Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2017-07-02
| 14:58 | RainyDayRecess | Hi everybody ;) |
| 14:58 | Holly (hollydeni) | hi love |
| 14:59 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Rainy |
| 14:59 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | An Andrea chair and even an Andrea. (bows) to said Dean. |
| 15:00 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | greetings |
| 15:00 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Dean |
| 15:00 | RainyDayRecess | Hello Deans ;) |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Agatha (spindizzy) Macbeth. |
| 15:01 | Agatha Macbeth | Oh goody the seats are back |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The were away on a trip? |
| 15:01 | Agatha Macbeth | They vanished under the floor earlier |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Easy to fix. |
| 15:02 | Agatha Macbeth | Good for skating tho :p |
| 15:02 | RainyDayRecess | :D |
| 15:02 | Were All Mad Here whispers | mmmmm... hot coffee,. |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome all to this week's Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting. Transcripts of past sessions are available on our website. |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Phrynne, did you have anything to report this week? |
| 15:03 | Phrynne | Actually, yes, a little. |
| 15:03 | Phrynne | I've started moving the foliage and plants around for midsummer |
| 15:04 | Phrynne | and later summer |
| 15:04 | Phrynne | so you will see different colors of plants and some things that are not even daisies! |
| 15:04 | RainyDayRecess | Yay :D |
| 15:04 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | claps |
| 15:04 | Phrynne | And we also have water lilies floating in the notch on the west side of the region |
| 15:05 | Phrynne | I am continuing to look for plants and find interesting ways to modify Oxbridge as the seasons change. |
| 15:06 | Gronk Seriman | Phrynne's making the campus fun for just wandering again. The new grasses, flowers and little creatures are all lovely. |
| 15:06 | Holly (hollydeni) | it is pretty |
| 15:06 | Phrynne | Also, I've been at SL14B and, with Ember's help, have collected the LMs and names of a lot of places that I want to look at and maybe add to the G-Rated Regions notecard or a new one of assorted interesting places. |
| 15:06 | Phrynne | So I'll be visiting and evaluating them, with the help of one or more tutors, over the next while. |
| 15:07 | Phrynne | And that's it for now. |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea? |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | The Bowling fund raiser is set for the 19th of August. So put that on your calenders. The theme is owling, and swing music. A little trip back in time |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | *bowling |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | DJ Poppy will be our DJ. |
| 15:08 | RainyDayRecess | Yay, fun!! |
| 15:09 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Plan are to have a bowling competition earlier in the day. That is still under development. |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | More immediate events? |
| 15:10 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | There will be a 4th of July party on Tuesday night. starting at 6. Fireworks at 7. If you are in town. Drop in. The theme is ww2 era . |
| 15:10 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Notices in the ISC group and I'll drop it in the scholars later today |
| 15:10 | ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) | WOW - great idea |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Nice! |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Other than that not much. Been in RL a bit and stuff here in sl. |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Looks back at Wordsmith |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | HI kara. That's the spirit |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | It all helps to tie a community around Oxbridge. ty. |
| 15:11 | Kara2016 | Hugs Anrea. Tghank you. |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | YW kara |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | festive dresss |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Rainy, anything on sponsors? |
| 15:12 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty Kara. |
| 15:12 | RainyDayRecess | Nothing new, sorry |
| 15:13 | ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) | Are we supposed to wear masks of "The Donald" for te 4th of July celebrations? |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | no |
| 15:13 | ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) | good |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ww 2 |
| 15:13 | Holly (hollydeni) | *coughs* |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | era |
| 15:13 | Phrynne | Too political for Oxbridge |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | too political for me. |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | think |
| 15:13 | ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) | ok - so no masks neded |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | civilian garb fromthe 40's |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | or flight suits |
| 15:14 | ShaRa Ishtar (shannonraven) | excellent - TY |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | period pieces |
| 15:14 | Kara2016 | smiles brightly. |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | saw some affordable outfits on the mp |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | the build is a hanger |
| 15:14 | RainyDayRecess | Great idea too! |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and given the lack of supllies in the day. I have war time posters up |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So you have a number of "props"? |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | yes |
| 15:15 | RainyDayRecess | :D |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and a air control tower |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We are celebrating the country and it's birth. |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Sounds fun. |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Lets see. past week. Helped Tasha update the "Explore Caledon" posters, one by the lecture hall, and one at the end of the tutorial. |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The posters for "Explore the Steamlands" come next. |
| 15:17 | RainyDayRecess | It looks great |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Some tutors may get sent on a mission to check links etc. But that will come from Tasha. |
