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Synthesizing 3D form based on photos using special software like Realit圜apture or PhotoScan. Kitbashing is a practice of assembling 3D models out of premade kits. The quirky Zbrush tool is able to create all kinds of primitives based on the projection of shadows toward a central volume.ĭisplacing geometry based on 2D texture maps. This is a hybrid workflow which involves converting 2D vector graphics into 3D splines. Using splines as the boundary loops of a flowing surface (see the Grid Fill tool for example). ![]() Unlike the meshes that are made of vertices, edges and polygons, NURBS are fully parametric and are defined by splines and points. Non-Uniform Rational Basis Splines (or NURBS) is a mathematical model for representing 3D shapes. Skinning splines while retaining the skeleton. Revolving a spline to create a 3D surface. Turning bezier curves into renderable objects by giving some thickness to them. Drawing 2D Shapes in Orthographic Projectionĭrawing two-dimensional shapes using vertices, edges and faces.Įxtracting an area of the mesh or using an object as a scaffolding to build a new surface. Metaballs are objects that interact to produce a liquid-like surface.ĥ. ![]() Logical operations of adding, subtracting and intersecting two objects to create the third object as a result. Subdivision modeling is characterized by manipulating the low poly cage that gets subdivided into the high poly final mesh. Using 2D stencils to inform the strength of the sculpting strokes. dynamically adding what you need where you need it to get out of the ‘not-enough-polygons’ situations. ![]() Same as regular sculpting, but with extra polygons created under the brush stroke i.e. Shaping your digital lump of clay in a free-form way using various 3D brushes. If you liked this tutorial, check the full course on BlenderMarket or Gumroad. This is a bonus tutorial from Hard-surface Modeling in Blender video course. ![]() It’s a generically boring gig, and yet, watching her suffer through it - she sarcastically tells her parents, “Old Kit didn’t try hard enough to like things that are disgusting” - it’s hard not to interpret this movie as being openly hostile to the 99% of audiences who do something other than paint rainbows for a living. That detail, like nearly all of Larson’s artistic choices, isn’t half as cute as she seems to think.īack home with her camp-counselor parents (Bradley Whitford and Joan Cusack, who talks to everyone as if he or she were four years old), Kit tries to get a grown-up job, working as a temp in an advertising firm. But now that she’s entering the adult world, is the movie rewarding her for having held on to her childish sensibility, or is it suggesting that she really needs to grow up?įrankly, it’s hard to decipher the movie’s agenda: When Kit’s art-school professors flunk her for painting yet another unicorn as her final project, are they the ones who need to think outside of their fuddy-duddy ways, or is it meant as a loud-and-clear early warning that Kit is blocked and needs to move past her fixation with magical lone-horned horses? One thing is clear: Kit should really learn to paint without making such a rainbow-colored mess on her own face. Her character loves glue guns, glitter and improvised crafts, and the movie ought to feel as charming and eccentric as Kit’s own artwork, playfully introduced in home videos that convincingly suggest that Larson herself grew up putting all her energy into watching “Rainbow Brite” and doodling unicorns. Who wouldn’t want to watch Larson get the spirit animal she’s always wanted? It’s just that there’s a serious mismatch between the personality of Samantha McIntyre’s script (which seems to be written as a kooky, do-it-yourself comedy, à la “Being John Malkovich” or “Napoleon Dynamite”) and Larson’s directing style, which feels entirely incompatible with whimsy. “Unicorn Store” spends so much time focused on Kit’s mostly-average, mostly-boring pre-unicorn life that it’s hard to understand what the universe (or the movie, at least) is trying to teach her - something about not being selfish, or the importance of not throwing bratty tantrums in your 20s, or (and this is a direct quotation, albeit one whose meaning is muddled) “we’re all looking for happiness and maybe if we’re lucky we can just buy it in a store.”Ī child actress who broke out with the 2013 indie “Short Term 12,” Larson is an immensely loveable star who, two years later in the movie “Room,” demonstrated how effortlessly she manages to bridge the empathy gap between tricky characters and skeptical audiences. What if Kit’s childhood wish came true? Would it be the best thing that ever happened? Or in some cases, is giving a girl a pony the worst possible present? Perhaps there’s some wisdom to that, but wouldn’t it be great to find out? Jackson, wearing tablecloth-print suits and tinsel in his afro, à la Beyoncé), where Kit can arrange to adopt her very own unicorn. ![]() In order for this pixie-dusted contemporary fable to make its point, the movie erects a magical pop-up shop just for Kit, complete with world’s most flamboyant salesman (Samuel L. ![]() Mostly, it’s about a unicorn-obsessed young art student named Kit (Larson) who needs some sort of life lesson (although what it was exactly remains maddeningly unclear at the end). Yes, it’s about unicorns, but only obliquely. It’s a colossal oversight on Hollywood’s part: For all the girls (and boys) who grew up dreaming about those fabled beasts, there exists a unicorn-shaped hole in the cinematic universe today, and it’s long been my belief that the first filmmaker to come along and fill it was going to become very, very rich.