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BryceTalk Terrain Talk
August 5, 1999
Part 5 of 5
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BryceTalk Terrain Talk, August 5, 01999
Part 5

ccasady: I have a sample of the map top show you

Muffinman: Goodbye/

Okay.

renato!: bye

Clay: cya

Steve Lareau: all I want to know is: who's Janie, hmmmmm?

Meta AuntiAlias: janie: excellent VR photographer!

ccasady: first let me say that you can obtain these maps of YOUR neighborhood

Steve Lareau: it must have been tedious to locate things in this shot!

Muffinman: Wow!!

My neighborhood...

3d~?~elf: got a linkbone to throw at us chris?

ccasady: yes, jannies is our frined, the matron of vrview.com

Muffinman: No, I do NOT need that kind of power.

Douglas: (I live in Kansas FLAT)

ccasady: yea

Heather: This has been extremely interesting. Thanks. But 12:35 here - must go. Bye

Muffinman: Goodbye.

Steve Lareau: ahh, another east coaster!

ccasady: http://www.tilenut.com/Whitley/9.jpg

Muffinman: whoa

angler: ya me too thinks for everything see ya next time

ccasady: This is a screen grab of the photoshop document being made

Douglas: you got all that from that map!?

Muffinman: that's weird, how do you get a 3d image out of that?

ccasady: by everybody, I don't blame you for leaving!

Douglas: look at the edges...

Muffinman: lol

ccasady: see the greys?

3d~?~elf: yup

Muffinman: Yeah i know, topographical.

Meta AuntiAlias: grayscale to height!

camel: Yup lines.

Douglas: it had trouble with the highways tho huh

3d~?~elf: how many greys are those?

Meta AuntiAlias: Chris.. you're one sick puppy (meant as a high compliment, of course!!) :D :D :D

ccasady: for each topo line (20 feet) I make a new layer in Photoshop

Steve Lareau: You guys should see the DEMS for THIS area of Tennessee- so convolted it looks like a zoom of a brain!

ccasady: I know, I'm nuts ,

Douglas: but very cool CCasady

Muffinman: But that image...

ccasady: I read the feet on the map....

Meta AuntiAlias: just thought of a cool way to do blends of the different height levels....

Muffinman: How did you texture the city from that?

ccasady: The higest is 800 feet, the lowest is 500 feet

...above sea level.

This is Hollywwod

Muffinman: Really?

Muffinman: Do you live in LA?

ccasady: The Hollywood Bowl is in the lower left cornem

yes, it very close to hear

here

corner

Muffinman: Oh, I live in silicon valley.

ccasady: here

weel, guess what?

renato!: chris, those contours on the USGS map...

ccasady: The USGS makesw maps of your area too!

Muffinman: I want a dem so I can make a pic of me with a tac nuke launcher, frying certain corporations.

renato!: they're just lines, so you had to use bezier paths to create the grayscale areas, right?

ccasady: that's al on the web for easy dowloading, the DEMs

Muffinman: yes

ccasady: bezier would have been smart....

Douglas: how much time do you have in those mages?

ccasady: ...I hand painted it. Wacom.

renato!: ah

wow that sounds timeconsuming

Douglas: ouch

camel: Ouch!!

renato!: either way

Clay: sheesh

renato!: hats off

Meta AuntiAlias: [BTW... I've got a DEM BryceTalk session in the works.... need a person who uses DEMs on Windows platform to be part of the guest panel]

ccasady: it was, but joyous all the same

Douglas: no doubt

Steve Lareau: it'd be faster to lop silly putty on the map and scan it ya know....

Clay: LOL

ccasady: These are essentially hand painted DEMs

sily putty?

Steve Lareau: you ARE a glutton for punishment, aren't ya?

Don't tell me you don't know abut silly putty?

Clay: he doesn't use serious putty Chris:-)

Muffinman: Technically you could make silly putty models, take pictures of them, and convert them to 3d models...

ccasady: let me show you....

desdanova: leave him alone steve!

Steve Lareau: hehe!

Sorry....

Douglas: can I get a Whee?

