Comments on: Fish Population Data Visualisation, Internships at Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver

By: manu

manu — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:00:35 +0000

@Stephen Danic

I am very interested in this project but the birds are killing me too. Could you please take another 20 minutes and do another voiceover for the video without the birds? I am sure you simply dont hear them anymore but others do. :p

By: BrianH

BrianH — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:41:41 +0000

It's very interesting to read about, but I had to shut off the video tutorial after about 3 minutes of wanting to kill the birds in the background.

By: ysvry

ysvry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:13:51 +0000

great tool, but there will always be unknown variables that make this simulations as good as guesswork. Visiualizing it in 3d will (maybe) give a falls sence of reality that isnt realy there.
good tool for manipulating voters and the like for sure. :P
if you convince your profs to invest some money into improving blenders simulation capabilities thats fine with me. what about a car simulation to solve suburban congestion?
just my 2 cnts.

By: Stephen Danic

Stephen Danic — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:49:00 +0000

@myselfhimself

We do realize that it's not a perfect product. That's why we're still working on it.

If we seem too proud in print, it might be a hint of PR spin.
If we seem too proud in the presentation, it might be that we were really nervous presenting to a room full of people. Maybe the shtick was over the top as well.
If the showcase video sucks, you can blame me. I didn't really edit it like I should have. I should learn from Chris. :)

In any case, I'd love to hear what/how we should improve. That's how we learn.

Keep in mind that it's realtime, not rendered.

By: ByronK

ByronK — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:50:16 +0000

Very good to see that Blender can even help out with the environment

By: myselfhimself

myselfhimself — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:53:51 +0000

Hi
I don't like the way the showcase video presentation was done.
People there seem too proud of it.

By: Stephen Danic

Stephen Danic — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:57:36 +0000

Sorry about the birds in the tutorial. Those are my pet budgies in the background.
Next time I'll record in a quieter place. :)

By: Vernoth

Vernoth — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:18:13 +0000

@Villy. I see… I just skipped through the text and the video and thought it was meant as alternative (to diagrams and stuff) data visualization for scientists etc. My bad.

By: zapwow

zapwow — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:57:28 +0000

Cool video… but those birds are freaking annoying!

By: waystar

waystar — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:37:35 +0000

That video tutorial is one of the best I've watched. So simple and straightforward, no steps performed too quickly, everything explained and repeated at an appropriate pace.