vibrant luminance, originally uploaded by Torley.

Very cool shot of the Portal from Torley

Binary @ :: Triptych ::, originally uploaded by talia_tokugawa.

*grins* so worth a look if you get a chance

Princeton North :: Triptych :: 3 Parts :: Portal, originally uploaded by talia_tokugawa.

We I have managed to get some time away from SL5b I have been helping Poid out with her exhibition on Princeton North… this is part of my contribution to it

Sim that I am helping out Poid Mahovlich with. Helping her realise her artistic visions

I’d like to thank my parents.. my producer.. my director… *smirks*

seriously.. thank you to SLMen

I did actually know about this from a post that was on the forums and NWN before that led to this youtube video.

To actually get this running on your machine you need to goto the SVN for Second Life and download the files from the shadow Client directory. You can find more details on New World Notes. At the moment this is only a Linux and Windows feature.. and only for those that are happy with building their own viewers from source.
In terms of hardware it will require GeForce 8 or 9 Graphics cards.
I haven’t actually tried this myself and probably won’t bother till I can afford an upgrade to my 7600
And finally to really whet your whistles.. one final video… I am sure there are many others on youtube but these were the ones that I found first (in this last case) or found via the quoted references

[edit: Just notice on Twitter that Torley mentioned something about this in a vague way..

torley It won't be long until someone does this in Second Life: http://tinyurl.com/5u24et about 1 hour ago from web

/edit]

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CWWG Photo - Talia Tokugawa, originally uploaded by talia_tokugawa.

This is the final snapshot I did for the CWGC that raised the interesting query about 3.4 in the TOS. See… http://www.talia-tokugawa.co.uk/support-ticket-and-a-worrying-thought-about-tos/

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It really does make you wonder if LL should issue two versions of the TOS and most statements. One for your average person and another for lawyers and people with some understanding of legal speak.

Anyways.. My Support Ticket…

Hi I was looking for some clarification on the subject of using Snapshots for out of world purposes. In this specific case I have created a scene within Second Life to demonstrate a possible future for War memorials if the level of respect shown to them does not improve. Obviously due to the very nature of the subject I cannot dress up a war memorial in real life, as that in itself could be considered a show of disrespect. So I went ahead and created a small in world scene to demonstrate “what could be..” in order to take some snapshots…
It will be used by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is a non-profit making organisation. The picture will be used purely for educational purposes in schools, so that young people can get a glimpse of the possible future of war grave cemeteries. This, we hope, will spark off debate and alternative innovative suggestions.
It is to be used within a Power point presentation initially with possibly some machinima film if this is okay.
Now the potential stumbling block is in the TOS.
“3.4 Linden Lab licenses its textures and environmental content to you for your use in creating content in-world.
During any period in which your Account is active and in good standing, Linden Lab gives you permission to create still and/or moving media, for use only within the virtual world environment of the Service (”in-world”), which use or include the “textures” and/or “environmental content” that are both (a) created or owned by Linden Lab and (b) displayed by Linden Lab in-world. ”

Seeing that I created pretty much all the textures/objects in the scene except for the sky and some trees in the background, is this likely to be an issue? It does actually get me to thinking, how does this apply to a lot of things, for example, blogs, Flickr, external sales sites? Are the thousands of people that display images from within Second life outside the “Virtual World Environment”, myself included, breaking TOS by doing so? I do find this worrying as doing a search on Google images for “Secondlife” pulls up nearly 300k results and the same search on Flickr gets 375k.
Please can you clarify this clause for me.

I will post the snapshot I had in mind for this as another post after this one. Note that this snapshot is already on KoinUp and Flickr.

Now this whole thing could be my being overly paranoid about this as there are 1000’s of websites displaying content from within Second Life, there are many Lindens themselves with flickr account, personal sites, and Torley himself recently was a judge and part the prize on a competition for taking Windlight related snapshots on KoinUp, But having read the clause in the TOS over and over… I can’t see it meaning anything else.

I will post the reply to this when I get it.. (not holding my breath here).. right here on my blog.

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One of the small tweaks I’ve done to my client is to increase the precision that is displayed in the edit window for object position. The normal client only displays 3 digits of precision, while mine displays 5 (this makes me 1000× better at building, I think! Or else 0.001×… Hmm!). (If you want to change this yourself, just edit skins/xui/en-us/floater_tools.xml around lines 588-596. Just change where it says decimal_digits=”3″ to decimal_digits=”give me plenty plzkthx”! You can do it for size and rotation and other stuff, too!) [I changed it to 6 digits]

From http://jacek.meratalk.com

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Unfortunately it does not seem to be (or myHeritage only deals with celebrities and not their characters).

Most looks like Alexander Graham Bell… Well, not ideal but being linked to a famous inventor is no bad thing in my opinion.

Joint second.. Clint Eastwood and Cate Blanchett… not really sure where the Clint thing comes from… just going to have to smoke more ciggerettes than I do and ask everyone if the remember how many scripts I wrote and whether they (as punks) “feel lucky.”.

Cate Blanchett.. Reallllly not going to complain here *grins*

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