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| | 7:23 pmMarch 8, 2010
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Do you guys have any instant message programs? AIM: travisnylund |  | 
| | 12:32 amMarch 9, 2010
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Elleo said: I've started having a look into converting the sketchup models to povray format (povray is a high quality ray tracer), for the purposes of trying to produce some high quality renders (and possibly simple animations at a later stage). You can see my first stab at it here: http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/com…..module.png The next stages on this would be producing some higher quality/more interesting material textures, then probably introducing a particle system to give the appearance of the booster firing. I just chose this model as a starting point to fiddle around with, if there's one that people feel would be a better/higher priority one to focus on I'll be happy to switch to doing that one instead.
 
 I'm interested in what you come up with as I'd like to build a few promo videos for the organization and the CLLARE/OHKLA projects.  I'd love to see any renderings or animations you're working on as they'd surely make great additions to the videos.  Shoot me an email/pm and we can discuss some ideas if you'd like. |  | 
| | 5:20 amMarch 9, 2010
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Luke Maurits said: I don't know where rpulkrabek has gone, but he is usually around more often than this, too.  
 
 I am here. I have been actively reading my RSS reader to following what's happening. I have been really quite busy with work and other things to actually contribute, but hopefully soon I can. My thoughts of where I will proceed are more with the OHKLA design, such as determining what diameter and lengths to use and then the nozzle geometry. Also, I plan on adding to the design process with tools such as a Pugh Matrix and Morphological chart from given design objectives and constraints. More to come… |  | 
| | 10:14 amMarch 9, 2010
 |  | Elleo
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tnylund said: Do you guys have any instant message programs? AIM: travisnylund
 
 A number of us hang out in #cstart on irc.freenode.net, if you're not familiar with IRC you can use freenode's webclient at http://webchat.freenode.net just type #cstart where it says "Channels"/p>
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