īrie Larson’s “Unicorn Store” is not that movie. Recent years have seen blockbusters made about pirates and wizards and zombies and superheroes, but you have to go all the way back to Ridley Scott’s “Legend” (1985), or else Rankin/Bass’ animated “The Last Unicorn” (1982), to find a proper movie made about unicorns. ![]() ![]() The actual combat encounters have you facing off against one or many enemies in turn based card battles. Each run is different and the blend of so many things together makes you always have to think on your feet. The unknown points can result in you earning relics (like accessories in RPGs), battles, or events that give you gold or harm you. Nodes on the map range from elites (minibosses), enemies, rest points, treasure, merchants, and finally bosses at the end.Īfter every successful encounter or battle, you are rewarded with a card, gold, and sometimes a potion. You decide what to do based on your health and needs at the point in the run. This allows you some freedom because one path can have a merchant while the other has a surprise unknown node. The basic flow of the game is you starting out the bottom of the map on the first act and your aim is to slowly climb upwards as you make decisions on which path to take. Expect to die often as you learn to be better and you will definitely succeed as is the case with most roguelikes. They play very differently and I’d recommend sticking to one for the time being as you get your bearings of how the game plays and feels across multiple runs. Slay the Spire has four playable characters that get unlocked through progression and through fulfilling a few requirements. Since then, the game has received multiple updates with new content and the game has finally arrived on mobile through iOS. Attempting to bring multiple genres together is something loads of developers try but I was blown away at how well designed Slay the Spire is even months ago when it arrived on consoles. If you’ve never played Slay the Spire before, it blends deckbuilding games with roguelikes. I’ve been playing it for a few days now on multiple iOS devices and other platforms for this review and I can safely say that the wait was worth it with a few caveats. Everyone has been looking forward to Megacrit’s roguelike deckbuilder and Humble Games finally brought it to iOS over the weekend. Slay the Spire ($9.99) has finally arrived on iOS as a universal release after a very long wait. ![]() If you see numbers like 1,2, or 3, they represent the first, second, or third fret that you hold down. An O represents an open note, which you play without holding down a fret. The six horizontal lines represent the strings of the guitar and numbers are attached to each string along the tab. The tablature will show the chords to a song from left to right, as if you were reading text. Tabs may seem a bit more complicated, but learning to read chords is no more difficult than reading a chord chart. Guitar tabs are frequently used to denote the chords that are used in songs. You can create a minor triad by playing a root note, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. The triad consists of three notes: the root, a major third, and a perfect fifth. Major chords are the first that beginners should learn. The finger can be moved up or down the fret board to create different notes and sounds. They’re the first chords beginners should learn because they set the stage for an understanding of more complicated cords, such as barre chords.īarre chords are played with two fingers holding down all or most of the strings of the guitar across multiple frets. Open chords only use the first three frets on the guitar and they usually contain one or more open strings. There are two types of chords that beginners should be aware of: open chords and barre chords. Here are a few more chord charts for you to study and play: These three notes strummed together create the C major chord. Try looking at building chords the same way you would use building blocks. The first note is considered the root note and the other notes in the chord are strummed after it. For example, the C major chord contains three notes: C, E, and G. Guitar beginners often get confused with the term “chord” and the term “note.” A chord is a set of notes, usually three, that are played simultaneously. The filled O’s represent strings you must hold down to play the chord. The X’s represent strings you won’t play for the chord. When you look at a guitar chord chart, you’ll notice that there are X’s, unfilled O’s, and filled O’s. The filled O’s will also sometimes contain numbers. The numbers represent which finger you should use to fret the note. The image of the chord chart represents this same view of your guitar, with strings running vertically and frets horizontally. If you’re confused by the layout of the image above, hold your guitar in front of you so that the strings are facing you and the headstock is pointing up. You’ll often see chords notated as in the chart above. The six vertical and five horizontal lines represent your guitar’s fretboard. Three or more notes together create a chord. ![]() ![]() To play a chord, you’ll need to use the scale to put together notes. These metal strips allow you to change the pitch of a string by altering the length between the string and the bridge. You’ll notice on your guitar that each fret is separated by a metal strip. These semitones are noted on the guitar by the frets. The chromatic scale is a musical scale that’s broken up into 12 pitches. Chords on the Guitarīefore you begin to truly understand chords, you need to first understand the chromatic scale. If you delve into the history of chord progression a bit you’ll find that thousands of songs, from