Re: News from the users group

["adrian" <adrian.wyer(at)fluid-pictures.com>]

i think kim's machine was more like this 
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/babbage.gif

Adrian Wyer
Fluid Pictures
33 Glasshouse Street
London
W1B 5DG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juan Brockhaus" <Juan(at)glassworks.co.uk>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: News from the users group


> Giga CAD+ on the Commodore 64
>
> http://www.lemon64.com/museum/view.php?id=289&genre=manualmisc
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> Juan
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy E. Sutherland [mailto:sandy(at)waterfrontstudios.co.za]
> Sent: 02 August 2006 14:42
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: News from the users group
>
>
> Er.....which one - I bet you had the 4D 35 GT?????? He he - how about a 4D
> 25  and before that - SIGH - the Amiga, running Sculpt Animate and such -
> remember the graph paper to plot vertices!
>
> Jeez - making me feel old here!!!
>
> S.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of VR XSI Forces
> Sent: Wed 8/2/2006 3:10 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: News from the users group
>
> O.K. ... let's go really old school: Personal Iris with 2.51
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf 
> Of
> adrian
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:37 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: News from the users group
>
> ahhhh the indigo2 Extreme.....
>
> brings a tear to the eye.....
>
> a
>
> Adrian Wyer
> Fluid Pictures
> 33 Glasshouse Street
> London
> W1B 5DG
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy E. Sutherland" <sandy(at)waterfrontstudios.co.za>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:50 AM
> Subject: RE: News from the users group
>
>
>
> Octane - OCTANE - O C T A N E - foresooth - that is seriously hitech - we
> used to drool at getting an Octane - used to be on Indigo2 and O2!!!!
>
> S.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Kris Rivel
> Sent: Wed 8/2/2006 7:11 AM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: News from the users group
>
> Ah well, it looks like I may be the first to post some info.  Mind you
> I'm a bit drunk right now as I just got back from the party but here ya 
> go:
>
> The event kicked off with Mark showing us some really cool stuff in
> something called, "Softimage 3d".  They ran it on this mysterious "SGI
> Octane".....lol....actually I'm being serious.  They did this funny
> flashback thing and played around a bit with SI3D on an old Octane to
> remind us all how how much we loved the stuff.  It is pretty amazing to
> compare SI3D's 60,000 polygon limit to XSI's millions of polygons.
>
> A couple very funny pictures of Kim Aldis, Greg Punchatz and Steve Caron
> were put on display.  I sure hope the pop up again and someone could
> provide a link....they were very amusing.
>
> Some cool demos by the Factor 5 guys and some Face Robot using the data
> from the new Contour motion capture system by Mova.
>
> Finally, a sneak peak at some TECH PREVIEW stuff showing:
>
> Shaderballs - yep, you heard it hear...shaderballs.  They are displayed
> in a separate window or in each node in your render tree to show you the
> result of your tree up to that point.  Your default shader ball however
> can be whatever geometry you might want it to be.
>
> Animation Layering - You can have multiple "layers" of animation.  So
> you have some fcurves or clips driving a character.  You then can switch
> to another "layer" to add more fcurves or clips.  The result is an
> offset animation which you can tweak by going back and fourth through
> the layers....looks pretty cool.
>
> Render Region - A couple cool things to the render region.  You can have
> multiple render regions open.  You can also save regions like you would
> save a view port view and toggle back and fourth to "compare" your
> current region with a saved one.  No more "print screen" and bringing it
> into Photoshop.
>
> Anyway, thats it for now.  Hope I don't get in trouble for that but oh
> well.  I'm a bit toasted at the moment and I figure it was shown to the
> public so what the hell  :-)
>
>
> Kris
>
>
> Scott C. Lange wrote:
> > Hi peeps,
> >
> > I just wanted to reiterate Sascha's request for posting news from the
> > users group meeting tonight. It would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you and wishing I could go,
> >
> > Scott
>
>
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