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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    3drendero said:
    Load up some of the samples from here and check the syntax. Maybe it is a simple thing like ; at every row or extra space bars here and there. http://gianp.free.fr/carrara/indexcarrara.html

    I have all those but not the brain to interface with it

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086
    edited January 2019

    Not sure that I can break the code.  cheeky

     

    however, one issue that I see right away is that z is defined as a set if you check the web reference, not a single integer; therefore, Carrara won’t correctly interpret the formula if typed in the box just as z=r^n.  May take a look later, but no promises. There is playoff football (American) to watch.

    http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html#formula

     

    edit - for one thing,  the trig functions should all be defined for a range related to pi, and there are a couple of suspects (phi, p, and P) in your more recent post.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    Diomede_Carrara said:

    Not sure that I can break the code.  cheeky

     

    however, one issue that I see right away is that z is defined as a set if you check the web reference, not a single integer; therefore, Carrara won’t correctly interpret the formula if typed in the box just as z=r^n.  May take a look later, but no promises. There is playoff football (American) to watch.

    http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html#formula

     

    edit - for one thing,  the trig functions should all be defined for a range related to pi, and there are a couple of suspects (phi, p, and P) in your more recent post.

    well I know I can't, maths is largely like gibberish to me cheeky

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938

    this looks impressive 

    its not a software, the uploader coded it himself 

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    Many years ago now, I saw Thunderbirds FAB, the stage play. Just two actors, with props & special effects, managed to convey all the main characters from Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett, as well as classic set pieces like the TB2 launch sequence. It was awesome!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    edited January 2019

    this looks interesting

    and beyond my abilities

    they make some cool 2D animations that look 3D

    https://www.shadertoy.com/

    all web based using code

     

    I am looking at the Carrara backdrop formula and thinking............well trying to

    I looked in the Carrara manual at all the possible bits of formula the operators, variables etc, as I said I lack a mathematical brain but can copy paste as well as the next dumbass just need to use things found in Carrara's recognised list of stuffs

     

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    Diomede_Carrara said:

    Not sure that I can break the code.  cheeky

     

    however, one issue that I see right away is that z is defined as a set if you check the web reference, not a single integer; therefore, Carrara won’t correctly interpret the formula if typed in the box just as z=r^n.  May take a look later, but no promises. There is playoff football (American) to watch.

    http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html#formula

     

    edit - for one thing,  the trig functions should all be defined for a range related to pi, and there are a couple of suspects (phi, p, and P) in your more recent post.

    I am trying to find your Backdrop formula post, the one where you did the one in your avatar

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086
    edited January 2019

    Wendy, the background in my current avatar is not from the formula modeler.  I made it by choosing a color gradient and then using a simple grayscale gradient as the driver.  The sleeping Star! character image had the formula background.

    RE: the formula modeler - here is an old thread in which I tried to share what little I know about using the formula modeler.  Credit to @FifthElement and @Territan for great posts.    Unfortunately, it looks like some of my screencaps did not survive.  The good news is that the discussion of Carrara's trig function range did survive. For Carrara, -Pi to Pi (or 0 to 2Pi) has to be converted to 0-1.  
    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/114716/formula-example

     

    Here is another formula thread -     http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/30859/formula/p1

     

    Here is the web address for "that great French formula site."  The shader formula for the background of the sleeping Star! image came from here.
    http://gianp.free.fr/carrara/indexcarrara.html

     

     

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086
    edited January 2019

    @SteveK - The first time I saw Sky Captain I was disappointed, especially with Gwenneth as Polly Perkins.  However, I saw it again several years later and liked it much better.  I wonder if I had difficulty accepting the stylized background and sets the first time I saw it, but had become more accustomed during the intervening years?  

    @TangoAlpha - Thunderbirds, FAB the stage play sounds wonderful.  Wish I had been there.

     

    For those unfamiliar, the premise of the puppet scifi show Captain Scarlett vs the Mysterons was that Captain Scarlett had become indestructible by a freak accident.  So, if his superpower is merely that he cannot be killed, each week the writers had to come up with new ways to kill him (or not kill him in this case).  Captain Scarlett getting run over by a truck.  Captain Scarlett falling out of a plane at high altitude.  Captain Scarlett getting bitten by a shark.  It was the kind of thing that fascinates 8-year-old boys - which i was. 

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    Diomede_Carrara said:

    Wendy, the background in my current avatar is not from the formula modeler.  I made it by choosing a color gradient and then using a simple grayscale gradient as the driver.  The sleeping Star! character image had the formula background.

    RE: the formula modeler - here is an old thread in which I tried to share what little I know about using the formula modeler.  Credit to @FifthElement and @Territan for great posts.    Unfortunately, it looks like some of my screencaps did not survive.  The good news is that the discussion of Carrara's trig function range did survive. For Carrara, -Pi to Pi (or 0 to 2Pi) has to be converted to 0-1.  
    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/114716/formula-example

     

    Here is the web address for "that great French formula site."  The shader formula for the background of the sleeping Star! image came from here.
    http://gianp.free.fr/carrara/indexcarrara.html

     

     

    thread bookmarked, I too have all those French examples and a html of the site but yeah having and comprehending are different things cheeky

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    Diomede_Carrara said:

    @SteveK - The first time I saw Sky Captain I was disappointed, especially with Gwenneth as Polly Perkins.  However, I saw it again several years later and liked it much better.  I wonder if I had difficulty accepting the stylized background and sets the first time I saw it, but had become more accustomed during the intervening years?  

