Starting in March 2020, I began a large stream project to model a comprehensive, highly-detailed Caterpillar 434E backhoe. Please watch the first stream (first 3 minutes of abridged version at least) for an overview.
It's a straight-forward project of building a complex model over an extended period of time. The spin on the project is that I want your help to accomplish it! If I build some parts and you build some parts, we will finish this thing much quicker. Plus the contribution format will include reviews, the potential of having your piece(s) assimilated into the final model. Not to mention large quantities of XP are at stake 🤑
NOTE: This is an involved project reserved for Citizen members.
The general idea is that I kickoff stages of the project via live stream, which is typically once per month. For the time in between streams, you choose a piece of the backhoe and apply what you learned from the stream to that piece. For example, the first stream covered initial block out. So between stream 1 and stream 2, your job is to pick a piece and block it out.
This is the repeating protocol for each Assignment Period (between-streams):
I will reply to this thread after each stream with a [big] assignment post denoted by a 📣 emoji in the title. There I will clarify instructions about each Assignment Period.
We will centralize our collaborative communication between the streams and this thread. Ask any and all questions pertaining to the Backhoe project here.
Okay, one more, less obvious connection between 1001 and 9:
Take the multiplicative inverse of the divisors of 1001:
1/7 = 0.142857....(these six digits repeat after that, forever)
1/11 = 0.09.....(repeating)
1/13 = 0.076923,,,,(repeating).
Now add the first half of the repeating digits to the second half (so, for instance: 1+8, 4+5 and 2+7) and you get 9999999.... (infinitely many)
Wow, spikeyxxx, I wasn't aware of these implications! I like these numbers games very much!
Are you a mathematician or at least a numberphile? Then you certainly know the "Numberphile"-Youtube-channel, where I've found a practical use for mathematics concerning the big brother of a cookie, the cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMKInkV7Vs
spikeyxxx One thing I haven't fully understood and which concerns Blender and animations are quaternions. I remember an article in the "Blender Art" magazine Nr. 31 about rotations and escpecially quaternions (imho the best explanation I've found so far) and the Blender foundation's DVD about rigging. But I still haven't fully understood it and searched the internet for explanatory videos which are still blowing my mind and definitively need a deeper insight into mathematics..
duerer I agree that quaternions (although they are just an extension of the complex numbers and therefore not that difficult)
are usually explained really bad, mostly talking about a 4 dimensional hypersphere, like that is something we are all familiar with, but you could start here: https://cgcookie.com/questions/11283-quaternions-demystified-part-one
https://cgcookie.com/questions/11284-quaternions-demystified-intermezzo
https://cgcookie.com/questions/11287-quaternions-demystified-grand-finale
Not the best explanation either, (spoiler. a much beter version is on the way!) but something to at least get a different perspective... (I didn't re-read them, because I'd probably be too ashamed...)
Thanks, spikeyxxx, for the links 😀! You've pointed exactly to a problem that I've encountered so often: the confusing explanations. I have two videos on my "To-watch-list":
But I haven't done it yet, maybe also due to bad experiences with cryptic explanations from people who are surely very intelligent but for some reasons aren't able to explain it well to non-mathematicians. And believe me, I don't give up quickly. It's just that these people don't give proper definitions of the terms they're using. And that's when I stop the video.
I too am a science enthusiast, which I should've studied in college and not Advertisement. Why does society have us pick what we are going to do for the rest of our lives when we are just 16 year old kids. Of course you're more likely to mess your choice up, you're just a kid.
I was 15 and I never pursued my dream because I was too short 😢 I would never have dreamed I’d be so into computers tho, I was in my 40s when I got it btw. But as soon as I learned how. self taught on so many levels I knew graphics was my true dream.
Your never too old to learn!
As far as math and what you guys are saying...yall be talking in a foriegn lingo to me🤣
Too short? You wanted to play basketball? or maybe a professional light bulb installer without a ladder.
Shoot I have a hard time reaching items in the bottom of our top cabinets🤣😖
[Q] do we we need to submit our part this month on the google sheet?? as we have the shared file on google drive is there a need to??
It's a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. If you tackle a challenge with positive thinking, you'll find a way to succeed (as long as you don't try to win a broad jump tournament with a broken leg or something like this, of course).
With the words of CG artist William Vaughan:
" Actually, the one thing you need to go past is simply the way you think.
It's my experience that most people have a can't-do attitude, especially when
it comes to learning new things. When I say most people, I'm not limiting
that to artists new to 3D. I witness this on just about every forum online
and at the industry shows I attend. Most people assume that things are not
possible, they are too dfficult, or special software/hardware is needed to solve
the problem. I always suggest a different approach.
It may sound cliché, but the power of positive thinking goes a long way when
working in this industry. Every day you'll be asked to tackle the impossible,
and if you go in with the attitude of can do, you'll be able to see the task to
completion. If your attitude is not possible, you will most likely not complete
the task. It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy."(William Vaughan: Digital modeling, page 16)
I kinda jumped into immediately reading the quote and assumed it was from Socrates times; "I'm not limiting that to artists new to 3D" I was like WAIT WHAT!? Socrates used computers!?
I'm assuming we don't have to submit. I really thought Kent was away for a long time and the stream was not going to be for a long long while, but it's just this Tuesday, jesus christ. Time under quarantine is behaving really strange.
dostovel Yes, the old Greeks were already very progressive 😉😁! The science history books have to be rewritten!
Socrates had a computer, he played Fifa football on it.
By the way, talking of geniuses, two separate replies, I've just posted, but related to each other by the fact that the brilliant Brazillian football player Socrates died in Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I just googled that, there was indeed a football player named Socrates and died in Albert Einstein. I also googled to see if Albert Einstein died in Socrates, but no, Princeton Medical Center. What a waste.
