Jumped From Sculpt 3D to Blender – I’m Hooked

In the late 80s, most of the neighbourhood bitboys had an Amiga 1000 or 500. Some of us were interested in 3D rendering with Sculpt 3D or Imagine software.

Raytracing took a long time with a CPU running at 7.1 MHz and 1 MB of memory. So, I left the Amiga run its raytracing overnight – in the morning I would check how the picture turned out to be. Heh, I did not even have a hard disk, so I must have been a patient guy.

Now, I’m amazed about the quality of the open source Blender software. I added YafRay renderer, and I’m hooked. Check out those galleries…

An Inconvenient Truth – Too Important to Miss

Watched the Inconvenient Truth movie. I was surprised by how clearly and softly it carried its massively important message. I was expecting a sensationalistic blast, but got a delicate whisper instead.  

The movie is also a portrait of former Vice President Al Gore. He comes through as a scarred, caring man, learning from mistakes. Future votes will find their way to him. 

During watching the movie, we were heating our sauna. The temperature of our electrically powered stove was around 86 Celsius degrees for over an hour.

I’m still eager to know: what is the role of heat generated by stoves, car engines, factories, central heating systems, computers etc. in changing the global climate? Do they increase the temperature and make the wiggling red lines of the film go up? We took a sauna – did we cause a tiny part of a glacier to melt?

[25.05.2009] Watched The Great Global Warming Swindle and felt totally betrayed.