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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - Today at 03:41:02 AM

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Introductions / Re: Hello Again, Happy Atheist...

Last post by NoraCola - January 13, 2025, 03:36:56 PM

Hello

Was this yours?



It is a classic.

Not mine but a good one! I might have shared it before but I don't recall.

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Science / Re: A Big Dinosaur

Last post by zorkan - January 13, 2025, 03:26:43 PM

Which dinosaur had the biggest brain to body ratio making it the most intelligent perhaps?

"It's impossible for scientists to know for sure which dinosaurs was the smartest, but Troodon has the biggest brain-to-body ratio of any dino so far, which is one way scientists guess an animal's intelligence. Troodon was about as large as a fifth grader, and its brain was about the size of a golf ball."

Might be like Carl Sagan's idea about humans in his book Dragons of Eden.
 

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Introductions / Re: Hello Again, Happy Atheist...

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - January 13, 2025, 11:58:38 AM

Hello

Was this yours?



It is a classic.

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Introductions / Re: Hello Again, Happy Atheist...

Last post by Asmodean - January 13, 2025, 07:25:11 AM

Yeah, I'm pretty bad at textures. When doing it for fun, I tend to model heavy machinery and color it "factory new" construction-yard-yellow.

Still, lotsa' fun to get them hydraulic cylinders and what else have you to behave as they are expected when the moving parts move.

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Music / Re: Original Music and AI Expe...

Last post by Asmodean - January 13, 2025, 07:20:43 AM

All that said, musical critique isn't the intended topic of this thread. I asked if anyone else had created anything original they'd like to share. 

Well... The Asmo used to be in a band and wrote a couple of pieces of lyrics, though it's been a decade-or-so. I'll see if I can find something worth sharing.

As for your comment about the lyrical style, yes, it does make sense. When making an "anti-anthem," you may want to preserve the original "feel" of it as you see it.

[NoraCola]

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Music / Re: Original Music and AI Expe...

Last post by NoraCola - January 12, 2025, 06:27:28 PM

I don't have anything to present, but I liked your song, NoraCola!

Thank you!

[The Art and things we've made]

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Introductions / Re: Hello Again, Happy Atheist...

Last post by NoraCola - January 12, 2025, 06:27:02 PM

Hi Nora and welcome. Your mentioning 3D models caught my interest and I would like to know more about your process. I spend a lot of my time making sculptures from 3D models that I create in Rhino 3D software. That, with other art-related things like painting, takes up so much of my time that I don't post too much here, apart from an occasional update in the The Art and things we've made thread, where I encourage you to show your work as well and tell us about your work flow. Here is the link:

https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,14266.360.html

I would be happy to, except I only created stuff to use in Open Sim (with an eye to eventually opening a store in Second Life) to augment my builds in those worlds, which I've since decided to back away from in favor of other expensive creative pursuits (mainly music). Some of it can still be seen in ZetaWorlds at a region called Banarnia until the end of this billing cycle, as I've canceled my region and it will be deleted after that.

I'm actually pretty sad about calling a premature end to this project & don't feel inclined to document it with in-world photos or videos but others are welcome to if interested.


Anyway, I was never that good at it; I only made really basic things in Blender and never got the hang of making detailed textures in GIMP.

[The Art and things we've made]

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Introductions / Re: Hello Again, Happy Atheist...

Last post by hermes2015 - January 12, 2025, 04:51:23 AM

... I have lots of time for making 3D mesh models and all that. I'm not especially good or talented at any of it but I have fun. In a way it all ties together as an art performance about unreality vs reality, life as simulation, lived experience vs vague suspicion, etc...

Hi Nora and welcome. Your mentioning 3D models caught my interest and I would like to know more about your process. I spend a lot of my time making sculptures from 3D models that I create in Rhino 3D software. That, with other art-related things like painting, takes up so much of my time that I don't post too much here, apart from an occasional update in the The Art and things we've made thread, where I encourage you to show your work as well and tell us about your work flow. Here is the link:

https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,14266.360.html

[NoraCola]

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Music / Re: Original Music and AI Expe...

Last post by Recusant - January 12, 2025, 02:04:26 AM

I don't have anything to present, but I liked your song, NoraCola!