Is that a floor cleaning mop the ‘light haired’ granny has on her head? Or just rendering disaggreeing with the artist?
Seems they think (Granny 1 and 2) that justice is to be for what ‘you’ have received as a ‘reward’ for what ‘you’ have done, not for what ‘YOU’ have actually done against others…
They seem to forget that Lady Justitia is supposed to be blind. The Sheriff hasn’t forgotten…
Not that I’m that clear on ‘the Book’, but I think I remeber the sentence: Do to others what you want them to do to you.
Jan, I’m no CGI maven but I rather suspect that is an artifact of the Daz rendering engine. Not enough of a modeller to be exactly sure how hair is made (except that it comes in a “style” which fits on and adheres to an otherwise bald character’s head. It clearly is not composed of individual strands or the rendering engine would require even more graphics computing power than it already does. The Catman once told me his graphics card is water cooled. That means it has an enormous amount of high speed RAM on it PLUS a very high speed grapnics processor (GPU) chip. I suspect he needs all the power to be able to set up and view a.shot in real time. Graphics are some of the most computing-intensive things you can do on a computer. Animation houses such as Pixar have literally BANKS UPON BANKS of compact supercomputers to render their movies and I doubt they render video in anythingneven REMOTELY resembling “real time”. Setting up and rendering a CGI video may be evenmore labor intensive and take LONGER to “shoot” than a live-action film. The digital special effects a.director such as James Cameron demands and is able to get these days is staggeringly expensive.
Bill is correct, another online artist friend , haz a very high end compy an still bogs on rendering… BUT comparing a PC to a ‘render farm'(RF) is like comparing an ,, apple to a bus… the only thing the PC an RF have in common is they use computer parts.. of the 3 major RF i know of (ILM {Deathstar} , WETA , an Pixar .) Pixar has the smallest ‘supercomputer’ with over 30,000 cores..
example: Avatar, WETA was using 8 gigabytes a second for 8 to 10 hours to render one frame… (thats 1.4 million functions at the same time…)
And just think. My little (upgraded- RAM, CPU and graphics card) obsolete as it is is many times faster than anything NASA had (or in the WORLD, for that matter) when Neil Armstrong made his “small step”. Hell! If you drive a U.S. made automobile manufactured since about 1996, you’ve got more raw computing power under the hood controlling your engine than was in the entire Command/Service Module and Lunar Module stack COMBINED! But even a low range pentium based PC would qualify as a “supercomputer” in the 60s.
Rob, where did you run across that bandwidth quote for WETA on Avatar?
so math again.. Avatar is 162 minutes long,, there are 24 frames a second,,. 24 times 60 seconds, = 1440 frames a min.. 1440 times 162 minutes, 233,280 total frames in the movie.. no wonder they hired 4 other render farms to finish the move…
also just my little flip phone has more cpu power than nasa of the 60’s… which was a IBM 7049 with 32k of hard disk,. ( each hard disk was 5meg @ two tons each,, 7 hard disks a total of 14 tons…) nasa changed to the new IBM 360 in 1965,, but we did not see the “hard drives” we are used to untill the 1980s…
For those who are not history or ancient weapons buffs, a “ballista” was a “torsion” (twisted rope) powered device for throwing heavy spears at enemies. Think “crossbow on steroids” and you’ll get the picture except the “bolt” (i.e.what a crossbow throws. Arrows are for regular bows) could be 10 ft long and weigh 100lbs! They could also throw round projectiles like larger types of what many (mistakenly) call “catapults”. A ballista was easier to aim than an “onager” (torsion powered stone thrower) but could not hurl as heavy a projectile as an onager or trebuchet (long armed siege machine with hanging counter weights). An onager or trebuchet could batter down walls but a ballista could throw a heavy spear through the wooden armor of a siege tower. Make a hellova mess of a man if he got in front of one.
I can see why the Cats would use ballistae. Properly made they would be easily aimed and could throw large bolts or round projectiles through the thin skins of aircraft. Imagine trying to land a helo with some asscat throwing 6ft long steel tipped spears or bowling ball sized iron or stone projectiles at you at high speed! Would NOT be good for your health! Note: the torsion apparatus to power a ballista need not be.made of plant-fiber rope, either. Wet, twisted uncured animal skins would do just fine. Plus, using the skins for that would not eliminate their later usefullness to be tanned and made into other useful things. Cats are hunters and would have no adversion to using leather.
One of my private dreams is to have enough time to build a ballista patterned after a Chinese repeating crossbow. There are written records of the ancient Greeks having them, but no drawings or preserved artifacts, so most historians are skeptical.