both past and present, use the same chord progressions repeatedly. We need to first understand how chords work before we can move on to chord progressions. Once you understand the guitar’s notes, it’s time to learn chords, and then chord progressions. While most of us can’t simply pick up a guitar and start playing without instruction, the process of learning to play a song is fairly straightforward. It’s also a great instrument to play while singing simultaneously. Many people enjoy pop music because it’s catchy and the lyrics are infectious. The guitar is an easy avenue for those wanting to play their favorite pop songs. Most commonly, however, people decide they want to play the guitar because of how prominently it’s featured in today’s top music. The guitar, as the second most popular musical instrument in the world (right behind the piano at number one), is the peoples’ choice for a myriad of reasons. Learning to play the guitar is a task that’s undertaken by thousands, if not millions of people each and every year. A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Guitar Chord Progressions Even in ancient Israel, it was God’s people who got right with Him first (revival), and then as many did, the nation was changed (transformation). If you make the distinction that spiritual awakening will not happen unless God’s people are revived-and that is why you are calling for prayer for revival-then you are correct in doing so. When praying for a nation, it is more accurate to use the terms spiritual awakening or community/national transformation, rather than revival, to describe what you are praying toward. Though many revivals have spawned large enough spiritual awakenings that society has changed, that is not a given. History shows there have been significant smaller revivals where there was not a noticeable change in communities or regions. This transformation is a wonderful thing, but it is not revival. In the Welsh Revival of 1904–05, jails closed and policemen had to do other things to pass the time because there was virtually no crime. Many past revivals were widespread enough that society changed for the better. They are often the first people converted in a revival. 2) In almost every church there is likely a significant percentage of people sitting in the pews who have never experienced true conversion. Then people always come to Christ as a result. Confusion over using this as a synonym for revival comes because of two factors: 1) Great numbers of lost people coming to Christ always happen in the midst of a revival because the Church gets right with God and comes together in greater unity. A spiritual awakening occurs when an unusually large number of unbelievers come to faith in Jesus Christ. He moves in a powerful way to bring about repentance of sin and complacency, empowering believers in a fresh way with His Spirit to live as they should. In the truest sense of the word, revival means God is doing a sovereign work of grace among His people. You cannot be revived if you are not already alive in Christ. Revival is something that happens to the church and to believers. All of these uses can cause misunderstandings when we speak of revival. Three other issues associated with revival add to the confusion: Some churches have used the term for years to mean a set of special meetings other groups that rally prayer for a nation will use the term to mean the spiritual renewal of that nation, and some groups equate revival to mean a display of outward manifestations. We have additional confusion with another term that many incorrectly use as a synonym for revival: spiritual awakening. However, a great deal of confusion exists as to what we mean when we use the term revival. Desperation for another significant move of God’s Spirit is on the rise in the Church today. There seems to be much talk about revival among pastors and leaders of denominational and parachurch ministries. ![]() The company offered developers access to its so-called social graph, its rich web of user connections and personal data. “I think it’s a way for them to offload responsibility,” the professor said.įacebook’s developer conference, called F8, began in 2007 to entice developers to build apps for the social network. The focus on Facebook Groups is convenient for the company because it reduces the amount of public content that it has to moderate and ultimately answer for, said Jennifer Grygiel, an assistant professor of media and communication at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Instagram introduced new digital shopping and commerce features inside the app. It plans to roll out its Dating feature to more than a dozen new countries, such as Thailand and Canada the service is not available in the United States. All in all, it will be hard for someone to open up Facebook and not see a prompt beckoning him or her to a group chat.įacebook also revealed other changes. Messages meant for close friends and family will have their own section inside Facebook Messenger. Recommendations for groups that users may want to join will pop up in various areas of the app. Facebook is adding a Groups tab to its main mobile app and desktop menus, for example. The initial new features that were unveiled on Tuesday alter the site but do not amount to a full-scale overhaul. Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the changes were late given that privacy concerns “were raised many, many years ago” to Facebook. “And it leaves a lot of questions unaddressed, in particular how this shift will affect its equally massive advertising business.” “The challenge of steering the Facebook ship in this new, private direction is going to be massive,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an internet analyst at eMarketer, a research firm. The company generates most of its $56 billion in annual revenue from targeted advertising that is based partly on what people publicly post about themselves. The shift raises questions for Facebook, including how it will make money from private communications. And it unveiled a spare, stark white look for Facebook, a departure from the site’s largely blue-tinted design. The company also plans to continue emphasizing its Stories product, which allows people to post updates that disappear after 24 hours. Zuckerberg is working to integrate and encrypt Facebook’s different messaging services, which include WhatsApp and Messenger. With the changes, users can more easily message one another and share news and other items with members of private groups on the site, the company said. The revisions add new features to promote group-based communications instead of News Feed, where people publicly post a cascade of messages and status updates. On Tuesday at its annual developer conference, Facebook unveiled a redesign of its mobile app and desktop site. Now, the chief executive is rolling out the first in a series of changes to achieve that. Mark Zuckerberg declared in March that he planned to shift Facebook away from being a public town square and to private communications. Then another lady showed up at our table 5 minutes later and started sales pitching us on a $ 700 private dance party, whatever. When we arrived we hadn’t even had a chance to sit down before a young lady was hustling us for a drink (part of her job, I know, but give us at least a few minutes to get acclimated. It was a Sunday night so we did not expect «balls to wall» happy, crazy, fun time but pretty much the entire staff, except for the fantastic door man (who gave us excellent resturant recommendations) were phoning it in. My boyfriend and I went here for my birthday, last night. The only reason it gets two stars instead of one is because the dancers there were very nice, attractive and had some good pole skills. That bartender was terrible and clearly management doesn’t care enough about anything there. That’s ridiculously bad! They didn’t even care they could’ve gotten us extremely sick and when asked to get a different appetizer she said no we would have to pay because of the free drinks. The chicken was way undercooked like completely still raw and the same bitchy bartender wouldn’t do anything about it except gave us two free drinks (there were three of us there). We had the French fries and chicken tenders which look like they were brought fresh from the microwave. We came back over after the show and against our better judgment ordered some of their appetizers. She took forever to serve us and was rude and standoffish. ![]() The guy at the door gave me coupons that he said were supposed to be for free drinks because it was my birthday but the bartender said those were only buy one get one. The interior of the place is really nice. My friends and I went there before seeing a show, it was free cover and the drinks were bogo. ![]() The adhesives have good modulus and tensile strength, which are obtained without loss of elongation and adhesive properties. The adhesives are structural type adhesives that contain an epoxy resin and a toughener, and may contain a liquid rubber in addition to the core-shell rubber. In recent years, some research teams have used core–shell rubber particles and block copolymers simultaneously and have achieved fascinating results.Photostimulable luminescence. Core-shell rubbers are incorporated into epoxy adhesives. They then used core–shell rubber particles along with rigid fillers such as silica to offset the slight diminish in mechanical properties, as well as the glass transition temperature. Researchers first focused on the use of core–shell rubber particles containing different cores and shells. This review paper also refers to the results of the research papers published on the effect these rubber particles on the mechanical properties of epoxy resins, as well as explains different toughening mechanisms of epoxy resins. We have recently shown that by adding 10 to 30 wt core/shell toughener with a low density polyethylene (LDPE) core and a polybutadiene-g-maleic anhydride (PB-g-MAH) rubber shell to polyamide 6 (PA6), the impact strength of PA6 matrix can be significantly increased by 6001000. At ambient temperature, the deformation of the toughened epoxy resin has been extensively studied in the literature 6-16. Overall, the core-shell rubber had little effect on the tensile properties at room temperature and. We have recently shown that by adding 10 to 30 wt core/shell toughener with a low density polyethylene (LDPE) core and a polybutadiene-g-maleic anhydride (PB-g-MAH) rubber shell to polyamide 6 (PA6), the impact strength of PA6 matrix can be significantly increased by 6001000. be increased by adding Kaneka MX series of core-shell rubber (CSR) nanoparticles. Some of the features are: Since the particle morphology is uniform, physical properties of the base resin become homogeneous. By combining different core and shell materials, a variety of functions can be achieved. ![]() This paper briefly introduces each reinforcement separately and mainly presents an in-depth review of the progress of the last decade in the field of toughening of epoxy resins using core–shell rubber particles. An anhydride-cured thermosetting epoxy polymer has been modified by the addition of different wt of silica nanoparticles, coreshell rubber particles and. In this study, the deformation mechanisms of a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A epoxy modified with MX960 core-shell rubber particles were investigated under quasi-static tensile and impact loads at room temperature and liquid nitrogen temperature. A core-shell particle has a multi-layer structure, with a core at the center surrounded by a shell. To overcome this drawback, different kinds of reinforcements, including liquid rubbers, core–shell rubber particles, dendritic polymers, block copolymers, thermoplastics, rigid particles, etc., have been used to improve the fracture toughness of epoxy resin systems. Despite their excellent properties, epoxy resins are brittle and have a low resistance to the initiation and growth of cracks. core shell Prior art date Legal status (The legal status is an. When cure the resin composition can be used to formulate composites, coatings, laminates, and adhesives. 