Trying to render this scene. My render output looks different from how it appears in the viewport. The ocean looks different in the attached two images, one of rendered output &amp; one viewport screenshot. trying to render in cycles. Applied Ocean modifier to create the ocean. Please guide me with your valuable feedback &amp; comments. Also appreciate if any suggestions to make the scene look better or any scope of improvement elswhere
When I try to render a wave, it keeps being rendered in extremely low quality. I'm not sure exactly which setting is causing this, but increasing the renderand viewport sampling don't seem to help.
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions.  If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion on .    For purposes of this question, spam will include:   Any automated post Manually-posted content which includes links to spammers' sites Manually-posted content which includes instructions to visit a spammer's site MapServer (MS4W) test page from shapefile shows only blank white square? I am trying to create a test page with mapserver and shapefile. At the moment I just want to get the map shown on my test page. I have gotten the EXTENT coordinates by opening shapefiles with QGIS - I am sure those are correct. I have followed this  as an example.  I am accessing my test page via this link:  http://localhost:1025/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\MS4W\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapfile.map   Problem I have - map is not loaded - I only see a blank white square.  When I look at contents of ms4w\Apache\htdocs\output , I see that images are actually getting generated but all of them are white (empty), for example:  lat_pmts_region13941906093724.png lat_pmts_region13941910095144.png lat_pmts_region13941913405500.png ...   Shapefiles are located at this location: C:\MS4W\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\shapefiles.  An example of what is logged to error file:  [Fri Apr 11 11:19:32 2014].883000 CGI Request 1 on process 7888 msWCSDispatch20(): wrong service (none) msWCSParseRequest(): request is KVP. msWCSDispatch(): SERVICE and REQUEST not included msDrawMap(): rendering using outputformat named png (AGG/PNG). msDrawMap(): WMS/WFS set-up and query, 0.000s msDrawMap(): Layer 0 (lat_pmts_region), 0.001s msDrawMap(): Drawing Label Cache, 0.000s msDrawMap() total time: 0.002s msSaveImage(C:/MS4W/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/output/lat_pmts_region13972043727888.png) total time: 0.138s [Fri Apr 11 11:19:33 2014].24000 mapserv request processing time (loadmap not incl.): 0.141s [Fri Apr 11 11:19:33 2014].24000 msFreeMap(): freeing map at 0246EFD8.   ms4w\Apache\htdocs\template.html:  &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Mapserver Template HTML Document&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;body bgcolor=#AAAAAA&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Template&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;img src="[img]" border=1&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;   It looks like this:   C:\MS4W\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapfile.map:  MAP     CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "C:/MS4W/ms4w/tmp/ms_error.txt"     DEBUG 5     NAME lat_pmts_region     STATUS ON     SIZE 800 600      EXTENT 286878.53 142087.25 799084.10 481123.75     #   lat_pmts_region      UNITS METERS     SHAPEPATH "shapefiles"     IMAGECOLOR 155 155 155      WEB     TEMPLATE "template.html"     IMAGEPATH "C:/MS4W/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/output/"     IMAGEURL "/output/"     END      LAYER     NAME "lat_pmts_region"     DATA lat_pmts_region     STATUS DEFAULT     TYPE POLYGON     END END   I will gladly provide more information if it's asked. Cannot access any files on Samsung Tab 4 7" We can say ‘fried fish’, ‘baked potato’ or ‘minced pork’ using past participles for modifiers.  However, ‘roast’ is different - either ‘roast duck’ or ‘roasted duck’ works, it seems to me.  How should we analyze this?  Is ‘roast’ a noun modifying a noun here, or is it a different form of the past participle?  (According to freedictionary.com, in Middle English the past participle was ‘roste’ – does that mean that this was once a strong verb?) launch app, capture stdout and stderr in c++ I don't know if this is a well-known fact, but I have observed that every number, no matter how large, that is equally divided by $9$, will equal $9$ if you add all the numbers it is made from until there is $1$ digit. A quick example of what I mean:  $9*99 = 891$ $8+9+1 = 18$ $1+8 = 9$  This works even with really long numbers like $4376331$ Why is that? This doesn't work with any other number. Similarly for $11$ and alternating digits sums. Imaginary line on the Earth is straight or not? I was watching Google map. Saw a line which is joinging north to south pole. It is going between middle of China and Mexico. But, the line is not straight. Tried to search in net but not able to get anything. Can anyone check and let me know  or What is a "callable"? Reference Text that develops Linear Algebra with Knowledge of Abstract Algebra Background: Due to some unfortunate sequencing, I have developed my abstract algebra skills before most of my linear algebra skills. I've worked through Topics in Algebra by Herstein and generally liked his approach to vector spaces and modules. Besides a very elementary course in linear algebra (where most of the time went towards matrix multiplication), I have not developed any other linear algebra skills.  But it seems that it is now necessary for me to do so. Most of the topics that I am looking at now require some background of linear algebra and I still lack understanding of ideas like: bilinear forms, invariant subspaces, eigenvalues, requirements for diagonalization of a matrix and so forth.  