ORIGINAL: wodin
Again...did Quasi get awzy????!!
Quazi and Ezmarelda are reported as being safe and sound in the Cayman Islands. Apparently they took the hump and moved out years ago. [;)]
Cheers
Jev
Moderator: maddog986
ORIGINAL: wodin
Again...did Quasi get awzy????!!
Washington (AFP) - At Vassar College in the United States, a university team gathered the week before the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris to plan an ambitious project: inventorying about a terabyte of 3-D modeling data of the famed Gothic masterpiece.
The precious data is the work of Andrew Tallon, a Francophile American art professor who loved medieval architecture and was passionate about Gothic cathedrals. He died in November.
His technique was nothing new, but his application of the tools was innovative. In 2011 and 2012, funded by a foundation, Tallon used a laser device to accurately measure the interior and exterior of the cathedral, which was ravaged by flames this week.
He placed the device in about 50 places to measure the distance between each wall and pillar, recess, statue or other form -- and to record all the imperfections intrinsic to any centuries-old monument.
The result is over a billion points in the "point cloud." The final computer-generated images reconstruct the cathedral down to the smallest detail, including its tiny defects, with a precision of about five millimeters (0.1 inches).
ORIGINAL: Orm
Why one, or the other? Why not aim to do both?
When did we ever let that stop us? <sigh>ORIGINAL: VPaulus
Guys, please stay on topic...
I am sorry as well. I did understand your premise. I just wanted to say that I want the humanity to strive to be better. That every year should be better than the last. Perhaps what I want us to strive for is impossible. But, if we all decide to stride for the impossible, then we have the capacity to make the impossible possible. And I want to remind you that when a great nation decided to put a man on the moon they did so. So, yes, when we all want to do something badly enough we can do it.ORIGINAL: GaryChildress
ORIGINAL: Orm
Why one, or the other? Why not aim to do both?
Sorry, was just idle curiosity wondering which would be more important if it came down to either/or. IRL, I'm sure both can and will be done.
ORIGINAL: Orm
I am sorry as well. I did understand your premise. I just wanted to say that I want the humanity to strive to be better. That every year should be better than the last. Perhaps what I want us to strive for is impossible. But, if we all decide to stride for the impossible, then we have the capacity to make the impossible possible. And I want to remind you that when a great nation decided to put a man on the moon they did so. So, yes, when we all want to do something badly enough we can do it.ORIGINAL: GaryChildress
ORIGINAL: Orm
Why one, or the other? Why not aim to do both?
Sorry, was just idle curiosity wondering which would be more important if it came down to either/or. IRL, I'm sure both can and will be done.
Anyway. I am truly sorry.
And sorry for getting preachy. [:D]