18345-18367 ISSN: 0022-2461 Subject: brittleness, composite polymers, epoxides, glass transition temperature, liquids, rubber, shrinkage, silica, thermoplastics Abstract: Excellent thermal and mechanical properties and high chemical resistance with low shrinkage of epoxy resins open a wide window of various industrial applications, including coatings, paints, adhesive, etc. A polymer comprising: a) a thermosetting epoxy-terminated oxazolidinone ring containing polymer modified by b) core shell rubber particles, wherein at least 50 of the core shell rubber particles are prepared by a process comprising: I) carrying out an emulsion polymerization of monomers in an aqueous dispersion medium to form thermoplastic core shell rubber particles II) coagulating the. A curable resin composition comprising: a) an epoxy resin b) an anhydride hardener c) a polyol d) a core shell rubber, and (e) a catalyst, is disclosed. ![]() Toughening of epoxy resin systems using core–shell rubber particles: a literature review Author: Seyed Rasoul Mousavi, Sara Estaji, Mahsa Raouf Javidi, Azin Paydayesh, Hossein Ali Khonakdar, Mohammad Arjmand, Elham Rostami, Seyed Hassan Jafari Source: Journal of materials science 2021 v.56 no.33 pp. ![]() In the year 1969, the innovation jumped a notch and they brought about a quartz timepiece – they first of its kind in the whole wide world. The innovation didn't end there – they went ahead to make the first Japanese diver's watch, to fuel the adventurer who prefers his/her adventures in the water. To further innovate, they came up with Japan's first watch which had a stopwatch – the Seiko Chronograph - fitted in it in the year 1964 – this came up when Tokyo was to host the Olympic games. They wanted to portray paramount levels of excellence and increase the accuracy with respect to the one that they were already offering and this led to the advent of the Grand Seiko. In the year 1960, Seiko went ahead and curated a team of its most skilled and experienced individuals – in order to cater to the world the best watch they were capable of. The brand released its very first watch in the year 1924. Wanting to fill in this niche, Laurel – first wristwatch to be produced in Japan – was created in the year 1913. ![]() He wanted to be a step ahead and he had observed that there is a gap in the watch industry of Japan and that was the lack of producing wristwatches. The passion towards watchmaking was immense and it grew all the more since Hattori was thinking big. As it happened, the amount of heed being paid to the company increased. ![]() He started dreaming big but he started small and that is when the company began the production of pocket watches in the year 1895. Since the wall clocks produced by Siekosha were immediately liked by the people – Hattori felt motivated and thought that this could mean something big for the company. The word ‘Seiko' has been derived from a Japanese word which means "exquisite" or "success". In the later years, the brand came up with its name, Seiko, under which it, till date, manufactures its products. This shop handled by Hattori was pretty quick in its innovation and began creating its clocks, but during that time the timepieces were released under the name Seikosha which means "House of Exquisite Workmanship". The name of its founder is Kintarō Hattori, who called his outlet “K. The story of this successful company began in the year 1881, when a young entrepreneur aged 24, established his watch and jewellery shop in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Get original watch bracelets and straps for Seiko Tuna, Prospex Marinemaster, Grand Seiko, etc.Seiko – with its history of 138 years - it is amongst the oldest watchmaking brands that are alive in the world of watches. available in different lug sizes and widths, depending upon your watch models. You can choose among single lock clasps, double lock push clasps, rubber straps, leather straps, buckles, etc. You can change your strap colour or bracelet style by picking a new one from these offerings. Whether it is the Seiko Bracelet D3A7AB for Seiko SARB017 you are looking for or the Seiko Rubber Strap DAL1BP, you can rest assured of the quality and authenticity of these components. Leather Straps, Stainless Steel Bracelets and MoreĮxplore a range of Seiko watch accessories, from model-specific bracelets to straps to complementing pocket watches. The watch straps and bracelets have an equally premium finish and durability standards. Like the original watches, these authentic parts are crafted through the same meticulous process that the watches undergo. ![]() are some of the watch accessories offered by the brand. Seiko leather straps, pocket watches, metallic bracelets, etc. The quality that goes into making Seiko watches deserves that when you need to replace a part, such as the watch strap, you get the genuine accessory. |
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