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Darren Naish, Tetrapod PHD fires off a really interesting scientists view of the creatures of the planet Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

Best.     Movie.    Evar.

Two very helpful pieces of info that I learned in the past 24 hours:

Western Digital drives are preformatted with NTFS.  In order to install them on an Airport Extreme, you must first reformat them so they are writable by your mac clients.  Use Journaled (Extended).

A side note: Time Machine actually WILL work on the airport [...]

A really excellent interview with several of the concept designers for James Cameron’s new Avatar. Super cool to see that Wayne Barlowe was on the team!

Pat Watson and I are teaching a Maya Character Bootcamp this spring over at CSUMB.  Given this course outline (thank you Graffle), would you be interested in this class for $200?

There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.
VISICHUNK

Edit: I just found this cool little gadget on the Highrise site.  Very awesome.
NASA has been spending our tax dollars in some really interesting ways recently.  Apparently some engineer with a really good sense of design got control of the cameras on the cassini spacecraft recently with some really excellent results. Another spacecraft has [...]

Lot’s of talk back and forth about building planets and good ways of rendering them in the past few days.  Here’s the latest Earth render:

We got the maps from the Blue Marble site over at NASA but the shaders are still not right in my opinion.  Take a look at an actual shot of our [...]

We’ve been working on a lot of new stuff – totally unable to find time to upload.  Here’s a sample of some of the science-focused work we’ll  be doing in the next year:
Electron Micrograph look and feel.  This is spectacularly difficult to tune.
DNA Strand.

Mother Earth.  May she continue to bear our weight.

Cruising the net last night, looking for taxonomy graphs of Microbes, somehow I stumbled on this panorama site – totally cool shots of the VLT in Chile.  They look like spaceships…