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This picture may not be the discovery of the 20th century, but it is very interesting*. Anyway, this is simple game theory. It took five minutes to do, but it's implications are substantial. The game is such: you have an object. After a certain amount of time, the object turns into three objects (it has two children). A limit is that the children can be placed to the north, south, east or west of the object. The object only reproduces once. The children are objects as well, so after that same amount of time, they reproduce. This continues on until an object cannot have two children. As you see, I've iterated 5 generations. You see that there are two fifth generation children that can only have one child. The rest can have two children. This is a very interesting game because it has a definite end given the limitation that it ends when a child can only have one child. It ends at five generations. So the object model would be something like:
Scene 6 is on it's way to your doorstep. But this shows exactly how long you have to wait. The skin of the roads is an actual map of East LA. If you don't remember or haven't seen it, click here to see where I got it. It's the same thing, without the colorful background. But this is projected onto 3D surface and has buildings on it. You can see that the buildings don't quite match up perfectly, but you won't notice that when I put a road texture instead of that map texture. What did I find out a few days ago? That East Los Angeles is flat. With the exception of the hills to the north and northwest, it is as flat as can be. So I measured out six kilometers east to west and six kilometers north to south and called it Jav's Anarchist Geodome. My apologies if I misrepresent this city. I have this idea that this character lives in Downtown LA underneath a geodesic dome in the year 2014. So I'm rebuilding this city in 3d and putting a dome over it. Then it becomes Jav's Anarchist Geodome. But people won't call it that. It'll just be Dome 7 or East LA or eastside in slang. A few things to note are: I-5 to the south. You may have missed the fact that I was unable to convey in Scene 1 that the Warehouse was right next to the I-5 freeway. Also, you'll notice that there is a pretty monotonous street pattern. There aren't many deviant paths. But one of the biggest problems I had was that the neighborhood was built at an angle to north-south and east-west. That makes it very difficult to work with in MilkShape 3D. I was thinking it might be easier to rotate the bitmap than to rotate the buildings. To the north of East LA, there are hills 70 meters tall. Using my Terrain works, I made it happen. You can't see it here, but you'll hopefully see it in Scene 6. It ought to look really natural and stuff. Next up is the actual Dome. The dome isn't in place, but it looks like this page. There'll be traffic lights that look like this page. There will be Jav's bike that will look like this page. There will be an SUV that looks like this page. There will be a car that looks like this page. The first two pages will look like this page. There will be a park that might look like this page. There will definately be a kitty that looks like the one on this page (with the addition of fur and face). There might be something else in there, but who knows, eh? The lesson for today, I've decided, is that there is a time and a place for everything. You can do one thing for just so long. Then you move on to the next. That next thing has its time and place and you do that next. Today there was a time and a place for getting my computer working. There was also a time and a place for finding a job. There's also a time for working on Scene 6. Things happen like that. It's good how things happen like that. When things stop happening like that, start changing them. Sometimes sitting in front of a computer all day will produce less computer-related stuff than sitting in the park all day. If it's the right time for playing in the park, by all means take the day off.
You may say with some truth that this picture is as lacking as last night's picture was fantastic. However, this picture is a testament to my technical ingenuity. This is a screenshot from the upper left of my screen. But not my normal screen. You might notice that it contains some very odd looking icons. For example, "halfStats reset". Why would I have that on my screen? Because this is not my normal computer. This is my old webserver. I'm actually writing this in a Windows 2000 Pro Notepad. My workstation crashed today for good. It's gone to join the megaflops in the sky. For the past five days, it had been giving me trouble on boot. At first it would randomly reboot. The second day, the monitor wouldn't turn on during boot until five tries. The third day it would do constant rebooting for about two hours in the morning. Then today it wouldn't stay booted for five minutes. So I decided to do some work on it. I switched the power supply (the first suspect). That didn't fix it. I then put the video card into this computer, it works flawlessly. Then I put the hard drive in this computer. I tried and I tried and it wouldn't work. But that wasn't the problem with the other computer. The other computer had two severe problems, neither linked to the hard drive. So I tried putting this computer's video card into the other computer. Nothing. It boots to the password screen and freezes. A completely different problem from the previous. The random reboots are gone. So now I've decided that I'm going to use this computer until that computer gets fixed. Since I've swapped video cards, it should go at nearly the same frame rate. Of course, this is a 300 MHz, which means that it's not a speed demon. It's actually very slow. With Windows 2000 Professional and 128 MB of RAM, you can guess what nightmares I'm having. I don't mind very much though. If I can do half of anything, I'm doing good. But that's the problem. I can't do anything without my data. AltSci3D Manga Director is on that Hard Drive and that hard drive doesn't work with this computer. Why me? Have I done something to offend the CPUs? Is slavery every day for 1.5 years too much for them to handle? We humans don't seem to mind 40 years of slavery. Why can't these computers take a hint? Anyway, I've narrowed it down to the CPU or the Motherboard, neither of which I have enough money to fix. If I can't get that hard drive to work with this computer and I can't get that computer to get past the password screen, I'm SOOL trying to work on JF or my job.
