MetaFilter posts tagged with modelling

H0 Vehicles off the leash.

Laotic — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:46:47 -0800

Chester Fesmire sure knows how to weather a truck in 1:87. Chester Fesmire may be a master when it comes to building and weathering H0 scale vehicles and small dioramas, and he does not keep his methods secret. But go big and you get something like the Hamburg Miniatur Wunderland, which has made a debut on MeFi a year ago and has now released an official video. (YT) In the vid you see many moving trucks. Those use the Faller Car System – a hidden track in the road guides the vehicles around. But you would surely want more freedom for your vehicle, right? Put a tiny motor in it and make it remote controlled. Standard big rig too big for ya? Go smaller. (that car is about an inch long) Not enough powered axles? Go 6x6. (YT with loud music) Not enough lights? Go crazy. (YT in German, well worth watching) What do you mean? 1:87 too big? Want 1:160? It exists. (Many of the pages and vids are in German only – enjoy anyway)

Thick in size but thin in content

Shepherd — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:47:02 -0800

Quebec clothing chain Simons has pulled its newest catalogue after getting hundreds of complaints that the models in it were too thin. The genesis of the complaints may have been a story about the catalogue (and complaints) on Radio-Canada (Canada's French-language national broadcaster) about a week ago. "Models are too thin!" is not an uncommon refrain in the media; in Spain, models with a BMI under 18 are banned from modelling. The death of models from Uruguay and Brazil in 2006 seems to have sparked the general growing awareness of models as unhealthy (and unhealthy influences); this is, however, possibly the first time that a major retailer has recalled a catalogue due to public outcry over its models being too thin. With the "average" fashion model weighing 23% less than the typical woman and standing six inches taller, is the public outcry over the catalogue and its subsequent recall the shape of things to come?

Modelling human memory, predicting forgetting

weston — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:03:31 -0800

Modelling Human Memory. Or, really, predicting the point of forgetting.

Dope wars for policy wonks

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:58:54 -0800

Historically, drug laws have been a reactive response to a moral panic. Increasingly though, some governments are now seeking a more rational basis for drug policy. For the first time ever, all interested parties have been invited to get involved in the creation of the UK's next ten year drug strategy though many senior government advisors have been openly critical of some of the premises. Ultimately, arguments about drug policy often boil down to arguments about personal values, and the extent to which individual liberty trumps the collective good. For a long time though, we passed laws based on hypothetical future scenarios that may or may not have been sustainable by the data. One tool for making rational decisions about drug policy is modelling. In the past, this tended to be limited to policy wonks working in government departments, academia or think tanks. However, the Drug Policy Modelling Programme at the University of New South Wales have published their modelling tools and methods on their website. Now you too can download SimDrug and test your own assumptions about what would happen with illicit drug markets if YOU were drug czar.

"...it's only when you have your code in your head that you really understand the problem."

orthogonality — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:55:38 -0800

Ever read a blog post, and think, "I wish I wrote that"? For all the Mefites with the many AskMe questions about "can I/should I/how should I learn to/ be a computer programmer", here's a pretty good explication of how good programing is done: Holding a Program in One's Head.

zbrushcentral.com

crunchland — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:45:49 -0800

Interesting gallery of images people have made using a program called zBrush. (some images nsfw)

Substrate

signal — Fri, 20 May 2005 22:37:33 -0800

Substrate: one of the more striking uses of Processing I've seen so far. And quite urban-like, no? via Computing for Emergent Architecture.

Teat Time

undule — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:09:26 -0800

Platonic Ideal? Or banality? Some chums and I were having the classic argument over 3d package superiority when we discovered, overjoyed, that they all had one thing in common, the Utah Teapot. I didn't realize this oddball shape had a history, or that is was real . . . but if the virtual (actual scan!) isn't your gig, whip out yer foldin' fingers.

palegirl — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:23:12 -0800

speaking of anorexia... "ministers are so concerned about the obsession of teenage girls with being thin that they are considering regulations aimed specifically at the fashion industry. the department of trade and industry is looking to draft regulations that would be designed to halt the "use and abuse" of those suffering from eating disorders and could force modelling agencies to use people with normal body shapes."