I am trying to make a video for a waterflow surface around a fixed box. From my CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software I export the water surface as a sequence of .stl files, one per frame, so thousands of .stl files total.  In Blender, I want to render a video of that flow; So, how should I do that ?  All I can see is import a stl file, render the frame, save it, and do the same for the next stl file, and this for every stl files; but I have thousands of stl files...  EDIT: I understand that there is no easy way to do this, but I have read that one way to do it is to use a python script to either toggle the surface visibility after I imported them all, or either process one surface face after another. I have never used any script of this type before and I am new to blender, is there a similar script I could download and tweak to my case ? Or some kind of tutorial for that specific case ? I assume I am not the first one willing to do this type of video.  Thanks!
If I have a sequence of .obj (or any other readable format) files created from my own simulation code (say cloth simulation), can I use the rendering capabilities of blender to generate a video?   Is there a way to set the material properties for frame 1 and use the same or rest of the frames while the corresponding meshes are imported afresh from that ones I provide?
What's is the origin of Orbital Angular Momentum of electrons in atoms? Consider the Hydrogen 1s electron. We know that, in the quantum picture, the electron isn't orbiting or rotating at all, rather we simply state that the electron is spread over the entire space with the probability of finding it being maximum a radial distance $R$ (=Bohr radius) away from the nucleus. This helps explain why the electron does not radiate EM radiation while in the atom.  But, with this understanding, I do not understand the source of the orbital angular momentum. Is it intrinsic like the spin? Are static fields open for garbage collection? Given an hypothetical utility class that is used only in program setup:  class MyUtils {    private static MyObject myObject = new MyObject();    /*package*/static boolean doStuff(Params... params) {        // do stuff with myObject and params...    } }   will myObject be garbage collected when it is no longer being used, or will it stick around for the life of the program? I'm trying to follow the  (on my Ubuntu 10.04 VM).  The first step is:  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/toolchain   But when I run that I get:  Error reading https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/toolchain: &lt;urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out&gt;   I'm guessing the problem is with my configuration for my employer's proxy server, particularly for HTTPS.  When I opened  in Firefox, I got "The connection has timed out".  I then went into Firefox Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings... and set HTTP Proxy to "gateway" and Port to 8080, and checked "Use this proxy server for all protocols".  Then the page loaded.  This supports my theory.  I've tried setting the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables (both lower and upper case):  $ set | grep -i proxy HTTPS_PROXY=https://gateway:8080 HTTP_PROXY=http://gateway:8080 http_proxy=http://gateway:8080 https_proxy=https://gateway:8080   I also tried changing them to:  $ set | grep -i proxy HTTPS_PROXY=gateway:8080 HTTP_PROXY=gateway:8080 http_proxy=gateway:8080 https_proxy=gateway:8080   And I tried adding this second line to /etc/apt/apt.conf:  Acquire::http::proxy "http://gateway:8080/"; Acquire::https::proxy "https://gateway:8080/";   But I continue to get the same error.  How do I troubleshoot this?  Update: I followed the instructions in the  to  and got further:  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/toolchain Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 1DD749B890A6F66D050D985CF1FCBACA7BE1F97B gpg: requesting key 7BE1F97B from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: Total number processed: 0   I wonder if the "HTTP fetch error" means I also need to add "Defaults env_keep = http_proxy" to /etc/sudoers...  Update #2: I added:  Defaults env_keep="http_proxy" Defaults env_keep="https_proxy"   ...as in , but I still get the same "gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host" error.  And this is curious:  $ sudo env | grep proxy https_proxy=https://gateway:8080   ...because http_proxy isn't there.  Any advice is appreciated.  Update #3: Since the host of my VM is a laptop, I took it home and tried there (with no proxies):  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/toolchain Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 1DD749B890A6F66D050D985CF1FCBACA7BE1F97B gpg: requesting key 7BE1F97B from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: key 7BE1F97B: public key "Launchpad Linaro Overlay PPA" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)   It worked.  So problem is related to proxy configuration.  But I suppose I have a workaround. Is the cofinite topology on an uncountable set first countable? Let $X$ be any uncountable set with the cofinite topology. Is this space first countable?  I don't think so because it seems that there must be an uncountable number of neighborhoods for each $ x \in X$. But I am not sure if this is true. Looking for a basic PostGIS viewer to use as basis for own application I'm looking for a rather basic PostGIS viewer. It should be possible to pan, zoom and retrieve coordinate information on mouse click. No need to support coordinate transformations. It should introduce as little further dependencies as possible. Preferably written in C++. How do I drill a 2⅛ inch door knob hole over an existing 1½ inch hole? I need to replace the door knob for this interior door:    The door knobs I've found at the stores require a 2⅛ inch hole.  