dream of small burningman like party, but much better done

Its day, and on streets of some small city, like cincinatii or something,
and the streets are replaced with grass mainly,
actually now that I think about it its near the mountains
and there is a giant party going on,
but without techno or much amplification
and i'm walking with my cousin
and we see a house floating around up in the air
being flown by people, with a sign
that says the hat house because its a little house
they park on top of tall buildings and drink and party
and we walk around and
see camps but everything is quieter and calmer and much smaller camps farther apart
and come night we walk by the flying house camp
and sign up and are going to ride on it in a bit
and while waiting we see neko case
and I say hi and we hug and she walks with us
holding hands and then we go to the house for the launch
and she can't fly and has to go elsewhere,
but the house is gone at night
and its a giant wooden sled thing made of giant beams
mmaybe 30 feet long and 20 wide and it slides down a ramp
and slowly shoots into the air and floats around and they steer it
and its beautiful with the dark dark sky and the stars above

the next day/later i look at how it works and it has
giant tanks that spray super cold stuff and that makes it fly.

more walking, looking for neko
talking with people.


upon awaking I realize the book ive been reading speaks of high tech
anti-gravity nanotechnology.

n

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"Science is a Differential Equation.  Religion is a Boundry Condition."   - A. Turing

Makin cookies.

Steam engines in michigan

Ring

Fireworks box.

What does it mean?  Banjo playing rabbit under an amanita.  Dancing elf?  Pink thing playing sax?

On The Substantiation of Downloaded Things

So, today I feel I made a breakthrough in the world of printing things.
I've realized that there is a world of people out there that spend hours upon hours making very very very accurate 3d objects for use in animations etc. And they are printable.

Yes, it takes a bit of tweaking but with a basic path of,

Download somebody's 3d object (in poser, or obj or whatever) that they made to make
some game or something better or maybe just for fun and a dream of fame and riches

Load it into blender (for poser things you need extra scripts but they are also out there
for free somewhere)

Clean it up if you want,

Export as a .stl

Import it into netfabb studio (also free in basic mode) and make it all manifold and shit, put it on the xy plane, resize it to make you happy, and save it back as an .stl

Open with skeinforge and slice it up (for those who don't do this often, this is the evil-scripting demon that figures out tool-paths for the print head as well as the codes to turn it off and on, temp speed, basically tells the machine what to do)

Save that puppy and then load it into ReplicatorG (the printer controller) and press print.

And some amount of time later you get something that sorta kinda looks like you thought.

Now go back to blender, clean it up more, try some different skeinforge settings, maybe play some different music in the background to keep it calm and go boy go.


Now the next question is....

what are the copyright issues around printing someone's graphics?

If they say I can use them for any non-commercial purpose I guess that means I can print them. But I suspect they'd be a bit baffled by them getting used for something that they didn't even think possible.

This is a very interesting time to be alive.

Very interesting indeed.

-nat

Cleaned up a bit.

Still feeling cool.