| 15:18 | Kara2016 | Exploring is fun. |
| 15:19 | RainyDayRecess | ;) it is |
| 15:19 | Gronk Seriman | Nice! |
| 15:19 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ooo like atomic robo? Do they need accidental death insurance? |
| 15:19 | Holly (hollydeni) | nods |
| 15:19 | RainyDayRecess | :D |
| 15:19 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Looks at Word. Are we covered on that? |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | About the time that Carl bowed out as Chancellor, Rainy had the horse and carriage finished. I'm finally looking at getting the animation data out of Blender and into an SL script. |
| 15:21 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nice |
| 15:21 | RainyDayRecess | Not a small task ;( |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Since accidental death only sends one home, I think it's okay. |
| 15:21 | RainyDayRecess | I didn't realize the scripting would be so much work |
| 15:22 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We have a Lazarus clause? |
| 15:22 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | cool |
| 15:23 | Kara2016 | 'and Seven Spanish Agles, took another angel home" |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As a sort of side project I've been playing with texture resynthesis; right now for something like stucco, based on creating a texture from a random sampling from a color distribution and then move individual pixels to create small scale structure. |
| 15:23 | Kara2016 | oops. |
| 15:24 | RainyDayRecess | Wow, that sounds interesting, like a seamless texture? |
| 15:25 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The scripting may not turn out to be that much work (horse again). One of the problems is keeping synchronization, but that's similar to what I've done before in massively parallel computing. |
| 15:25 | RainyDayRecess | Yeah, what you said ;D |
| 15:25 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The other is just getting the joint positions, locations, and lengths. |
| 15:25 | Kara2016 | Interesting. |
| 15:25 | Holly (hollydeni) | admires the skill |
| 15:25 | RainyDayRecess | Me too |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Which, since Rainy has done an animation in Blender are actually there, just need to capture them. |
| 15:26 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | RainyDayRecess gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other data sources are the original Muybridge photos from back when and a too expensive textbook on Equine Locomotion. |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | On the textures, yes, essentially seamless by using wrap-around in considering neighboring pixels. |
| 15:29 | RainyDayRecess | Ah, okay ty |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And the SL14B builds come down by the 5th, so last chance to view anything. |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | But, in playing with the textures, no pixels have been harmed. |
| 15:30 | Holly (hollydeni) | lol I harm them all the time |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Just relocated. |
| 15:30 | RainyDayRecess | (wow, great avi Andrea!) |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | There are, by the way, similar algorithms that work on a patch level (rather than pixel level) to synthesize more elaborate textures from a sample. |
| 15:31 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | :-) |
| 15:32 | RainyDayRecess | Like fractals? |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's my meander for the week. Open for more general questions on Oxbridge, SL, and beyond. |
| 15:33 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | If anyone would like to manage the Bowling contest. Let me know. |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Not exactly. Similarity between patches and they environment they are placed into. |
| 15:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No questions? Comments? Expressions of befuddlement? |
| 15:35 | Holly (hollydeni) | I stay befuddled |
| 15:35 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:35 | Holly (hollydeni) | lol |
| 15:35 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | is too busy |
| 15:36 | lovejoy2199 | Yes. Are they planning on explosing the cake? |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | in about 25 minutes |
| 15:37 | Phrynne | Sorry to interrupt, but RL has called me back. I hope to return. |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So, hearing nothing more, we stand adjourned. |
| 15:37 | Agatha Macbeth | Aww |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all. |
| 15:37 | Holly (hollydeni) | clapping for the deans |
| 15:37 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:37 | RainyDayRecess | Thank you Deans :D |
| 15:37 | Kara2016 | Thank you Deans and everyone. 15:38] Kara2016: very Cute, Andrea. |
| 15:38 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nods |
| 15:38 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | bye all, ate too much and need to rest., you too kara |
| 15:38 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So Andrea's been horsing around. ;) |
| 15:39 | Agatha Macbeth | Neigh |
| 15:39 | Kara2016 | laughing. |
| 15:39 | RainyDayRecess | Beautiful horse |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Looks at word. and Icily says....I am not a horse. looks for her sword |
| 15:39 | RainyDayRecess | or centaur? |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty rainy |
| 15:39 | RainyDayRecess | Uh, oh |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | :-) |
| 15:39 | Agatha Macbeth | Centaur of attraction |
| 15:40 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | at least he didn't call me horse lady |
| 15:40 | RainyDayRecess | Hahahaha |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Quadripeding around |
| 15:40 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | thatis what i ussually get |
| 15:40 | Kara2016 | laughing,. |
| 15:40 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | does no one read anymore |
| 15:40 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ? |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No, you don't sound hoarse at all. |
| 15:40 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and despite the tales of old, we are not barbarians |
| 15:40 | RainyDayRecess | :D |
| 15:40 | RainyDayRecess | wow |
| 15:41 | RainyDayRecess | Hun or Mongrel? |
| 15:41 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | was hercules trained by a barbarian. i think not |
| 15:41 | Kara2016 | If i were a sagitaurious, i would have more luck at love. |