On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Dennis Dryden wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:01, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:56:00AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-06-28 12:16:35 +0100 Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
outside UEA term time, but then there's not usually a large turnout of UEA undergrads at any time, is there?
If you could find some UEAers to promote it with a few well-placed notices and trying to spread the word on campus, possibly that could change?
I'm happy to put up notices but not many(if any) students will see them this time of year ;). Ill put up some posters/notices at the beginning of next year but I'm no good a designing them. Maybe if we had two types of poster one aimed at SYS/CMP people who want to know more about Linux and another one telling people there is an alternative to MS(get some non techy types). Also we should try and get something about ALUG into the newsletter(rabbit?) that every first year gets under there door.
Sounds like a plan, that man. Of course, the students not being there at the moment is a pain, but I'm sure that when they get back we might have some interest.
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I would like to see a Blender demo as i cant seem to get my head around how it works.
Ah, I never did figure the blender interface, so, erm, it might be nice if someone that knew about it could show us how it works. I played breifly a while back, but haven't touched it since (then, at the same time, I was writting some povray files by hand, too... much fun). Since then I've seen some more promising developments in the 3d market, not least of all K-3D (http://k3d.sf.net/) and aqsis (http://www.aqsis.com), which both seem to be nice projects. K-3Ds interface appears to be a lot simpler to use than blender and it comes with some rather nifty demonstrations. Aqsis is a rendering engine based on the Render Man specification, and seems to be rather good.
If there is anyone out there playing with this sort of stuff, bash up some notes, throw us a URL, or better still, make a presentation and come show us at the next kit meeting.
Dennis
Thanks,