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Sector13 [Screenshot]

GCDF ships now have a new device called a micro-missile launcher. The device launches 9 concurrent missiles which activate 55 milliseconds appart to attack their targets. This is the Thunderbird.

View TGA Thumbnails in Windows Explorer

By default, Windows Explorer does not create thumbnails for TGA images. If you want thumbnails, there is [this handy plugin] available.

Only listen to music you like

[Pandora.com] is a new flash based music site that only plays music you like. Tune in to stations and skip songs you don’t like.

Microsoft Coding4Fun

Tony posted an excellent article: [Controlling Your Computer with X10]. The project makes use of hardware, xml, and speech synthesis. Example source is available.

[MSDN Coding4fun] has a ton of other cool webcasts.

Especially [this webcast] at 22:13 which touches on Open Source. Quite motivational. Shows what happens to engineers after 28+ years. Also definitively shows the intent of the mouse, which is “the mouse should have as many buttons as can possibly be affixed to it.”

Ogre3D 1.0.6

[Ogre3D 1.0.6] was just released. The new Ogre has support for Visual Studio 2005.

ZBrush — ZMapper

[ZMapper] just released for [ZBrush].

ZBrush

Painted pre-existing models from the [Modo site]:

ZBrush

Painted pre-existing models from the [Modo site]:

ZBrush

Painted pre-existing models from the [Modo site]:

TagCMA Administration

I did some site cleanup this weekend. I moved the [TagCMA.com] site hosted by [HTTPME.com] over to [Sourceforge.net]. And setup a [TagCMA.com] redirect to the [TagElfFax.sourceforge.net ] project page. The images and database were transferred successfully. I had to dig through [Sourceforge documentation] to get this all working.

Snow in November

We got the first snow fall of this winter. Hopefully this year makes up for the past few.

ZBrush

Painted pre-existing models from the [Modo site]:

ZBrush

Painted pre-existing models from the [Modo site]:

Modo

ZBrush

Thread Performance of Modo

While watching the [Modo 201 Event] again, I found this slide interesting. It shows in this case, spawning 2 threads has better performance than 50-80 per CPU. The natural tendency for a developer is just spawn threads when performance is bad. “1 Thread” corresponds to a single processor server. “2 Threads” corresponds to a dual processor server. And “4 Threads” corresponds to a dual processor server with hyper-threading. In this graph of rendering times, the lower the number, the better.