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SonicAgamemnon said:
With this card, 3D render times are good-- no more temptation to pick up a book and start reading while waiting, etc.
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What program do you have that utilizes graphics hardware in rendering 3d scenes. I want to get this! :eek:
 
corebreach said:
What program do you have that utilizes graphics hardware in rendering 3d scenes. I want to get this! :eek:
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For sheer performance, I like the 3D engine in Gelato 1.1, which is a GPU-accelerated renderer from NVIDIA. You need to know Python and/or C++ to work effectively with Gelato, however. Regardless, this is slick stuff that originally came from Exluna, who had a nasty battle with Pixar a few years ago. NVIDIA has this code now and they have optimized it for Quadro FX hardware. If you have Quadro hardware, Gelato really helps render Maya (my main 3D tool) models faster, around a 30% improvement in most situations, although the impact isn't quite as dramatic with liquid content, but everything else including light-particle and the new displacement content renders quickly.

Here is a screen shot of one of the big Gelato examples, rendered in 9 seconds on my workstation, using less than 50% CPU utilization while I burned a DVD and watched Cable TV!



If you want to evaluate Gelato, it is available here:

http://film.nvidia.com/page/gelato.html

An evaluation version of Maya is also available. There is a Gelato plug-in for Maya that renders my models about a third faster than the standard Maya engine, so there are definate Quadro FX floating-point enhancements in Gelato...
 
did some rearranging today and managed to turn my rectangle desk into an "L" desk by moving the drawyers to the side, the result was a bunch more deskspace and nice looking new work space

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compslckr said:
did some rearranging today and managed to turn my rectangle desk into an "L" desk by moving the drawyers to the side, the result was a bunch more deskspace and nice looking new work space

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Whatcha rippin' ? :)
 
trixare4kidz8 said:
^^is that a v551 phone?


and lol. i had the printer ;x it was the worst printer evar.
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yeah thats v551, i have the same phone. i like it a lot
 
yeah, its the v551, and at the time i was ripping either ghost in the shell 2 or cowboy bebop, don't remember exactly which one.

and yes, that printer is horriable. it makes all kinds of bad clicking/grinding noises, feeds the paper wrong, uses way more ink than it should, has cartrages that cost more than the damn printer, has annoying "talking drivers" (printing started...) just does not work half the time........

i am in the market for a decent cheap lazer
 
compslckr said:
yeah, its the v551, and at the time i was ripping either ghost in the shell 2 or cowboy bebop, don't remember exactly which one.

and yes, that printer is horriable. it makes all kinds of bad clicking/grinding noises, feeds the paper wrong, uses way more ink than it should, has cartrages that cost more than the damn printer, has annoying "talking drivers" (printing started...) just does not work half the time........

i am in the market for a decent cheap lazer
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My lexmark printer works well......it's nothing special, and I thought it would kinda suck, but lo and behold, it doesn't! its the Lexmark z816...it prints photos well, and prints very fast as well. Paired with bright white paper, the normal finished draft quality looks very professional! When I do papers, though, I put everything on best quality and use the ultra bright white paper....it looks neato as can be. :) But, yeah, the damn "printing started" and "printing complete" is pretty annoying....though I like when it tells me when ink is getting low, because I rarely check that! :D
 
Everyone in here got a nice workstation. I'll post my once I get my fan controller and my extra dvd rom.
 
compslckr said:
yeah, its the v551, and at the time i was ripping either ghost in the shell 2 or cowboy bebop, don't remember exactly which one.

and yes, that printer is horriable. it makes all kinds of bad clicking/grinding noises, feeds the paper wrong, uses way more ink than it should, has cartrages that cost more than the damn printer, has annoying "talking drivers" (printing started...) just does not work half the time........

i am in the market for a decent cheap lazer
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That's GITS2 I'm pretty sure, as you can just make out Batou and his pony tail. I know a lot of people didn't like GITS2, but I loved the movie and the question it set forth: What is it to really be human?
 
your right, it was gits2, i did all 6 cowboy bebop before i did that. my room mate went home for the weekend and left all his anime behind, so i burned like 25 dvds this weekend
 
lucky SOB... I need to drive down to my local blockbuster tonight and pickup some cowboy bebop to burn.... There goes 15.00 of gas money....
 
Need to clean up the power cords and get a wireless mouse / keyboard.
Finally got my two monitor set up running. Gotta wait for my 17" LCD to arrive...That 15" CRT is FUGLY!
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compslckr said:
did some rearranging today and managed to turn my rectangle desk into an "L" desk by moving the drawyers to the side, the result was a bunch more deskspace and nice looking new work space

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Yeah.. that looks a lot cleaner... You can see where you took it apart on the left. lol.
 
lesman said:
My lexmark printer works well......it's nothing special, and I thought it would kinda suck, but lo and behold, it doesn't! its the Lexmark z816...it prints photos well, and prints very fast as well. Paired with bright white paper, the normal finished draft quality looks very professional! When I do papers, though, I put everything on best quality and use the ultra bright white paper....it looks neato as can be. :) But, yeah, the damn "printing started" and "printing complete" is pretty annoying....though I like when it tells me when ink is getting low, because I rarely check that! :D
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/me looks next to him and sees the printer.