This brings me to my question (provided there are any)     Question: What are some good texts that develop the theory of linear algebra from a perspective of general algebra?   Are there any texts that develop the key (elementary) ideas of linear algebra in an abstract setting? Thank you for the help! Time taken to hit a pattern of heads and tails in a series of coin-tosses Inspired by Peter Donnelly's talk at , in which he discusses how long it would take for a certain pattern to appear in a series of coin tosses, I created the following script in R. Given two patterns 'hth' and 'htt', it calculates how long it takes (i.e. how many coin tosses) on average before you hit one of these patterns.  coin &lt;- c('h','t')  hit &lt;- function(seq) {     miss &lt;- TRUE     fail &lt;- 3     trp  &lt;- sample(coin,3,replace=T)     while (miss) {         if (all(seq == trp)) {             miss &lt;- FALSE         }         else {             trp &lt;- c(trp[2],trp[3],sample(coin,1,T))             fail &lt;- fail + 1         }     }     return(fail) }  n &lt;- 5000 trials &lt;- data.frame("hth"=rep(NA,n),"htt"=rep(NA,n))  hth &lt;- c('h','t','h') htt &lt;- c('h','t','t')  set.seed(4321) for (i in 1:n) {     trials[i,] &lt;- c(hit(hth),hit(htt))     } summary(trials)   The summary statistics are as follows,        hth             htt          Min.   : 3.00   Min.   : 3.000    1st Qu.: 4.00   1st Qu.: 5.000    Median : 8.00   Median : 7.000    Mean   :10.08   Mean   : 8.014    3rd Qu.:13.00   3rd Qu.:10.000    Max.   :70.00   Max.   :42.000    In the talk it is explained that the average number of coin tosses would be different for the two patterns; as can be seen from my simulation. Despite watching the talk a few times I'm still not quite getting why this would be the case. I understand that 'hth' overlaps itself and intuitively I would think that you would hit 'hth' sooner than 'htt', but this is not the case. I would really appreciate it if someone could explain this to me. In PHP, how do you change the key of an array element? What are bitwise operators? I'm about to start exploring the world of long exposure shots, using my Canon EOS M. The camera has a standard max exposure time of 30 seconds, but in bulb mode I can keep the shutter open indefinitely (using a wireless remote to control the shutter.)  How long can I leave the shutter open without running the risk of prolonged exposure to light damaging my sensor?  For the purposes of this question assume I'm shooting in summer daylight, so that we can go by the worst case. "dev/sda1: clean, ..." This message appears after I startup my laptop, then it won't continue booting Why does the natural ring homomorphism induce a surjective group homomorphism of units? I'm trying an old problem here:   Suppose $n\mid m$, and I have a natural ring homomorphism $\varphi\colon \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}\to\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ defined by $\varphi(j)=j\mod{n}$. I can verify that this is a ring homomorphism, but why does it induce a surjective group homomorphism on the unit groups $(\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z})^\times\to(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^\times$?  My question in particular is why is it surjective? I take $k\in(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^\times$. Then there exist integers $s,t$ such that $sn+tk=1$. Since $n\mid m$, I can also write $m=na$. So multiplying through I get $sm+tka=a$. I'm lost here. How can I find a unit in $(\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z})^\times$ which maps to $k$ to show surjectivity? I'm working on a project that requires me to get some of the position and rotation values to give to an Arduino via pyserial, but after sifting through the Blender documentation I can't find how to get them through script. I'd like to output a list of all installed packages into a text file so that I can review it and bulk-install on another system.  How would I do this? sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats is extremly slow I have a database that is around 4.5TB, since we have parallel inserts (to reduce daily load time) on one table (partitioned by month) the clustered index on this table tends to be heavily fragmented. When I do a select from sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (Limited) on this table it takes ages (> 4-5 hours). Is there a faster and better way to check the fragmentation levels on the partitions of this table, the current time this takes is completely inacceptable. Can I, as a reviewer, tell authors to get a native English speaker to proofread their paper? I am reviewing a paper for possible publication in a respected journal. The English in the paper is very poor. The authors are clearly not native English speakers. I want to write something to the effect of the following in my review.   I advise the authors to find a native English speaker to proofread the manuscript.    My question: Is this appropriate in a review?  On one hand, I think it is good, constructive advice. The paper would be significantly clearer if someone spent a few hours helping them fix it up. I can try to help them through reviewer comments, but it would be much easier if someone could help them in person. The authors are located in a western English-speaking country, so they should be able to find someone.  On the other hand, I don't want to be "the mean reviewer." I understand that English can be difficult to master for immigrants. Perhaps there is a more diplomatic way of saying this. Which badges do not cause a notification for experienced users?