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Regular readers of my blog will know that I have recently started teaching myself 3D modelling. Very excitedly, yesterday, I showed a master modeler acquaintance the two heads I have modeled (previous posts). This guy is AMAZING, he is really very good. Do you know what he told me? He told me that my models are ok for a start, but my topology is all wrong and there are certain rules that one needs to follow when modeling heads, and studying some tutorials might help me. That took the wind out of my sails! But actually, I love that. It is true – my topology is all wrong and my modeling is terrible bad. That kind of thing is actually the wind in my sails, the force that drives me. Someone telling my that, well honestly, my work is not that good at all – that inspires me to rectify the problem, to learn more – to become good. Thank you for the honesty.

There is a lesson to be learnt – deluding yourself is setting yourself back. Even if it feels good.

Ciao.

This is the second head I have modeled. It is not complete yet, but I thought I’d show the progress. Not very good, eh? Well, I will get better the more I practice!

Also something noteworthy, today I am sending a package to Lorena, my girlfriend in Romania. I think it is a very nice package! I hope she likes it.

Here is a screenshot of my work-in-progress robot/cybernetic organism that I am modelling in 3DS MAX.

No cool details yet – but they are coming…

I am extremely excited about recent advances in computer hardware. In software, almost everything is possible. But hardware has always been, and will probably always be, a bottleneck. An old 386 PC can only do so much and not more. A Quad-core can similarly only do so much, and not more. But the amazing power of non-integrated graphics cards has spawned a new idea – non-integrated general purpose processing cards. I am referring to technologies like Nvidia’s CUDA – Compute Unified Device Architecture. This is some seriously exciting stuff for my Artificial General Intelligence work. CUDA processors natively support multiple simultaneous threads on specialized hardware, making PCs powerful computing machines.

The ‘others’ are coming. Who are the others? They are intelligent, conscious machines.

First, the name was Abstraction Developer. Then it was System Modelling Studio. Then it was System Modelling Environment. Now it is just System Modeller. The only thing that is constant is the Range name of my flagship software release; Lorena. Hey, I cannot promise that the name will not change again. But I can promise that, when my software is done, it will be something to be reckoned with. Below is the newest screenshot.

I just registered for the free Xceed DataGrid for WPF, and there’s only 10 days left to do it. http://xceed.com/freegrid

Ich Will…