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Miss January 2008: Skenan Ann Bones ~ She wants to be a famous model at all the best shows.

Miss February: Finnea Bone ~ She’s got a great sense of humour

Miss March: Di Bones ~ She Welsh and she mixes a great martini

Miss April: Bona Fide ~ An Italian lady who cannot tell a lie so please don’t ask her age

Miss May: Bon Voyage ~ Wants to see the world

Miss June: Boneshaker ~ She loves to dance

Miss July: Boneanza ~ She just adores Lorne Greene

Miss August: "Hip" Bone ~ She’s just one cool chick

Miss September: Bonhomie – A little ostentatious but benevolent too

Miss October: Bon Marche ~ She’s French and she likes discount shopping

Miss November: Bonehead ~ Not the brightest skeleton in the pack

Miss December: Talulah Bonny ~ A good looking lass with great ankles

Bonus Girl: Shelly "Bob" ~ Favourite TV Show: Blackadder

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1. Architecture – The waterfront, the cathedrals and William Brown Street are often mentioned but there are many more distinctive buildings throughout the city
2. Music – From the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to a band you may have heard of called the Beatles
3. Sport – Notably Liverpool and Everton football clubs and the Grand National at Aintree
4. Visual Arts – From the varied collections in the city galleries to the SuperLambBanana and Turning the Place Over
5. The night life – Although I’ve not been out clubbing in years
6. Education – There are the three Universities (the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Hope University), the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and an assortment of schools and colleges.
7. The people
8. Poetry – including famous poets like Roger McGough and Adrian Henri
9. Eating out – the choice of types of food to eat in Liverpool is excellent and so wide I can’t list even a fraction here
10. Museums – Liverpool has Merseyside Maritime Museum, World Museum Liverpool, the International Slavery Museum, National Conservation Centre and Sudley House
11. FACT – A great little cinema
12. Festivals and Events – from the 800 celebration this year to the capital of culture next year and the various regular festivals there is usually something happening
13. Did I mention the people?

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A few weeks ago I posted a moth that flew into my kitchen to avoid a storm. Tonight I’ve got another one that I found there when I was cooking last night. These shots don’t really do it justice as I didn’t manage to get one of it with it’s wings open while it wasn’t flying.

I’ve been messing around with several projects today but have nothing remotely exciting to show. I was going through my blog today and found I’d written this back after the end of David Tennant’s first series as The Doctor but forgot to post it.

What if the Doctor was an operating system…

• Hartnell – Doctor Version I
• Peter Cushing – Doctor Version 1.1
• Troughton – Doctor Version II
• Pertwee – Doctor Version III
• Baker – Doctor Version 4.0 (Codenamed 70s Bohemian Wanderer)
• Gibbs – Special Limited Edition Version 4.1 "Watcher"
• Davison – Doctor Version 5.0 (Codenamed Cricket Leek)
• Baker – Doctor 6.0 (Codename 80s Garish Shoulder-Pad Warbler)
• McCoy – Doctor Version 7.0 (Codenamed Vision On Darkside-of-the-Who)
• McGann – This version 8.0 (Codenamed Spielburg Curates Egg) withdrawn from market due to faulty manufacturing
• Christopher Eccleston – Doctor XP (Codenamed Serious Actor Snit)
• David Tennant – Doctor Vista (Codenamed Bouncy Puppy Cocker-Factor-Winner)

There is a serious point to this.
The Doctor’s and The Masters regeneration ability has an interesting boon from the brand point of view. Very few shows can replace the lead character with a different character in the same way and reposition themselves in the product life cycle. In some ways its quite close to the way software companies can reposition their products through new version releases.

I’m just going to ask one question…

Just one…

Has the whole point of the last three series of Doctor Who been to set up a one gag story arc for Captain Jack?

In other news Last of the Time Lords managed not to be a lacklustre series finale and didn’t resort to a silly big battle that would have overstretched the CG budget and ended up looking worse than a small crowd of Daleks being an entire invasion in the 80s series.

Personally I think Muadib had a better ring to it as a word of power (not that I’d rather read the book where his name is not a killing word for a silly gadget but that’s another blog post). Bit more mysterious but Doctor will do as a second best.

After a day spent assembling a rather long questionnaire for a client’s new site I needed a break from typing. I thought I’d have a play with Vue. After half an hour of playing and 12 minutes of rendering I’d knocked the picture out of a ship running into a sheltered bay ahead of a storm. One EcoSystem, two standard terrains, one procedural terrain and a model ship from Cornucopia3D.

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Poser 5 available for free until the end of September 4th 23:59:59 Pacific Standard Time from Content Paradise.

I’ve been meaning to have a play with the terrain functions in Vue’s Python. Finally found the time and wrote two scripts that use most of the related features.

Two scripts that allow you to work with a terrain by exporting it as a CSV file that
can be edited in a spreadsheet and then importing it back into Vue.

Select a terrain and then run terraintocsv.py. A file called terraindata.csv will be saved in the directory you put the script in.

Edit the CSV file in your prefered spreadsheet or text editor. Save a CSV file over the original
terraindata.csv

Go back to Vue. With the original terrain selected run the csvtoterrain.py and the altered
CSV file will be loaded and used to set the terrains altitudes.

Download: terraintocsv.zip

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I’d been playing with importing sequences of wavefront object files as a way of bringing animations into Vue from other applications. Yesterday someone asked about importing a sequence from RealFlow. Fortunately I have a none commercial use copy of RealFlow that came on a cover disc a while ago. So I’ve been trying to get a reasonable import. I’ve got the object sequence coming in without too much problem and then cleared up a problem with flicker. Now all I have left to tackle is the scaling of the objects which is causing some problems. Hopefully I’ll find a fix soon.

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I’d left Vue rendering this one today while I was at work. While it originally estimated 15 hours for the print size size image it turned out to need less than 5 in the end. I don’t normally use global radiosity but I did with this picture for a change. It made the roadside bushes look a lot more verdant. The road texture is a mixed material I made myself. The bushy foliage is an EcoSystem I made with plants from the Incredibly Lush Underbrush pack from Cornucopia3d. I’m really pleased with the plants and I’m finding more and more scenes I’m using them in. You can’t tell from the picture but I got the scaling of some of the plants in the eco wrong, the nettles ended up being really, really tiny.