was the basis of the ‘sea’. Then I created a small cylinder.

Then I used an extruded spline for the LEGO text which was sized to fit the top of the cylinder. The cylinder and text were then cloned as a matrix (30x30) to fit the cube. Cloning should have worked ok as it reduces the processing load. At this point the computer started to slow down but it was when I tried to copy, paste and move it to increase the size of my sea when the MAC fell over


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Posted on 31/08/21 2:10:01 PM
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Cloning should have worked ok as it reduces the processing load. At this point the computer started to slow down but it was when I tried to copy, paste and move it to increase the size of my sea when the MAC fell over


I don't know the 3D terminology but there's an awful lot of 'Objects' in that sea.

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Posted on 31/08/21 2:18:29 PM
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DavidMac wrote:
GKB wrote:
Cloning should have worked ok as it reduces the processing load. At this point the computer started to slow down but it was when I tried to copy, paste and move it to increase the size of my sea when the MAC fell over


I don't know the 3D terminology but there's an awful lot of 'Objects' in that sea.


Indeed there are but they are all clones of a single cylinder and extruded text. I don’t know why this slowed down the MAC to a crawl as clones shouldn’t do that. Perhaps it’s just the fact that I am playing with a seven or eight year-old MAC and it’s approaching time for a new one

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Posted on 31/08/21 3:07:31 PM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
Some very convincing entries this week !

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Posted on 31/08/21 3:09:38 PM
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Captain Kirk finally locates his log, stardate 31082002





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Posted on 31/08/21 3:09:54 PM
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GKB wrote:
Indeed there are but they are all clones of a single cylinder and extruded text. I don’t know why this slowed down the MAC to a crawl as clones shouldn’t do that. Perhaps it’s just the fact that I am playing with a seven or eight year-old MAC and it’s approaching time for a new one


Well yes. But your sea looks to be about 50x50 cylinders etc. That's in the region of two and half thousand clones. Quite a few!

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Posted on 31/08/21 3:12:48 PM
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josephine harvatt wrote:
Captain Kirk finally locates his log,....




I am so glad you are here to brighten up my day!

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Posted on 31/08/21 8:34:05 PM
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Josephine, that is just too funny. Love it.

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Posted on 31/08/21 8:52:18 PM
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David, that's great, a thesaurus no less...

Josephine, very clever! Made me think of that old gag... "Beam me aboard Scotty, there is no intelligent life here!"

Thanks for making the outboard version Michael, kept me from having to do it.


Posted on 01/09/21 07:27:16 AM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
I needed that laugh today, Josephine

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Posted on 01/09/21 7:54:40 PM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
I started out to make comments on everyone's entries but in the interest of brevity I'll just say some mighty fine work and entries, not to mention ingenuity and imaginative - great work all.
Again I had no idea where to take this and limited time, however i did want to animate:
http://vimeo.com/596083620

Posted on 01/09/21 10:22:15 PM
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I agree with Frank - lots of fun work from everyone.

…and a nice piece of animation from Frank.

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Posted on 02/09/21 04:03:53 AM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
Good animation Frank, and sound effects. One of the boat people could have waved, perhaps!

Posted on 02/09/21 04:09:18 AM
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Posted on 02/09/21 08:19:50 AM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
Mariner wrote:



I used to be one of them once!



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Posted on 02/09/21 10:23:32 AM
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DavidMac wrote:
I used to be one of them once!


Ah, David, I too was a hippy for a while back in the sixties. I was too poor then to be able to afford a camera, so no photos. I presume that the Jamaican girl is a girlfriend from your Bob Marley days.

Posted on 02/09/21 10:33:32 AM
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Re: Challenge 872: Float my boat
Thanks Gordon and Mariner.
Gordon, enjoyed your entry, cute and innovative, well done.
Mariner, very nice, pretty pic, - paddles look small
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