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In order to get smooth faces I needed to figure out a way to create what it's called 3 point gradients. I took a look at the usual Flash 3D engines and what was my surprise when I found out that they tend to be limited to just 1 light (correct me if I'm wrong). This is probably because by supporting 1 light they just needed to create a light map per material.
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Sleeping Tricks - Effective Techniques For Falling Asleep
Do you struggle to fall asleep? Well, take comfort in knowing that you are not alone. Sometimes the events of the day or preoccupying thoughts can hinder us to where we toss and turn, adjusting our pillow while trying to find a way to drift off. We essentially become victims to our own mind and these mental barriers block us from easily entering into a peaceful night's sleep. The purpose of this web site is to provide you with effective ways to lull your mind into a state of slumber.FREE Woodworking Plans & Furniture Projects :: 9000+ Available!
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Modern Industrial Design and Future Technology - Tuvie
The concept is very simple. Koishi planter pot monitors the activity within a plant and transforms it into an audio-visual improvisational performance. We can't talk to plants but interacting is different. It's nice to put a plant in the limelight for a change. The music played through the pot is produced instantaneously.
The game of chess calls for shrewd analytical skills of positions coupled with calculations to gain control over the game. It is essential that good positional play should be entwined with calculations of moves and deployment of effective tactics assessing the overall position in the board. Having good control over the board positionally will not guarantee you any success over the opponent as long as you do not entwine the tactics effectively to gain control over the board. It is in this context that one should strive to be a good allround player instead of concentrating either only on his tactical skills or in positional factors. In the following example, you will notice that having good positions will not lead to success as one silly error caused without giving importance to the opponent’s pieces, and due to paucity of time, ended up in losing the game from the winning position.
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Anxiety Culture: Intro
Anxiety Culture is a webzine with a wealth of ideas & gimmicks for navigating the crazy, paranoid, work-obsessed, media-crapulent times we live in. We have a VAST, intoxicating mixture of outsider psychology, satire, anti-work philosophy, anti-establishment rants, graphic propaganda and underground news...
Stellarium 0.11.2 is a stable version that introduces some new features and closes 47 bug and wishlist reports. A lot of work has been done on making translatable text that wasn't localized before. This includes most of the text used by the default plug-ins, landscapes, countries, script names and descriptions.
Stellarium
Sticky Notes for the Web
Sticky Notes for Web Pages MyStickies, a web-based application created by Jacob Wright and Derek Andriesian, gives you the ability to put a sticky note on any web page your browser can visit. When you come back to the page, your sticky note is still there, where you left it. This enables us to remember what was important about the page to us.SayCampusLife: Campus News, Sports and Events
The education you need to become an automotive service technician. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual pay for automotive service technicians and mechanics was $35,790 per year as of 2010. Many …
In just under a month we'll be seeing Robert Downey Jr. delivering some vigilante justice as Iron Man in The Avengers , but a new project will have him dealing directly with the law instead. Deadline has word Warner Bros. is developing The Judge with the aforementioned actor producing through his Team Downey banner and David Dobkin directing. Bill Dubuque (an up and coming writer with projects like The Accountant and The Headhunter's Calling in development) is scripting the story about a big-city lawyer who returns home after the death of his mother to learn his estranged father, a judge, is suspected of murder.
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We received an email about a new book that has recently been published called 50 US Architects: Residential + Planning. The author, Damir Sinovcic, sent along some info and fab-u-lous photos. This beautifully illustrated, 11" by 11" volume presents a curated collection of exceptional residential and master planning work from leading American designers. Meticulously detailed and site-specific, the featured projects focus on sustainability, technology, and the human spirit.
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In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books by David Streitfeld, New York Times , March 3, 2012. Article about Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive : "With a deep dedication to traditional printing - one of his sons is named Caslon, after the 18th-century type designer - he abhorred the notion of throwing out a book once it had been scanned.
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Brings you all the latest soundtracks, songs and music from the movies. Not only that, but we dedicate our efforts to add scene and time descriptions to every song, making it easy to find any song you may have heard. Our site is currently undergoing some major changes, and will be up and running to its full potential shortly. Look forward to an improved layout, music samples, and user contribution.
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LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING AND PREDICTIONS
EUROPE’S ATV-3 SPACE FREIGHTER ADJUSTS SPACE STATION ORBIT - Europe’s ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station’s orbit on Sunday, the Mission Control said. Two main engines of ATV-3 were switched on at 1:54 Moscow time on Sunday [21:54 GMT on Saturday] to raise the International Space Station (ISS) orbit by 1.7 km, to 389.8 km. "Engines of Europe’s ATV-3 spacecraft remained switched on for 411 seconds (almost seven minutes), giving the ISS an additional acceleration of one meter per second,” the source said. More ( Source: RIA Novosti ) SOVIET WEATHER SATELLITE FALLS IN ANTARCTICA - Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said.The Society Pages
We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Sociology Lens is the associated site for Sociology Compass , Wiley-Blackwell’s review journal on all fields sociological.Help