    @TangoAlpha - Thunderbirds, FAB the stage play sounds wonderful.  Wish I had been there.

     

    For those unfamiliar, the premise of the puppet scifi show Captain Scarlett vs the Mysterons was that Captain Scarlett had become indestructible by a freak accident.  So, if his superpower is merely that he cannot be killed, each week the writers had to come up with new ways to kill him (or not kill him in this case).  Captain Scarlett getting run over by a truck.  Captain Scarlett falling out of a plane at high altitude.  Captain Scarlett getting bitten by a shark.  It was the kind of thing that fascinates 8-year-old boys - which i was. 

    The Mysterons were always portrayed by two circles of white light playing over the set. Quite scary to an 8 year old (and easy to do on stage!). The stage version opened with the classic Captain Scarlet knocked over bottle and screeching cat in an alleyway scene (which you can see here  )

    I found this short piece of news footage that gives a feel for how the stage show worked: 

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086

    Thanks for the news clip.  I wish very much I had had a chance to see the play.  

    Their effort to walk like puppets, even blink like puppets, was truly joyous.  heart

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 7,835
    Diomede_Carrara said:

     

    So, if his superpower is merely that he cannot be killed, each week the writers had to come up with new ways to kill him (or not kill him in this case).  Captain Scarlett getting run over by a truck.  Captain Scarlett falling out of a plane at high altitude.  Captain Scarlett getting bitten by a shark.  It was the kind of thing that fascinates 8-year-old boys - which i was. 

    reminds me of Super Dave Osborne laugh

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938

    Captain Jack Harkness heart

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,194
    Diomede_Carrara said:

    @SteveK - The first time I saw Sky Captain I was disappointed, especially with Gwenneth as Polly Perkins.  However, I saw it again several years later and liked it much better.  I wonder if I had difficulty accepting the stylized background and sets the first time I saw it, but had become more accustomed during the intervening years?  

    I think for me, it was just a refreshing approach, unlike almost all of the other scifi movies.  Plus I was a big fan of similar genres, e.g. steampunk, and was trying to do some similar animations in Carrara.  In fact, some of my efforts were very similar, if way less polished.  Prop plane fighters, dirigibles, huge robots, ... as Mr. Ebert said, it reminded me of "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet", but done with great production values.  I even did a short animation "Space Cadet Luther" which had to be influenced by similar stories from long ago.  BTW, you might enjoy the original Sky Captain short (6 minutes):

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938

    DAZ iray sorry

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

     

     

    Wendy_Carrara said:

    DAZ iray sorry

    biological exuberance?

    dunno what that means but sounds interesting

  • CbirdCbird Posts: 493

    Broccolini with a touch of frost ????

     

    Wendy_Carrara said:

    DAZ iray sorry

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086
    edited January 2019

    Maybe some snowflakes this weekend.

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    maybe some snow sprinkles.JPG
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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938

    looks like good rendering weather if no lightning 

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086
    edited January 2019
    Wendy_Carrara said:

    looks like good rendering weather if no lightning 

    Yup, and maybe some ot hot chocolate.

     

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938

    I spy Dartanbeck runniing around in here like a kid in the candy store devil

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938

    testing hair collission, a fur suit may help collision, I only furred her face and neck

    the jitter well that is another day's issue

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086

    Only Intermittant Internet Again

    but this time not due to traveling.

     

    I won’t be responding as frequently as I have in the past, but all is well.  It is just that Washington DC is a little crazy right now.  My building is responding to so many of our residents’ jobs being shut down in a number of ways (mostly positive in being lenient on stuff and waiving late fees).  However, one side effect is that I have to go to group areas for internet until I make personal arrangements for my unit, or until normalcy is restored.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i need a prop of a wad of cash.  want to show greed in a politically bent cartoon, fist full of dollars

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    PIZZA PARTY!!!  MEATA BALL

    is it warm somewhere in the worlds?  20F here windchill of 5F IGLOOOOO

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    edited January 2019

    cholesterol is 8 no pizza for me, I need to stick to stuff with Omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidents 

    mmm wine and crackers with salmon and avocado?

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,938
    Mystarra said:

    PIZZA PARTY!!!  MEATA BALL

    is it warm somewhere in the worlds?  20F here windchill of 5F IGLOOOOO

    you can have some of our 40C

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Wendy_Carrara said:
    Mystarra said:

    PIZZA PARTY!!!  MEATA BALL

    is it warm somewhere in the worlds?  20F here windchill of 5F IGLOOOOO

    you can have some of our 40C

    okay  thanx  warms huddle heart

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,086
    edited January 2019
    Mystarra said:

    i need a prop of a wad of cash.  want to show greed in a politically bent cartoon, fist full of dollars

    Here you go.  See attached.  The textures are for illustrative purposes only.  The prop is just a flattened and subdivided cube.  Load any image to be the bill face and resize the prop to match.  There is a morph to fold the bill.  There is a file with a few bills folded together in a wad.  EDIT: Let me know if there are any problems.

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    CashWad Freebie.zip
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