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Morning. Bright sunny blue sky day with just a breath of wind stirring the trees outside my window :)
Does anyone still make flip phones?
Yes, I saw at least one in the Verizon Wireless store last week. But the question is does anyone still make phones without a camera?
Dana
Haven't had a phone with a flip for 7 or 8 years :)
The skin looks pretty good for something you say is an old resource!
Dana
Only a colour map everything else is procedural :). The strategy is to cheat reflect from the skin at at least two intensities so the skin looks "naturally" shiny, so there is a back light cranked up three to five times the intensity of the light at the front. Could have used a fresnel shader as well but you take a time hit with those so is all specular with ks at about 180% :)
...I always liked the gate (portal) concept from Babylon5. Some ships in the series (the M'nbari, Vorlon, Shadows, and later the White Star fleet could open their own jump portal without a stationary gate.
Another type of self contained portal drive is the Slipstream system used my the Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) which uses an exotic matter lens to create an opening into what is called "slipstream" space.
Another concept is the classic "jump drive" concept postulated in C.J. Cherryh's "Compact" novels. In these stories what "V" (velocity) a ship enters jump space with it maintains when it exits and it must use it's drives to assist with breaking in what is termed a "V-Dump" after entering a new system. Jump performance (distance covered in a single jump) was restricted by a ship's power plant and drive capability. This basic concept was also used in the once popular Sci-Fi role play game Traveller.
I find these the best to skirt the issues of relativity and mass since theoretically, at 1 x C (Speed of light) mass increases infinitely therefore it would require an "infinite +" power boost to effectively "punch" a ship through the "light barrier" (similar to how a present day fighter jet needs afterburners to push through the transonic barrier and into supersonic flight).
In Joe Haldeman's Forever War they used a network of "collapsars" (collapsed stars) to propel a ship at near light velocity. The one hitch was relativity. Aging of the characters advanced much more slowly than that of the surrounding universe. Hence. after a jump of say, 100 light years that may have taken a few days for those on board the ship, another 100 years of "real time" passed in the outside universe.
And then there was the concept of "folding space" in Dune.
I have a Samsung Alias 2, which is a flip type phone. I prefer them...no pocket dialing with one of those!
Diane needs a new one, but she works on the base and they don't allow phones with cameras, for security. So either she gets one with no camera, or she gets one and has them disable the camera...which to me is a big waste of money.
Dana
I have a Samsung Alias 2, which is a flip type phone. I prefer them...no pocket dialing with one of those!
Diane needs a new one, but she works on the base and they don't allow phones with cameras, for security. So either she gets one with no camera, or she gets one and has them disable the camera...which to me is a big waste of money.
Dana
LOL!! tjohn you rock. There once was a show on The Science Channel that was all about real world items that were inspired by Star Trek. The Flip phone was one such item.
a wrinkle in time was folding based, ? read it lessee, like 40 years ago :)
val cameron has a hypnotic voice in the tutorials, very soothing, i feel relaxed.
follow-up on my comment about shoes: I discovered that I have pumps by dx30.
...well, you still have to make the runup to lightspeed for warp to engage properly which again invokes relativistic mass issues.
...I always liked the gate (portal) concept from Babylon5. Some ships in the series (the M'nbari, Vorlon, Shadows, and later the White Star fleet could open their own jump portal without a stationary gate.
Another type of self contained portal drive is the Slipstream system used my the Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) which uses an exotic matter lens to create an opening into what is called "slipstream" space.
Another concept is the classic "jump drive" concept postulated in C.J. Cherryh's "Compact" novels. In these stories what "V" (velocity) a ship enters jump space with it maintains when it exits and it must use it's drives to assist with breaking in what is termed a "V-Dump" after entering a new system. Jump performance (distance covered in a single jump) was restricted by a ship's power plant and drive capability. This basic concept was also used in the once popular Sci-Fi role play game Traveller.
I find these the best to skirt the issues of relativity and mass since theoretically, at 1 x C (Speed of light) mass increases infinitely therefore it would require an "infinite +" power boost to effectively "punch" a ship through the "light barrier" (similar to how a present day fighter jet needs afterburners to push through the transonic barrier and into supersonic flight).
In Joe Haldeman's Forever War they used a network of "collapsars" (collapsed stars) to propel a ship at near light velocity. The one hitch was relativity. Aging of the characters advanced much more slowly than that of the surrounding universe. Hence. after a jump of say, 100 light years that may have taken a few days for those on board the ship, another 100 years of "real time" passed in the outside universe.
And then there was the concept of "folding space" in Dune.
...true, however the way it as done was so unique to the particular story world it would be difficult to implement in another work.
I am so thirsty but I do not want to go to the kitchen right now to get water.
Getting dark early cos of the end of summer time, we should have a beach time zone where the sun never sets on the surf :)
Star Web by Joan Cox had a good travel concept. All locations form Star to Star has a pipeline of energy that could be matched and Traveled through like a river or flow. The Web speeds were relative so FTL, only later in the book was it learned the Web also touched not only Space but Time.
Hint: I love the Main characters given name...
Looking like you might need some moisturiser there Jade ;-).
Peter F Hamilton's various SF series suggest the use of "directed wormholes" for travelling between planets - to the point where "nexus" planets are like big train stations, and they run goods trains through the wormholes to other (settled) planets. The challenge is the first "opening" of the wormhole, of course, trying to get the "target" location stabilised/synchronised.
Philosophical aside - are there any "new" ideas under the sun? (`.`)>...
Looking like you might need some moisturiser there Jade ;-).
Peter F Hamilton's various SF series suggest the use of "directed wormholes" for travelling between planets - to the point where "nexus" planets are like big train stations, and they run goods trains through the wormholes to other (settled) planets. The challenge is the first "opening" of the wormhole, of course, trying to get the "target" location stabilised/synchronised.
Philosophical aside - are there any "new" ideas under the sun? (`.`)>...
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or where better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
Oh sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given admiring praise.
Intense procedural bump on this skin is maybe too much. Anyhoo another skin drop ps the skin is called Thomas
There were march madness rewards? :lol:
he looks great
he looks great
kind of an evolution of this, materials and light are endlessly interesting. Not using a specular channel, rolling my own into the diffuse channel old school :lol:
a rainy monday, thunderstorms rolling in.
i'm using crossroad corridors in my story for realm travel :) inspired by the movie 'crossroads' with Ralph 'karate kid'.
an amazing set of peepers he haz. :)
is it possible to consciously choose emotional crutches?
after my buppy i was compulsively playing playstation scrabble.
then it was march madness and coconut cream pie.
i want it to be my story characters and chai tea latte.
That looks amazing!
Dana
kind of an evolution of this, materials and light are endlessly interesting. Not using a specular channel, rolling my own into the diffuse channel old school :lol:
That's awesome, too!
Dana