Yukito Kishirois a master of the artform known as manga. His writing is poetry(even though it's translated into English) his drawing is more descriptive and beautiful than a billion words.
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This picture is original. I haven't taken the course, nor is it a real course. Behavioralism is a theory, not quite a full subject in itself, even though some psychologists spend their entire lives trying to prove or disprove it. If you want a list of real psychology courses offered at the University of Washington, click here. The closest one to my fictional course is LAB ANIMAL BEHAVIOR. Hehehe, that's more scientific than trying to prove behavioralism in people. You see, some people's parents are intelligent while their offspring are not and visa-versa. This is light evidence for behavioralism. I myself am a behavioralist. I believe that people can be taught to do things with little dependence on genetics. If that weren't true, I wouldn't be able to type out this on a ASP page which has just recently been invented. Tell me how genetics pre-emptively struck this need and I'll ensure you wish you never entered the gene pool. Hahaha, geneticist joke.
This picture is of a hat that I was inspired to make. It's a nice hat. It fit's fairly well and is exactly the same as my 3d model. If you're looking at the high-res picture and have the DivX 4 codec, click here for a full motion video! It's only 400 kB, only 133% bigger than the PNG file. I could have made the PNG file smaller by reducing the number of colors, but you people are hi-res viewers, right? If you aren't, just click here for low resolution. I made it so that the links on the lo page go to lo pages. That is a nice website feature, right? The lesson today might be called perverted, or "hentai" in Japanese, but I'm going to give it to you anyway. Feel yourself up. Ya, you heard me right. Put your hands into each and every curve of your body. NO, not there! But everywhere else... *cough, cough* Why am I telling you to do this? Not because it feels good. For all intensive purposes, it should feel very icky. However, if you're the artist type, you'll go to the extreme and figure out just exactly what it is that you're modelling. Yes, this is a lesson about 3d modelling. If you want to model the hand, don't just draw five cylinders hooked up to a box. That looks like crap. Look at your hand, feel the webbing between the fingers, knock on your knuckles, pinch your fat thumb. But whatever you do, don't use an exacto-knife to see the inside! It might hurt. But if you're thinking along those lines, then my lesson is getting through. The other night, I felt up my face. I looked at my webcam (my digital mirror) for about an hour. Then I took out my red masking take (kinky, I know) and I taped up my face. Why would I do such a silly thing? For art. So I took a brown paper bag and cut it up. I made it into a hat. Originally, it was supposed to be a mask (a monkey mask, in fact), but I turned it around and it was a better hat. But what does the hat have to do with feeling my face? Well, I pushed the paper bag against my face and figured out what shape my face really is. The paper bag can only fold into triangles, which makes it perfect for modelling. You see, to figure out how a face is constructed, you not only need a front view and side view, but you also must know how to interpolate those points. So with red tape and a paper bag, I taped my face at key points. I have the pictures of the tape experiment, but you don't get to see them. They're icky, like I said. But they are invaluable. Particularly the ones where the tape is at the edge of my face in the front. You see, from the side view, I see that it isn't the back of my head, it isn't my cheeks, it's my jaw. So when you put the vertexes in, the left and right side of the face should not be the cheeks, but rather the jaw to the ear. I guess everyone should learn it from their self, though. Don't go to: The Loomis Project because it won't tell you a thing that you can't find out better with a webcam or mirror. Of course, you might not be a supermodel, so you look at a supermodel to see what he/she looks like. But the general idea is the same.
So, what's this mess? This mess is a lesson waiting to happen. You've seen this background before, but you won't recognize it unless you decompress it, delete the first 54 characters, and rename the output BMP to PNG. I'm going to teach people here a little bit about data compression theory. Using my AltSci Any2Img program, I turned a png file into a bitmap. Then I recompressed it. Why isn't it a lot smaller than the original? I did compress it twice instead of once. Well, that's because of the definition of compression. If you could compress something n number of times and get a smaller each time, the limit as you take n to infinity, the compressed file becomes zero size. Then you have a program that can create information out of nothing. But that's nothing new. The damascus blade came out of "nothing". A program that inputs three numbers and outputs a picture. I could make a program out of that program that inputs nothing and outputs the damascus blade. Of course, it'd output the damascus blade every time unless I hooked it up to some random or some factor driven function (which would be data, I might add). So, where was I? Ah, yes, the compressed file. The double compressed picture looks pretty random, right? Well, a good compression outputs a very random compressed file. In fact, a perfect compression program would output perfectly random information. That is perfect as defined that it would compress to the smallest size possible. But perfectly random is hard to define. What is perfect randomness? Random is something that not only cannot be defined by a person with a ruler, but is theoretically impossible to be defined. Pretty strong words. What is an example? Well, the exact position of an atom is pretty random. With Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle, it is impossible to know the position exactly because it would take an infinite amount of energy. Without going further into Quantum Mechanics than we need to, I'll just tell you that we can only know the position of an atom to a certain degree and that degree is based on the energy that your laser fires at it. But there are better ways to get random numbers than pushing around atoms with a laser.