Mine is only 1½:    Did door knobs used to be smaller?  Is there some place I can find a replacement door knob that will fit my door?  If I need to modify the door to fit a modern door knob, will the new hole completely overlap the old? and can I reuse the latch hole? I would very much like that the the appendix sections of the Table of Contents doesn't have a section numbers, dots, and page numbers. If I do the following  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tocloft} \addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{section}} \renewcommand{\cftdot}{} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \newpage \section{Appendix} \section*{Another Letter} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Another Letter} \end{document}   then the section "Another Letter" is left aligned, so it doesn't look like the  others.  Question  Is it possible to have "Another Letter" styled the same way as normal TOC entries, but just without section number, dots, and page number? bisectors of an angle in a triangle intersect at a single point - proof verification Let´s consider a general triangle ABC. Let´s draw two angle bisectors from vertices A and B.  It is obvious that these two angle bisectors intersect at a single point X. Since X lies on the angle bisector from A its distance from side b is the same as its distance from side c. As X also lies on the angle bisector from B, its distance from side c is the same as its distance from side a.  By transitivity the distance from the point X to the side b has to be the same as the distance from X to the side a. Therefore the angle bisector from C (which is the set of points equidistant from b and a) has to go through X.  It seems as a very simple argument. Is it correct? ASP.NET Stress Testing Is there a way to test an application where you simulate a hundred different clients connecting to a IIS server and asking the same data? At the customer where our project is running they have 400 computers and they often do stress tests with all computers. I on the other hand have only got my laptop... (and a development server).  (In my case the data is asked through a WebORB Gateway). 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That is, copy a file to my local machine from the far machine (assuming I have password or key access to all machines along the way)? Normal subgroup of a normal subgroup Let $F,G,H$ be groups such that $F\trianglelefteq G \trianglelefteq H$.  I am asked whether we necessarily have $F\trianglelefteq H$. I think the answer is no but I cannot find any counterexample with usual groups. Is there a simple case where this property is not true? I recall :    It was one that I knew could use a bit more spit and polish, but I didn't have the inclination or energy to edit it myself, so I skipped it.  I wander my way over to  (10K only), and look at the listing...    ...so, when did I approve this again? I skipped the question; that doesn't mean I gave my tacit approval, does it?  Seems like the dashboard needs to agree with the suggested edits view. 80's/90's movie: man and woman driving through a red desert planet I am trying to identify a sci-fi movie from the 80's or 90's, with the following parameters:  Setting:    Scenes of a red desert planet   Culture:    Either people roam fairly solo and try to acquire resources to survive, or you live in a weird society where if a stranger is captured he needs to play in a game of fight to the death.  Mobility:      One foil character has a giant battle-bot-looking tank as his form of transportation through the desert. Protagonist has a car that has a plastic half bubble on top to look out from.   Robot:      The protagonist runs around in the beginning of the film with a female robot/android whose face is melted off after it has acid touch its face.(This scene happens next to the protagonist's rover)  Love interest:      Somehow protagonist comes across female protagonist in desert. She smells really bad and is hungry. They sleep outside, and he tells her to sleep away from him. He uses a thermal blanket(the first I ever saw in my life). She wakes up next to him, smelling horrible. He bathes her in some water hole they find(as if water were not scarce and they could just waste water.)   Pupa monsters:      Scene where they are in a building and they are trying to get out. They come across a room that is white, in which multiple giant, white, snot, pupa are hanging securely from the ceiling. Through curiosity, they disturb them, and now they have to get out of that room fast.  Boss Antagonist:      Pervert bionic man, that is actually attached to a giant robotic arm, as only form of movement. He is in black and has a pale bald head as his most human looking part. Nothing happens when I press "Submit" on duplicate suggestion For example, in . I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. If it makes any difference, my system is a Dell Inspiron 1520.   I encounter a problem whenever I shutdown or restart; it kills all running processes (as far as I can tell), but once I get past the shutdown text screen and the screen goes black,  my computer doesn't power off. The fans still run and the screen is still on, etc. I have to hold down the power button in order to complety shut down.   Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? How to deal with cross-thread access exceptions? Join CSV file to shapefile I wanted to join a CSV file to a shapefile.  When I identified a field to facilitate the join, e.g.,   map &lt;- spChFIDs(map, as.character(map$ID))   it returned     Error in spChFIDs(SP, x) : lengths differ   Can anyone advise?