Steve Lareau: Wheee!!!!!!!!

Clay: Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!

Muffinman: Wheeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

ccasady: I had to stop typing, I was laughing so hard...

Douglas: thx i needed that

ccasady: http://www.tilenut.com/Whitley/layers.gif

Steve Lareau: <- is wearing a silly putty G-string

Meta AuntiAlias: Help me out here, people! We need some whees! either that or we need a volunteer to climb inside o Steve's brain and rough him up a bit from the inside. 'you don't know about silly putty' indeed!

; )

Muffinman: My, that certainly alot of layers!!

ccasady: ya know how to make a linear grad in PS?

renato!: wheeeeee!

Muffinman: Wheeee!!!!

Meta AuntiAlias: wheeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeee!

3d~?~elf: :passin oil to steve, now:

camel: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

ccasady: WHHEEEEEIII!

Douglas: you guys are my heros

Muffinman: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Lareau: Toss me a freakin bone here people! Wheeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Douglas: LOL

Clay: whe

Meta AuntiAlias: bout that linear grad....

Muffinman: er, um, we?

Clay: dang

outta gas

ccasady: yes, a grad

camel: orwould that be OUI

Meta AuntiAlias: lol

Oooooouuuuuuuiiiiiii!!!!

renato!: heheheh

Douglas: haha

Clay: Clank!

Clay: DAMMNIT!

camel: chugg!!

renato!: silly, silly, much too silly...

Steve Lareau: Wow- now THAT one was conceptual!

ccasady: a set aside a strip on the left, I add 50 pixels to my document on the left and lay down a Grad(ation)

Clay: chugga chugga Whiiiiirrrrrrrr, dang wrong noise

Steve Lareau: Aunti- I'm impressed!

Meta AuntiAlias: :::dusts self off, listens to Chris with renewed attention:::: ahem!

Clay: :-)

(sorry Chris)

camel: :)

ccasady: then I subtract 500 feet from 800 feet and get 300 feet

no problem


 

 

Steve Lareau: <- Slips into something frilly, yet playful.....

Muffinman: ...

Clay: LOL!!!!

renato!: ======>8-0

Douglas: the math is the only part I can see me doing

Meta AuntiAlias: tri-centipedal gradation?

ccasady: I lay down a custom e ruler that reperesents the 300 feet stretched across the grad

Muffinman: lol

ccasady: exactly

Muffinman: Okay, I just got lost with the tri-somthingsomthing...

Steve Lareau: wow- I almost folowed that!

ccasady: so now my eyedropper can easily pick up the grey I need

Muffinman: Ahhhh!! My head hurts!!

Steve Lareau: yeah....

renato!: tri sesquipedalian?

ccasady: and I read the FEET, "I need a grey for 520 feet"

Steve Lareau: like a tripod, but different?

ccasady: so I get that geay and follow one line with it

Meta AuntiAlias: (tri-centipedal gradation. 1 centipede = 100 feet; 3 centipedes = 300 feet) . sorry

camel: Wait till tomarrow.

Muffinman: *Is lost*

Steve Lareau: Aunti LOL!

Meta AuntiAlias: it's a joke. really. oops! sorry!

renato!: I got it

Steve Lareau: That would be a cool multireplicated render! Get on it!

renato!: and I threw it back lol

george: centipedes? Terrains?

: )

ccasady: each line helps me draw the next because I set it to a low 20% to see thru it, and I can easily find the next contour line.

Muffinman: AHHHHH!!! MY HEAD HURTS!!

renato!: i c

camel: MM

ccasady: after that, you zen out and paint

renato!: thassa lotta work

you're a nut, tile

george: lol

Muffinman: ouch...

Clay: LOl

george: one might even say a tile-nut?

ccasady: but so little of my brain is needed once it's set up

Muffinman: my head hurts now...

renato!: one might...

camel: How many hrs?

ccasady: I can actually listen to the radio as I do it!

2 nights

Douglas: kills me how simple he can make it "sound"

Clay: I like shiny rocks Wheeeeeee!!!

Muffinman: Radio? MP3's for me.

