Jayru (JSnaith's) 3D Trek

[JSnaith]

There was me thinking it meant something else:

1. a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall.
   • a kind of firework that explodes with a sharp report.

 

[knightgrace]

It depends on context.

Have you ever read the story??

 

[Count Korbula]

A "petard" is doing something really, really stupid.

the phrase is "hoist by his/your own petard" meaning your plans were turned against you or blew yourself up

see: wile e coyote

getting up in the morning does often lead to one's downfall...

 

[knightgrace]

Considering the fact that I only have two legs, for some reason...

 

[JSnaith]

the phrase is "hoist by his/your own petard" meaning your plans were turned against you or blew yourself up

see: wile e coyote

getting up in the morning does often lead to one's downfall...

Makes more sense when you know what a "petard" actually is. Blown up indeed, lol

 

[knightgrace]

Well...it is a blast...

 

[Count Korbula]

the plans themselves don't actually have to be particularly stupid, nor does the planner. just err, or run into someone savvy enough to turn them around on you.

Makes more sense when you know what a "petard" actually is

>insert jpg of peter griffin

i think when i was younger i thought it was leggings

 

[knightgrace]

 

[JSnaith]

Ola Gang!

Soz for the absence, need a break from Trek, as I can only build so many ships before I start going crazier than I actually am. I know I have permission to post other stuff here, but I don't like to take advantage, but in this case, I will share some of what I have been working on so you don't feel left out!



May not be everyone's cup of Tea/Joe - but you know me and obscure sci-fi.

Anyway, more later :-)

 

[B.J.]

Love it! In fact, my only criticism is you calling it "obscure" sci-fi.

 

[knightgrace]

You, as far as I know, are not the lose nut behind the wheel of a school bus...
This is a prerequisite for being a nut.

At least one of my previous bosses, described us as such...

 

[JSnaith]

Love it! In fact, my only criticism is you calling it "obscure" sci-fi.

Absolutely loved the original film and the sequel. I know other peeps do not (like my other half, which is why I will have to wait for "Tron: Ares" to come to a streaming service in order to see it). I have no doubts I will enjoy it. "Star Trek" will always be the show that started my love of design, but "Tron" started my love of computer-aided design.

It's been interesting doing these. Got into a conversation about the first film to use CGI. If you say, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", you're wrong; it's "Vertigo" whose opening credits were computer-drawn. Didn't know that, now I do. But "Tron" made such extensive use of it that it deserves a place in cinematic history.

You're right, it's not obscure, but it's typical of me to like something that maybe isn't as mainstream as ' Trek and ' Wars.

You, as far as I know, are not the lose nut behind the wheel of a school bus...
This is a prerequisite for being a nut.

At least one of my previous bosses, described us as such...

Believe me when I say my mental health is an open book - only way to demystify and educate people is to talk about it. Screw loose? Several are missing. As well as being Autistic I have EUPD as a result of something really nasty that happened when I was a child. ADHD has recently been added to the mix, and Complex PTSD as well. Have I ever been in a hospital because of my mental health? Yes (a nice six-week stay in the local booby-hatch). But I'm a good boy now, and take all my medication so that won't happen again. If all that makes anyone uncomfortable or embarrasses them - tough. I am who I am, and I hide nothing of it ;-)

Anyways... I can fix the world later; for now, I need to rework some elements of the Grid Tank. More later!

 

[B.J.]

It's been interesting doing these. Got into a conversation about the first film to use CGI. If you say, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", you're wrong; it's "Vertigo" whose opening credits were computer-drawn. Didn't know that, now I do. But "Tron" made such extensive use of it that it deserves a place in cinematic history.

Interesting! I wasn't aware of that either, so I had to look it up. I would have guessed they used an oscilloscope, but I was wrong! Found a good article describing how John Whitney did it:
https://brightlightsfilm.com/vicious-circle-john-whitney-and-the-military-origins-of-early-cgi/

For the Vertigo sequence, Bass drew spiraling, twisting shapes based on graphs of parametric equations by the 19th-century mathematician Jules Lissajous. However, Whitney knew that no traditional animation stand could modulate this motion without tangling its wiring. To plot it, Whitney used a “cam machine” made from a rotating M-5 anti-aircraft targeter, a surplus from the war. It had 11,000 components, weighed 850 pounds, and required five soldiers to run, but it was a computer. Each user would put in one variable, e.g., velocity or altitude. Whitney connected the electrical outputs to servos – devices that controlled target positioning – and programmed the targets to move in mathematically controlled ways. He called the movement “incremental drift.”
He then mounted the M-5 and his animation celluloid on a platform, with a pendulum above it. From the pendulum, he hung a pen connected to a 24-foot-high pressurized paint reservoir. As the M-5 moved in tandem with the pendulum, it drew the spirals that open Vertigo. Credit text and trembling, sepia-tint technicolor closeups of Kim Novak whirr and invert as gem-toned spirographs. As in the phenomenon of vertigo, the sense of rotation is a false one. Through this effect, Whitney pioneered the motion-control photography technique still widely used in special effects today. Just as modern motion-control photography involves the combining into a single shot of several shots filmed using the same camera motion, Whitney’s technique involved the animation into a single graphic of several targets plotted as they moved along the same mathematically formulated route.

 

[JSnaith]

It's an interesting deep dive when you start looking into it, and weird to think that Hitchcock brought computer animation to the big screen.

Grid Tank has been finished. Some tweaks were needed, and the colours needed to be matched. I need to rewatch the movie, as I think there were two versions of the Tank, the one used by Clu and the ones used by the MCP. Certainly, what I've done is Clu's tank:



More later.

 

[JSnaith]

How to kill a conversation - tell people you're a nut, how to stop it dead: prove it, lol.


So after doing some research (as in rewatching the film), there are two versions of the tank, the orange, darker one belongs to Clu, the green ones belong to the MCP:



Comments welcome, more later (moving away from the Tanks and onto the Carrier).

 

[knightgrace]

Good of course.

I am quite aware that (sorry) Star Trek is for the foreseeable future, total bunk. Why? KAHN didn't happen...

Tron, for essentially the same reasons.

But fun bunk. Especially with the questions raised.

 

[JSnaith]

Good of course.

I am quite aware that (sorry) Star Trek is for the foreseeable future, total bunk. Why? KAHN didn't happen...

Tron, for essentially the same reasons.

But fun bunk. Especially with the questions raised.

Trek is still going to happen here - I just need to play in other universes for a bit so I don't get bored, or burnout.

More soon!

 

[knightgrace]

Tryas you are going about other univereses Space 1999...

As well as the Predator/Alien franchise...

And just for kicks... Time Tunnel.

 

[JSnaith]

Tryas you are going about other univereses Space 1999...

As well as the Predator/Alien franchise...

And just for kicks... Time Tunnel.

Lost in Space, Buck Rogers, BSG, Logan's Run... I grew up with them all