Rob, did you know they had a trebuchet variation which used people as the counterweight? There were platforms on each side and the guys would grab handles on the end of the throwing arm and pull it down with their own weight. There were also versions which used ropes for the guys on the counterweight teams to pull down. They didn’t have the same throw weight or range of the bigger models but it meant that the engineers didn’t have to haul.around or scrounge those big rocks. They also would’ve been easier to cock in preparation for a shot since there would be no counterweight. A big, boulder counterweighted trebuchet was pretty much the acme of pre-gun powder artillery. It must’ve been terrifying to be under seige and hear the whipcrack whoosh of one on those beasts going off. From watching punkin-chunkin contests on TV it’s clear that the sound of one of those things being fired would reach the defenders on the walls long before the projectile did.
hence the “in my sword group.” yes , and it came first (called a Mangonel.), an was brought to Europe , where they made it bigger an added a counterweight ..
Did the meeting with King T’Chaka happen between panels 2 and 3 of #768? I thought it was still ahead of us. Or are Ace and Shawn in town to pick up the promised provisions? Either way, when did they have time to play the camera’s memory? If the first, I would assume they were in the room when T’Chaka saw it, and we just haven’t been told how that went yet.
And I repeat my opinion: the kerosene fire may have seemed horrific, but compared to dying of slow impalement it was merciful. Seared trachea and sinuses suffocate you quickly by comparison. Just like death by suffocation from crucifixion is sped up by breaking the victim’s legs.
In short? Donte took the camera to Jackson and turned it over to Sheriff Ace, who watched it
and then returned with Donte to have a word with the townsfolk.
Because of the Legion’s message. More later.
Is that a floor cleaning mop the ‘light haired’ granny has on her head? Or just rendering disaggreeing with the artist?
Seems they think (Granny 1 and 2) that justice is to be for what ‘you’ have received as a ‘reward’ for what ‘you’ have done, not for what ‘YOU’ have actually done against others…
They seem to forget that Lady Justitia is supposed to be blind. The Sheriff hasn’t forgotten…
Not that I’m that clear on ‘the Book’, but I think I remeber the sentence: Do to others what you want them to do to you.
Jan, I’m no CGI maven but I rather suspect that is an artifact of the Daz rendering engine. Not enough of a modeller to be exactly sure how hair is made (except that it comes in a “style” which fits on and adheres to an otherwise bald character’s head. It clearly is not composed of individual strands or the rendering engine would require even more graphics computing power than it already does. The Catman once told me his graphics card is water cooled. That means it has an enormous amount of high speed RAM on it PLUS a very high speed grapnics processor (GPU) chip. I suspect he needs all the power to be able to set up and view a.shot in real time. Graphics are some of the most computing-intensive things you can do on a computer. Animation houses such as Pixar have literally BANKS UPON BANKS of compact supercomputers to render their movies and I doubt they render video in anythingneven REMOTELY resembling “real time”. Setting up and rendering a CGI video may be evenmore labor intensive and take LONGER to “shoot” than a live-action film. The digital special effects a.director such as James Cameron demands and is able to get these days is staggeringly expensive.
Bill is correct, another online artist friend , haz a very high end compy an still bogs on rendering… BUT comparing a PC to a ‘render farm'(RF) is like comparing an ,, apple to a bus… the only thing the PC an RF have in common is they use computer parts.. of the 3 major RF i know of (ILM {Deathstar} , WETA , an Pixar .) Pixar has the smallest ‘supercomputer’ with over 30,000 cores..
example: Avatar, WETA was using 8 gigabytes a second for 8 to 10 hours to render one frame… (thats 1.4 million functions at the same time…)
And just think. My little (upgraded- RAM, CPU and graphics card) obsolete as it is is many times faster than anything NASA had (or in the WORLD, for that matter) when Neil Armstrong made his “small step”. Hell! If you drive a U.S. made automobile manufactured since about 1996, you’ve got more raw computing power under the hood controlling your engine than was in the entire Command/Service Module and Lunar Module stack COMBINED! But even a low range pentium based PC would qualify as a “supercomputer” in the 60s.
Rob, where did you run across that bandwidth quote for WETA on Avatar?
https://rendernow.co.uk/computing-rendering-behind-avatar/
so math again.. Avatar is 162 minutes long,, there are 24 frames a second,,. 24 times 60 seconds, = 1440 frames a min.. 1440 times 162 minutes, 233,280 total frames in the movie.. no wonder they hired 4 other render farms to finish the move…
also just my little flip phone has more cpu power than nasa of the 60’s… which was a IBM 7049 with 32k of hard disk,. ( each hard disk was 5meg @ two tons each,, 7 hard disks a total of 14 tons…) nasa changed to the new IBM 360 in 1965,, but we did not see the “hard drives” we are used to untill the 1980s…
Nice rendering of a Cat skull, looks vaguely demonic to human eyes, but it’s not.
