I’ve grown bored of the visualization project so I don’t think I’ll do any more renders unless there are requests, but before I sign out on that topic I wanted to post two last test renders, that are similar to the last one, but instead of just IEDs, they include much more. Small black circles are crime. Flashing diamond-sort-of-things (they were supposed to be muzzle flares originally) are combat incidents. The same thing, but reddish is friendly fire. A green circle is an IED or mine that didn’t hurt anyone. A red one is an IED/mine that caused casualties. Red crosses are MEDEVAC type missions. Blue dots that expand to a hollow blue circle are psyop or intel gathering incidents. Purple X’s are accidents. Areas of the map become tinted red permanently as they experience casualties there.
I’ve created two versions, one that’s the entire country and the surrounding area, and one that’s a zoom in showing the area between Kabul and Kandahar. Each one has been rendered at 1080p (ie. 1920×1080), so when YouTube’s servers have had a chance to do the conversion, you should be able to watch it at high res if you’d like. I haven’t bothered with music or intro or anything like that because I was just testing, and then, like I said, got bored.
Among other things, we went to the Royal Ontario Museum today to check out the terracotta warriors exhibition and the still excellent after several recent viewings biodiversity displays. Instead of walking, I used a wheelchair, which was an experience that I have mixed feelings about. I know for sure that I hated being pushed, because it made me feel really helpless and low and “less than”, but rolling it myself was enjoyable and it sure was nice to be able to move around without every step being an effort.
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Nixon meets Leary on Easter Island.
I don’t think you can get a wheelchair sword, but there’s plenty of other things you can do to customise one! If it makes life easier for you, make the most of it :)
i was lucky enough to see the warriors at the dig site in 1988. i still treasure the mini statue made of local clay that the locals were making for tourists. dozens of poor kids were selling them so i gave them candy,punk tapes and pins along with the money they wanted.
holy crap!
wheelchair sword!!
it must be done, or at least a chainsaw…
Hello pal i wondering if you could tell me a bit about how u made this visualization?
what i mean is did you use 3D studio max or something like that?
Im studying information graphics, i have chosen war as a current event to talk about.
Stephen, I used custom software that I wrote myself. It’s pretty simple, it just draws on a map and then saves the frame to disc, and I then reassemble all these frames into a movie. But yeah, all custom software for the visualization.
Thank you mate…
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