Maya 2020 fundamentals - modelling the real world
Get halfway through a model and find it's an unworkable mess? Can't add edge loops where you need them? Can't subdivide a mesh properly? If any of this sounds familiar check this course out.
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have a good one too
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https://alephzero.co.uk/what.htm
interesting idea!!
Mayaniac
I believe the nano tubes you are on about were based on the spider web principle?? Where the tensile strength of a spider web and its marvellous construction is 10 times stronger than the strongest steel we have yet devised on a scalar level??? They have used the principle in fishing line stringing the polymers together similar to the web to give a fantastic resistant strength, COUPLED with the elasticity of a true web, therefore giving it a much greater prospect of surviving multiple stresses.
This is being applied to building material as we speak, maybe one day in the future our bridges will be made of the stuff (as you stated) and when we return to the caves our ancestors will marvel at them as we do the pyramids. The beauty lies in natures design people!!!! we need not invent it, it is already there, as a wonderful being we are able to adapt these things to our own purpose.
Check out the doco's "Extreme Engineering" guys, if you are interested in construction (yes I am a Surveyor so yes I am), then check it out. It steers away from the sci-fi alien stuff but is real and marvellous. It makes me wonder some times why, as a species, we can be so cold and cruel to each other YET get together to accomplish what the dinosaurs couldnt.
cheers bullet
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"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes
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@ Bullet
Speed of light = 299,792,458Meters per second,
or 186,000 miles per second ( rounded off )
Sorry i think i typed hour earlier
@Steve
you stated the size of a computer doesn't matter?
this page actually tells the source and the calculations which backup my statement, that the speed of light can actually effect the size of a computer in relation to the speed at which it processes.
I.E. a 3 gig processor has to be within 10 CM of all the parts of the computer which it directly interacts with, or it will become slower.
Maximum Theoretical Processor Speed
Also Multi core processing is only a temporary fix, It is a work around for a problem that still exists, even computer techs will tell you this.
As far as nano technology being used in a computer, Perhaps, It is stated that a 12NM chip set will be required to support a true A.I.
But i think that the theories that govern Quantum Computing are more promising then Nano computers. They are based on Quantum Entanglement ( thank you by the way for correcting me, don't know why i was saying small and large nuclear attractions )
and on to quantum entanglement, Aye, true the partical, photon or part of the atom in question does not in its self move, but The data being transferred is moving faster then the speed of light, Theoretically two particles on opposite sides of the universe could instantaneously effect each other which would in essence be the data flowing between them has either A folded space on a quantum level, or B, traveled faster then the speed of light.
True that at least at this time it wouldn't work for a complex item such as a human, but it appears that a similar principle was used for the transporters in Star trek, and Michio Kaku stated in his series Sci Fi Science that it would be a plausible theory in 50 years or so for human transportation.
LAst thought on teleportation .
If Person A has to be vaporized so that you can rematerialized as PErson B, then what would that do to the laws concerning murder and malice in our great land? Could you not use as a true and fee-sable case against a murder charge " I was attempting to transport him...he forgot to re materialize "
On to carbon nano tubes:
they are in their self awesome, i would love to see a form of carbon nano tube memory material, Such as the memory springs that you can do what ever with then when they are heated or cooled to a specific temperature they spring back to their correct shape.
( Side note, Michio Kaku stated in "How to build a space ship" one could actually use carbon nano tubes, and a lattice work of lasers to protect the space ship from both incoming weapons, or space debris. )
So i was un aware that they make a great conductor , are they able to conduct all forms of energy? Heat fole, electromagnetic? and if so to the later, would they be capable of transmitting Light information as part of their electro magnetic conductivity? Also, what temperature do they have to be to be so conductive? would that temperature make them any more viable then ceramic superconductors?
To the LHC and other particle colliders = I hold thoughts on weather it is a truly fruitful venture until the LHC comes fully online in 2011.
Alpha Zero? i am un familiar with. enlighten me?
@ Jay and Bullet
Warp Theory. Their are two current working theories for true warp travel. #1, Mr Scotts Theory, warp space in front of and behind the ship so that the ship is both pulled and pushed along in a man made gravity well through space, This will both Solve the problem of time travel during FTL travel, and also solve the issue of inertial dampening...
Once more, Michio Kaku did a nice write up on it in his Sci Fi Science series last season. Basically he theorized that at the current progression of Scientific knowledge one would be able to use Anti matter / mater collisions ( yes, anti matter has been spotted, and proven to exist ) to create the energy required to cause the warp field effect, But the question would then become how to effectively harness this energy...Welp he proposed an answer to that as well, Using superconductive materials to form a magnetic containment device for the explosions. This theory has already been proven effective by using magnetic fields to both contain and shape the flow of Plasma.
(Side Note here, He also showed how to use Magnetically controlled plasma, and a telescoping tube to make a light saver, that hums and sparks just like all of us would want to see. and would also be able to cut through steel or a human body with little to no effort. )
@ Bullet, you think zero is hard to comprehend?
Try comprehending Planck time. There are more units of planck time in a single second, then there have been seconds since the formation of the universe 13.9 billion years ago.
see if you can wrap your head around that one easier then you can wrap your head around 0
and to answer your question Absolute zero is actually the correct term for the unit of measurement which you referr that can only have its state changed by adding to or subtracting from.
If i missed anything , i'll figure it out later
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you are truly wonderful!!! It is nice to see some one who has more time than I to actually sit down and have a good read. I love it!!! Keep it up, the more you expose yourself to this the more you will learn.
And I believe it was Quantum Computing on the doco I was watching while they proposed building or constructing new materials on an atomic level??? I think they were British guys, fairly young too, I will look for it.
The trouble with teleporting organics, is, they are organic. To have the processing power to 1: compute and hold BILLIONS of moving cells in an instant of time is pretty damn hard. 2: to transport said organic (even across the room) and EVERY single particle to be re-arranged (hopefully not inside out) is again pretty damn hard. 3: If said organic is vapourised you have NO backup file so to speak of to arrange it at the other end if it goes pearshaped. Where does the data from this process get stored (if at all)?
The small and large nuclear forces you are on about, I think you are getting the Unified theory in there???
Yes absolute zero is what I was on about, it is/was apparently a pivotal concept in mathmatics back in the day of wine/women and conqueor.
I posted a link to Aleph zero below bro.
Again with the space craft, you would need considerable processing power to protect it from particles hitting it I would think. I dont belive the human race will need to travel anyway, having a replicant or avatar to do the job is more efficient and negates the need to preserve the organic side of it. We would still need to break FTL for data in any case as comms between you and the avatar would be impossible and of course the time paradox created when at FTL or faster.
Planck time?? I have read about it somewhere.