Ah, what do you get when you cross a physicist, an anarchist, an artist, and a capitalist? 3d impossible sculpture t-shirts. Errm, well not yet, but I'm working on it. A while back I had this idea that selling long sleeve t-shirts at JF would be a really important part of JF. Now it's more getting content up, but you'll see... What does a 3d impossible t-shirt have to do with JF? Well, very little. But it's the type of shirt that Jav would wear, so... You get the picture. What we have here is Body number 40 with a little artsy thing pasted over it. The artsy thing is supposed to be part of the shirt. I know, I know, I messed it all up, but forgive me. I'm actually planning on making the impossible sculpture be partially transparent (to give depth) and lit from the right side to provide more 3d perspective and a more complex gradient. Also, it'll have a texture on it. What is it and why is it impossible? Well, a few things. First off, a torus is 3d object that was tough to understand without an actual 3d model (a doughnut, for example). It signifies the superiority of 3d modelling over real world and thinking minds. The inner part is just a cylinder that has no endcaps and has been squished in the middle. It's impossible because it has the odd property of only being one pixel thick no matter how close you are to it. Take a sheet of paper and look really close to it. It grows in size as you draw closer to it. The 3d model has thickness of one pixel but at the same time can be said to have zero thickness. Thus, the superiority of 3d is once again seen. Higher-order thinking is enabled by computers. Where-as it used to be that the best model of the universe could be explained as spheres colliding, attracting, and repelling one another, the present is able to - and the future will - see such systems as surfaces with zero thickness, yet a finite surface area, and even perhaps a volume. Here at AltSci, I say: "While the world remains impossible, we will forever strive to make it possible." The lesson today, if you haven't figured it out is that the word impossible means that the tools are not yet in place. Wait until they are or build your own tools.
If you keep checking for the latest JF, Scene 5, Page 3, You'll be unsurprised when you do go there and find something. Actually, if you check as often as you should, there's a bug in the UW Unix server that won't show it to you. The best way to check for JF is to type into your address bar: http://students.washington.edu/jvoss/javantea/latest.htm?random where random is a collection of numbers and characters that you haven't typed in before. I know, I know, nobody will ever do that, but that's what you get when you rely on others, right. Is that a question? Should I put a question mark at the end? But it's a rhetorical question. Ah, who cares... Wait, I've done it again! When will the madness stop. ^_^ Last one, I promise.
Today in Physics 227 - out of the blue - I came up with a brilliant idea to make a body that is made of seperate bodyparts that are connected by flabby skin. When the skeleton moves, the flabby skin stretches while the body part stays solid. That is how these arms are working. They aren't great, but they show the system. The system is not working very well. You can see that the armpits are flipped inside out. It's slightly better than the Jav model, but comparable to the Dojo Ambush perp model which uses a different system. I think this system will work pretty well once I figure out the correct placement of joints and vertexes. As for the vertex and triangle waste, it's pretty compact for all the detail that it gives. It's also pretty close to my vision of the human anatomy. That's a good thing. We all like being truthful to reality at some points in the process. Body dynamics is my area.
Tonight's lesson is that of perseverance. When something is all wrong, you know it's not worth it to keep going. Your effort will all go for naught as long as you refuse to give up. You hate yourself, you hate everyone else. Your ideas turn to that of evil-doing and evil-doers. You think that it would be nice to drive a BMW even if you had to kill an innocent person to get it. But then a ray of hope enters your life and for a while you cannot think of anything but it. You attempt to regain control of yourself. Rays of hope rarely last. In fact, rays of hope are often evil in disguise. You regain your senses. Itching in your mind the the thought that maybe that the ray of hope was just a ray of sunshine, harmless, helpful, necessary, and beautiful beyond compare. Your senses mean less to you, but your effort continues. You are driven to perform. A small victory here, a small bit of effort spent, a small pleasure, a bit of pain, but where are you now? You're further than you were at the start of the paragraph, aren't you?