For those who are not history or ancient weapons buffs, a “ballista” was a “torsion” (twisted rope) powered device for throwing heavy spears at enemies. Think “crossbow on steroids” and you’ll get the picture except the “bolt” (i.e.what a crossbow throws. Arrows are for regular bows) could be 10 ft long and weigh 100lbs! They could also throw round projectiles like larger types of what many (mistakenly) call “catapults”. A ballista was easier to aim than an “onager” (torsion powered stone thrower) but could not hurl as heavy a projectile as an onager or trebuchet (long armed siege machine with hanging counter weights). An onager or trebuchet could batter down walls but a ballista could throw a heavy spear through the wooden armor of a siege tower. Make a hellova mess of a man if he got in front of one.
I can see why the Cats would use ballistae. Properly made they would be easily aimed and could throw large bolts or round projectiles through the thin skins of aircraft. Imagine trying to land a helo with some asscat throwing 6ft long steel tipped spears or bowling ball sized iron or stone projectiles at you at high speed! Would NOT be good for your health! Note: the torsion apparatus to power a ballista need not be.made of plant-fiber rope, either. Wet, twisted uncured animal skins would do just fine. Plus, using the skins for that would not eliminate their later usefullness to be tanned and made into other useful things. Cats are hunters and would have no adversion to using leather.
One of my private dreams is to have enough time to build a ballista patterned after a Chinese repeating crossbow. There are written records of the ancient Greeks having them, but no drawings or preserved artifacts, so most historians are skeptical.
ballista https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/000237/617/XU/medieval-ballista-3d-model_D.jpg
we actually have a Ballista like this in our sword group..
catapult https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpreviews.123rf.com%2Fimages%2Fgrigoriy123%2Fgrigoriy1231812%2Fgrigoriy123181200283%2F113481394-a-wooden-ballistic-device-of-a-medieval-catapult-ancient-military-equipment-in-the-castle-of-st-ange.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.123rf.com%2Fphoto_113481394_a-wooden-ballistic-device-of-a-medieval-catapult-ancient-military-equipment-in-the-castle-of-st-ange.html&tbnid=eGPJogBYypp6AM&vet=12ahUKEwje3KT6z6TwAhXRm54KHcbiBeUQMygDegUIARCTAg..i&docid=QGnMiAoWXVHapM&w=1300&h=867&q=medieval%20catapult&ved=2ahUKEwje3KT6z6TwAhXRm54KHcbiBeUQMygDegUIARCTAg
trebuchet https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSk-4OLZCTWIMXcgEijShNEzagQqjwGvkWWcs3GtUVnGDGc0KlVPYyTWEzS_4GNqn61w-U&usqp=CAU
Rob, did you know they had a trebuchet variation which used people as the counterweight? There were platforms on each side and the guys would grab handles on the end of the throwing arm and pull it down with their own weight. There were also versions which used ropes for the guys on the counterweight teams to pull down. They didn’t have the same throw weight or range of the bigger models but it meant that the engineers didn’t have to haul.around or scrounge those big rocks. They also would’ve been easier to cock in preparation for a shot since there would be no counterweight. A big, boulder counterweighted trebuchet was pretty much the acme of pre-gun powder artillery. It must’ve been terrifying to be under seige and hear the whipcrack whoosh of one on those beasts going off. From watching punkin-chunkin contests on TV it’s clear that the sound of one of those things being fired would reach the defenders on the walls long before the projectile did.
hence the “in my sword group.” yes , and it came first (called a Mangonel.), an was brought to Europe , where they made it bigger an added a counterweight ..
Oops. Sorry. Failed to realize the implications of “sword group”. As the Japanese would say ” Tsure shimasu”.
Dame desu Bill-san. 🙂
Did the meeting with King T’Chaka happen between panels 2 and 3 of #768? I thought it was still ahead of us. Or are Ace and Shawn in town to pick up the promised provisions? Either way, when did they have time to play the camera’s memory? If the first, I would assume they were in the room when T’Chaka saw it, and we just haven’t been told how that went yet.
And I repeat my opinion: the kerosene fire may have seemed horrific, but compared to dying of slow impalement it was merciful. Seared trachea and sinuses suffocate you quickly by comparison. Just like death by suffocation from crucifixion is sped up by breaking the victim’s legs.
In short? Donte took the camera to Jackson and turned it over to Sheriff Ace, who watched it
and then returned with Donte to have a word with the townsfolk.
Because of the Legion’s message. More later.
and no one.?? the movie playing at the theater… or the potted plant…
I should have removed a few letters to make it look neglected.
Or changed it to read “SHAFT”