Monotone/ desaturated reflection material in Blender/ Cycles Does anybody know how to get desaturated reflection (monotone) made from colorful object? Blue object, white plane beneath. With standard settings the reflection is blue. I would like to have it black and white. I tried adding HUE/SATURNATION node to diffuse or glossy shader (connected into mix shader) but this doesn't seem to work… I know it's possible with compositing but it's a bit tedious…. Any idea?
How to change the shadow color in Blender Cycles? I want to change the color of the shadow casting by a cube to green. While it's very easy to do it in Blender Internal (you select the lamp, go to the Lamp data header and change the shadow's color in the Shadow panel) in Cycles there're no such options. How to achieve it in Cycles?
Do Arcane Ward's starting hit points include the INT modifier once or twice? An abjuration wizard's Arcane Ward states:     [...] The ward has hit points equal to twice your wizard level + your Intelligence modifier.   So how many hit points is this supposed to be?  \$ (2 \times WizardLevel) + INT_{mod}\$  or  \$2 \times (WizardLevel + INT_{mod})\$ ?  I feel like the phrasing hints toward the first calculation, but it's still somewhat ambiguous. Purpose of asterisk before a CSS property I'm trying to recall the title of a young adult-targeted book. It was probably published by Scholastic, or at least sold through their take-home pamphlets, which means it was probably published before I started high school in 1996. It's about a group of teenagers who receive invitations to play a game at an invitation-only arcade. When they go there, they are put in an immersive VR game in which they must learn to survive on an alien planet. I believe the game ends and they wake up back in the real world after they fall asleep on the alien one. They are invited back the the game a couple times, and then it turns out…      …they go to play the game again, but they are unable to exit it. Eventually they realize that they actually are on an alien planet now, and that the previous game-playing sessions were just training for the real thing. I believe the epilogue states that all of the players have coupled up and the females have become pregnant, and they are optimistic about populating the new planet.   I think it was told in the first-person perspective of a female player. I don't think there was a real protagonist or strong conflict; just the group of players learning how to survive in the game. One of the other players had a photographic memory and used it to map the planet's surface. I think the cover art featured of a girl wearing a VR headset over her eyes, with her hair being blown back and her mouth open in surprise. How do I keep running a Service the whole time? How to list of all the tables defined for the database when using active record? How do I get a list of all the tables defined for the database when using active record? How to revert uncommitted changes including files and folders? Today while troubleshooting a service broker problem, I discovered that the database owner was the Windows login of an employee who had left the company. His login had been removed and thus the query notifications were failing.   Supposedly the best practice for dealing with this is to make 'sa' the database owner. We changed it and that cleared out the queue.   My (very elementary) question: what is the database owner and what is its purpose? Add-on for blocking sites in Google Search Finding minimum-area-rectangle for given points? I have a directory containing a large number of files. I want to delete all files except for file.txt . How do I do this?  There are too many files to remove the unwanted ones individually and their names are too diverse to use * to remove them all except this one file.  Someone suggested using   rm !(file.txt)   But it doesn't work. It returns:  Badly placed ()'s    My OS is Scientific Linux 6.  Any ideas? What good are free groups? In , one learns two definitions of free groups associating with sets.        Let $A$ be a set, the free group of $A$, $F(A)$ is the initial object in the category $\mathcal{C}$, where \begin{equation} \operatorname{Obj}(\mathcal{C})=\{A\xrightarrow{g}G\}, \end{equation}where the codomain $G$ are groups, and \begin{equation} \operatorname{Hom}(\mathcal{C})=\{\text{Commutative Diagrams } A\xrightarrow{g_1}G_1\xrightarrow{\phi}G_2\xleftarrow{g_2}A\}  \end{equation} where $\phi$ are group homomorphisms.   Also $F(A)$ has the concrete construction with elements being non-redundant words with alphabet $A$, and the group multiplication being juxtaposition and reduction.      But what good are free groups? Why are they useful?  says they are useful in topology, but does not explain why explicity.   Can someone give some examples that an undergraduate can understand? I am asking about examples that can show the usefulness of this abstract construction. So I guess the identification of $\mathbb{Z}=F({a})$ does not really count. What does the complex electric field show? How do I apply differential cryptanalysis to a block cipher? I have read a lot of summaries of block ciphers particularly with regards to the NIST competitions stating that reduced-round block ciphers are – for example – vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis.  I have a general idea that the application of differential cryptanalysis is to look at the difference between inputs;  makes that fairly clear. However, I could take any two inputs for any given block cipher and I am pretty certain I'd be staring at random differences.    I am aware this is the idea of a well written block cipher; however, assuming a broken or vulnerable cipher (feel free to provide simple examples) how do I go about choosing differences to try?  Are there any clues in algorithm design that would inform a decision on which values to choose?  How does being vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis impact a cipher in the wild?  If all I have are differences between known plain-texts and known keys as my analysis and a captured ciphertext as my data to exploit, what can I actually deduce? Making a string out of a string and an integer in Python Let $X\subset \mathbb{R}$ Lebesgue measurable, $|X|<|\mathbb{R}|$, is it true that $X$ is null? How to correctly install libpng12-0 on the Ubuntu 19.10? How to reset main user account? My main account got messed up, as I tried to fix it things went downhills.   keyboard mess - tried unity --restore and deleting .gconf2*, fail deleted .* in ~, total havoc. Chromium and Firefox crashes etc.   Now, another user account is fully functioning, but I really want my regular username back.  Is there any way to completely wipe the settings for the messed up account or copy the profile from the functioning user? Is a passport needed when flying within Mexico as a U.S permanent resident? How to Sort a 2D array? How and why do you use an image histogram? I realize that an image histogram is a graphical display of an images tonal distribution (i.e. horizontal darks to lights, vertical pixel distribution), but how does one really use it and why? I mean, can't you determine everything you need just by looking at the image?