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Comments: TS Speed model challenge # 10: "CALCULATOR"
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Comments: TS Speed model challenge # 10: "CALCULATOR" // Speed Model Challenge
Post by hemulin // Mar 18, 2007, 11:08am
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He beat both of us to it, I had an idea to do an abacus as well, but by the time I'd got the idea clear in my mind & knew how I wanted to go about it he'd already posted his.
You too.....wow......it would be abacus heaven (though slightly noisy and occasionally riotous ;)). |
Post by ProfessorKhaos // Mar 18, 2007, 11:32am
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lol. now I'm gonna have to come up with some kinda marble counter or something :)
Of course, there is the concept of actually modelling an ordinary calculator :) |
Post by hemulin // Mar 18, 2007, 11:39am
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lol. now I'm gonna have to come up with some kinda marble counter or something :)
Of course, there is the concept of actually modelling an ordinary calculator :)
What do you mean by ordinary though :rolleyes: |
Post by ProfessorKhaos // Mar 18, 2007, 12:04pm
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lol. Something you'd get for free opening a bank account I'd guess :) |
Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // Mar 18, 2007, 12:05pm
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He beat both of us to it
Me three, or is it now four? Abacus was the first thing that sprung to my mind. Back to the drawing board... :-)
Of course, there is the concept of actually modelling an ordinary calculator
pfft. :) |
Post by kena // Mar 18, 2007, 12:46pm
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You dont need to explain nothing.. ;)
But i want to know if you realy take this as a ofence?? :confused:
*IBRENT.. i told you :D
I've been around the internet so long that very little upsets me. I took your comment to be a genuine confusion, not a dig.
If you were being humoriuos, then I guess I accidently made the joke fall flat by answering the way I did. :D
To everyone else...
No, I didn't use a model, I did it from memory
and I'm glad I was "quick on the draw" because I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a second entry and have not succeeded.
I did spend 2.5 hours modeling a normal calculator, so I cannot put that one in. Maybe I will use it in one of my normal renderings. |
Post by prodigy // Mar 18, 2007, 12:47pm
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hehe.. i found this nice calculators.. maybe somebody find usesfull. :rolleyes:
NUCLEAR BOMB EFFECTS CALCULATOR (http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/poundh.jpg)
Mechanical Calculator (http://www.arm.ac.uk/history/instruments/Mechanical-calculator.jpg)
Pascal's calculator (http://laacz.lv/f/img/pc/01_pascaline_s.jpg)
another view (http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/slide16)
Another Calculator (http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/galleries/instrument/big/calculator.jpg)its most like a camera lens.. but is a calculator ;)
Hope that helps.... and if you dont like??? Dont useit.. :cool: |
Post by hemulin // Mar 18, 2007, 12:52pm
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Another Calculator (http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/galleries/instrument/big/calculator.jpg)its most like a camera lens.. but is a calculator ;)
Ooooh, that one looks just up my street prodigy |
Post by prodigy // Mar 18, 2007, 12:55pm
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Good.. :) i try to help others.. because im Finish my homework!! :D
MMM i think my wife have a gestation calculator.. :D
Seach in google my firends..
BTW The pascal's calculator looks incredible... |
Post by ProfessorKhaos // Mar 18, 2007, 5:05pm
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lol. Just don't divide a mechanical calculator by zero. Burns out the motor :)
True story! One of the engineers I work with was around back then and he did it. Said it just kept running and running... then broke! |
Post by kena // Mar 18, 2007, 7:47pm
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lol - after I posted that I had no other Ideas, I thought of that one, but since I cannot model organics that well, I figured I would just wait. Glad you thought of it to Steinie |
Post by Jack Edwards // Mar 19, 2007, 1:58am
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hmm.... mechanical calculator.... I think I have an idea... :D
Now to see if I can get it done in time!
-Jack. |
Post by Steinie // Mar 19, 2007, 3:36am
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Kena, I haven't used an Abacus since Third Grade so I'm not sure about this. Doesn't yours say 648890? I think you short changed a customer!
I still hear the clicking noises of those beads when we computed a math problem. To this day I still visualize those colorful beads of red, green, black, etc .
In College my instructor could beat the calculator with his slide rule on some equations. Nice entries.