I like cheese.

Wheeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

ccasady: www.soundjam.com

Clay: LOL

Meta AuntiAlias: :D

Steve Lareau: I like bright yellow cardboard...

george: I love your interface c!

ccasady: for the best MP3 player for the Mac

Meta AuntiAlias: with skins made from Bryce.. in Terrains, no less!

george: (and the neatest "retro" skin)

ccasady: you bet!

Steve Lareau: mmmmm... skins.....

Meta AuntiAlias: nice way to bring it back around...

Clay: mmmmm...Bryyyyyyce

Meta AuntiAlias: tho ya know.. it's gotten quite squirrly in here...

Steve Lareau: merry go round- wheee!

Muffinman: I use realjukebox.

ccasady: laying Skins over topo maps gives you several options.

I have 3 Ive used so far

renato!: robin casady? a relation?

ccasady: a brother

renato!: ah

Muffinman: Realjukebox rips cd's and plays mp3s.

Steve Lareau: Chris gets 5 gold stars for staying on track....

Muffinman: That's all i need.

camel: My sisters brothers wife.

ccasady: one could use the original TOPO maps to texture with....

Or, in one case, I scanned the Thomas Brothers map and fit it to the topo/terrain

Steve Lareau: what about Topo Gigio? How would he fit in with all of this?

Meta AuntiAlias: . . . . anything else you want to say Chris before all chaos breaks loose?

ccasady: but wouldn't we all like a color photo to map on top of our map?

Clay: LOL

Meta AuntiAlias: maybe it already has!

Steve Lareau: too late....

ccasady: yes, I have resources for all these things

Do any of you live in a major city?

Muffinman: Has the meeting desolved prettymuch yet?

Steve Lareau: I live in the hills of Tennessee....

Clay: I like to use Fonts for greyscales Chris, ever tried that? and if so do you like or not?

Muffinman: I like in redwood city california.

Meta AuntiAlias: resources as in URLs?

george: 15th largest in the states

Douglas: Bug Tussel

ccasady: Sorry Steve, that wont work

yea.

Steve Lareau: yeah, even DEMS are blank for this area!

ccasady: www.city-scenes.com

has most major cities

Meta AuntiAlias: cool!

george: neat!

Steve Lareau: Knoxville is the closest..

Meta AuntiAlias: cool for canoma, too!!!

ccasady: from here you can steal your overhead satelite photos

yes

Muffinman: Does anyone know where I can get a dem of nashville?

Clay: NASA has a site too like that

ccasady: do you know the URL of it?

Muffinman: Or microsoft headquarters?

Steve Lareau: this looks like some shots I've taken with my kite cam!

Muffinman: heh heh

ccasady: Steve, are YOU into kite cams???????

Meta AuntiAlias: Bryce : Links Menu: USGS site

Douglas: still want to Nuke Redmond Muffin?

ccasady: rite, of course

Steve Lareau: Dude- yeah, I was before I broke my neck.

Meta AuntiAlias: eeek!

Muffinman: No.

Not really.

ccasady: didn't know you broke your neck

Muffinman: BUT SAY GOODBYE TO MS HQ AND NASHVILLE!!

Steve Lareau: still have some monsyter custom Cody's int he garage.

ccasady: when was that?

Can I buy them from you? !!??!

Steve Lareau: 6 years ago- had it fused twice, and it's still collapsed.

Meta AuntiAlias: I think that, as this conversation veers off into new directions, I'm gonna call to a close the official logged chat portion.......

ccasady: darn! I'm so sorry.

one more thing Aunti

Steve Lareau: This is a one of a kink monster that took me 6 months to make- I would never sell this baby. But I DO want to get it up in te Smokies one day....

ccasady: 1-800-USA-MAPS will get you the place to order an index

Douglas: Well thanks Aunti/CCasady for all the info!!

Muffinman: I wanna make a bryce animation entitled "Microsoft gets nuked"

ccasady: That's it.

Meta AuntiAlias: thanks, Chris and everyone for being here.. and to Caly for additional information...

ccasady: yes, thanks all

 

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