What a POS. Everytime I need to buy new cartridges I just buy a new cheap printer.
 
GlobalFear said:
/me looks next to him and sees the printer.

What a POS. Everytime I need to buy new cartridges I just buy a new cheap printer.
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LOL, same here, cheaper to buy a new one, though I do refill the carts until the heads gum up.

Dr. X said:
jesus, bitmaps? whats wrong with you?
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At least they weren't mega-pixel or larger. Kind of neat to watch it draw in from bottom to top in Firefox.
 
Artluo100 said:
Hey man, loving the whole style and color, what kind of desk is that and the cabinet? Along with the pads on the wall? Did it all come in a set?
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The entire space is from Teknion, a Canadian office furniture manufacturer. The half-height wall units hide all the cables and provide easy access to several power source junctions. The storage cabinet is convenient and out of the way; I use it for most of my media and reference material. Since the Teknion design is modular, you can configure just about anything you want, any size/length, color, etc.

Here's another shot of the overhead cabinet; there's another "corner station" to the right...

 
Thats beautiful, man, love the color scheme (silver/black/coldness) How much was the desk? Is there a website to look at that on? I WANT that desk bad!
 
compslckr said:
yeah, its the v551, and at the time i was ripping either ghost in the shell 2 or cowboy bebop, don't remember exactly which one.

and yes, that printer is horriable. it makes all kinds of bad clicking/grinding noises, feeds the paper wrong, uses way more ink than it should, has cartrages that cost more than the damn printer, has annoying "talking drivers" (printing started...) just does not work half the time........

i am in the market for a decent cheap lazer
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That's ghost in the shell on your preview there. Not that I'd erm.. know...

And give me all your Bepop please :D
 
lesman said:
Thats beautiful, man, love the color scheme (silver/black/coldness) How much was the desk? Is there a website to look at that on? I WANT that desk bad!
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I purchased my Teknion desktop package for just about $1,500 seven years ago. The corner units are more expensive, but all of the other components are less so. Unfortunately, prices have gone up since my 1997 purchase. However, you can usually find used Teknion on eBay for half price. I have seen a bunch of liquidated stuff up for auction; it was especially intense a few years ago during the Internut Meltdown. Moreover, as many jobs continue to move overseas, some of the discarded office furniture eventually appears on eBay...
 
Updated my shit.


Moved some stuff around.


First pic is my desk.
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Then my corner, where clothes and extra comp parts, router, cable modem, ect ect are stored.
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Then finally, my entertainment stand.
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Needless to say...I rarely move from this area :D:D:D
 
DarkMonkey said:
Nice to see someone with a workstation almost as messy as mine :) props dude.
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Hey hey hey.

My desk isn't messy, infact those books are going in the entertainment stand tonight.


Everything AROUND the work station....Well, that is indeed rather messy :D ;)
 
Hey, komataguri, I like that neon guitar-shaped light....where'd ya get it from? :)
 
lesman said:
Hey, komataguri, I like that neon guitar-shaped light....where'd ya get it from? :)
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Got it for Christmas.

Speaking of which, I need to go get my Guitar restrung.
 
Heres my station
PC- Shuttle SN95G5, amd64 1.8ghz, 1gb Kingston Hyperx PC3200, 300gb Sata maxtor, 16dvdrw, Logitech 5.1 surround, Logitech MX100.

Desk from Ikea

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nice desk. i got the same one, even the same color and same extra shelves. the ones that are on the side, i put them 1 on each side and when i get new bookshelf speakers, they are going to be on those shelves. love this desk
 
Komataguri said:
Got it for Christmas.

Speaking of which, I need to go get my Guitar restrung.
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Me too...in fact I need to buy a new string...and tune it....I'm to lazy to tune it, so I just wait until it gets pretty damn annoying!
 
Simple_Simon said:
Are those Naruto books i see on the top right and is that Naruto: Narutimet Hero 2 on the PS2 on the top left?
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I don't know about the game.


But those are the Naruto Graphic novels.


I hope their imports, cause the American translation of the Manga is horrible. ABSOLUTELY horrible.
 
UltraJounin said:
Heres my station
PC- Shuttle SN95G5, amd64 1.8ghz, 1gb Kingston Hyperx PC3200, 300gb Sata maxtor, 16dvdrw, Logitech 5.1 surround, Logitech MX100.

Desk from Ikea

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Ben Wa Balls on your desk?
 
UltraJounin said:
Heres my station
PC- Shuttle SN95G5, amd64 1.8ghz, 1gb Kingston Hyperx PC3200, 300gb Sata maxtor, 16dvdrw, Logitech 5.1 surround, Logitech MX100.

Desk from Ikea

IMG_4884.JPG
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ON the left hand side mousepad, there is that thing with a red dot on it, what is that?
 
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