My wife's "gestation calculator" must have been broke...I have 4 kids! |
Post by prodigy // Mar 19, 2007, 5:54am
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HEhehe... yep.. i have 2 kids and its enough for me... ;)
647890 -- 64 my lucky number - 78 the best edition of Corvette - 90....... ho yes... 9 my birthday.. and 0????????Who knows why i add that zero... :D |
Post by kena // Mar 19, 2007, 6:00am
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Kena, I haven't used an Abacus since Third Grade so I'm not sure about this. Doesn't yours say 648890? I think you short changed a customer!
I still hear the clicking noises of those beads when we computed a math problem. To this day I still visualize those colorful beads of red, green, black, etc .
In College my instructor could beat the calculator with his slide rule on some equations. Nice entries.
My wife's "gestation calculator" must have been broke...I have 4 kids!
ya know... you are correct... my dyslexia showing up again. :D |
Post by W!ZARD // Mar 19, 2007, 12:22pm
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Of course, there is the concept of actually modelling an ordinary calculator :)
LOL - You know that thought just simply would have never occured to me! I too was initially attracted by the idea of doing an abacus until I realised that a sliderule was also a calculater and WAAAY easier to model!
Oh by the way I did try to divide my sliderule by zero and I haven't seen it since - good thing they give away electronic calculators at the bank or I'd have to learn how to use Steinies calculator! |
Post by Morgan // Mar 19, 2007, 2:52pm
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I'm just amused by how many of us (myself included) thought "abacus". |
Post by W!ZARD // Mar 19, 2007, 6:39pm
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I'm just amused by how many of us (myself included) thought "abacus".
Yeah it's strange isn't it. Something just doesn't quite add up........ |
Post by hemulin // Mar 20, 2007, 3:06am
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Nice calculator wigmo. I see yours is trying to divide by zero too. |
Post by wigmo // Mar 20, 2007, 3:13am
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Ha, you assume it worked at all! ;-)
-Shawn |
Post by prodigy // Mar 20, 2007, 2:07pm
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Nice entry Hemu... :D |
Post by Steinie // Mar 20, 2007, 2:13pm
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I notice more and more renderings using 7.5. Has Roman said it is now ok? The suggestion was made long ago to start doing that and I'm glad it's happening. Nice rendering and modeling Hemulin. How did you do the card symbols on the keys? |
Post by splinters // Mar 20, 2007, 4:24pm
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Excellent work Hemulin, your skills have really come on since you joined the forum. Just what genius managed to teach you so well?
;) |
Post by hemulin // Mar 20, 2007, 11:05pm
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Nice rendering and modeling Hemulin. How did you do the card symbols on the keys?
Thanks Steinie, card symbols were modeled using nurbs curves that were swept. |
Post by Steinie // Mar 21, 2007, 7:41am
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Hey, where are all the entries? Just 6 or 7? Come on people show your stuff...
There HAS to be Astrological Calculators out there....right W!zard?
How about Stone Hedge?
Tarot Card Calculator?
http://www.themysticeye.com/images/tarotcalcscreenshot.gif
How about the "Hahn Calculator" ...WeaverIBM?
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/attic/attic_137.html
Nobody touched a Cash Register...
A golf Shot Distance Calculator...
WWof the W for your funny birds not you...
http://www.antiquemystique.com/pages/7368_jpg.htm
The Antikythera mechanism (Greek: O μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων transliterated as O mēchanismós tōn Antikythērōn) is believed by many to be an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to most computers today which are digital computers) designed to calculate astronomical positions
Just more ideas to get the creative juices flowing! |
Post by hemulin // Mar 21, 2007, 12:20pm
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Come on guys....need more entries.....please :( |
Post by Norm // Mar 21, 2007, 1:25pm
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yea or a brain object :D |
Post by Jack Edwards // Mar 21, 2007, 1:43pm
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Woot well if it's ok to do the speed challenge with the beta, that'll save me a ton of time. :D
I was under the impression that we had to use 7.11 for the challenges. :confused:
-Jack. |
Post by kena // Mar 21, 2007, 2:04pm
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I use 7.11since that is what I have. I dont' have the beta version though I dont' see any reason not to use it if you have permission beyond testing it. |
Post by Morgan // Mar 22, 2007, 6:23am
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Woot well if it's ok to do the speed challenge with the beta, that'll save me a ton of time. :D
I was under the impression that we had to use 7.11 for the challenges. :confused:
-Jack.
I believe any version is OK (as long as you have permission to use the beta for publically shown images, anyway). I've been using 4.3, so it's definitely not a case of 7.11 only. |
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