How to model Ponies and other stuff? hello guys i need some help on how to model ponies, i couldn't start because i don't know what to do. Reference image is there, now what? YouTube is lacking of tutorial about modeling ponies. Hope to get some answer
How do I make a 3 dimensional character out of flat picture? I have a cartoon character (a lion) that is part of my business logo that I want to put into Blender and animate it somehow. Is there any way I can take a flat picture (JPEG) and transform it into a 3D image and then animate it in Blender?
Referencing equation counter value in custom float caption I have used the float package to create an equation float, eqfloat, so I can add captions to equations. Within the eqfloat I used the equation environment to typeset the math.  I want to keep the right hand arabic numbering within parentheses that is added by the equation environment but I also would like the eqfloat caption below the equation to use the same number as the equation environment.  The following code achieves this by making the eqfloat use the same counter as the equation environment and then manually adjusting the equation numbering within each eqfloat.   Is there a better way to make the eqfloat caption reference the current value of the equation environment counter?  Is it possible to prevent the custom float environment from increasing the counter and only to reference the current value of the equation counter?  \documentclass[a4paper]{article}  \usepackage[margin=25pt, labelfont=bf]{caption} \usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, pifont, float, color, url} \usepackage[pdftex, plainpages=false, pdfpagelabels, bookmarks=true]{hyperref}  \newfloat{eqfloat}{h}{eqflts} \floatname{eqfloat}{Equation} \makeatletter \let\c@eqfloat\c@equation \makeatother  \begin{document}     ...     \begin{eqfloat}         \begin{equation}             E = mc^2         \end{equation}         \addtocounter{equation}{-1}         \caption{Equation caption here.}         \label{eq:example}     \end{eqfloat}  \end{document} Mac-like alt-tab replacement for Windows 7? Is there an alt-tab replacement for Windows 7 that works in the same manner as command-tab and command-tick (tilde) on OS X?  Requirements:  1. Completely keyboard-shortcut-based, no mouse action should be necessary.  2. 2 keyboard shortcuts with the following behavior:  a.) alt+tab:       cycles through open applications (NOT windows... applications, meaning even if i have 10 firefox windows open, I only want to see firefox once in the list that comes up when i hit this shortcut)  b.) alt+`:     cycles through WINDOWS that are instances of the currently active application (meaning if firefox is my active window and i hit shortcut2, it will cycle through those 10 firefox windows, while ignoring any other windows from ANY other application).    Update 08:40 5/21: I tried out eidylon's suggestion, TopDesk.  It doesn't provide any of the functionality described here.  Other apps I've already tried:   VistaSwitcher Switcher Dexpot (awesome app, still using, but doesn't do what I want in this case... also looked for plugins but couldn't find one that does it) UltraMon Nvidia nView   update: Unfortunately I still haven't found a solution for this.  update: made this a community wiki in case anyone is ever able to find a solution for this. Understanding Join Attributes by Location in QGIS? I wonder if there is somewhere an explanation for the parameters that can be set when running the Algorithm "Join Attributes by Location" in QGIS 2.18.  I had a look here:       but there is no explanation. Any hints? I would like to close some view windows that I opened accidentally.  See the image below:    Edit: another note: I tried searching for the solution, but only found things like "Join Area", which don't seem to work in this situation. Remove space around tikz Bibtex style for "Statistics and Computing" I would like to create a bibtex style which answers the requirements of Statistics and Computing journal. How could I do that? Here is an example of how the bibliography should look like:  Journal article: Hamburger, C.: Quasimonotonicity, regularity and duality for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. 169, 321–354 (1995) Book: Geddes, K.O., Czapor, S.R., Labahn, G.: Algorithms for Computer Algebra. Kluwer, Boston (1992) Book chapter: Broy, M.: Software engineering — from auxiliary to key technologies. In: Broy, M., Denert, E. (eds.) Software Pioneers, pp. 10–13. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)  In the text, the references should be as follows:  Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Hamburger 1995).  Thank you for your help! Sublime Command not working in SSH server on Ubuntu 14.04? Is there a way to set up a default folder for Windows Explorer? I often use Win + E to pop up Windows Explorer, and then I usually have to navigate down into a few network folders to find my primary directory. Is there a way to set this folder as the default so that Windows Explorer always opens to this folder? How to get the date in a batch file in a predictable format? In a batch file I need to extract a month, day, year from the date command.  So I used the following, which essentially parses the Date command to extract its sub strings into a variable:  set Day=%Date:~3,2% set Mth=%Date:~0,2% set Yr=%Date:~6,4%   This is all great, but if I deploy this batch file to a machine with a different regional/country settings, it fails because month, day and year are in different locations.   How can I extract month, day and year regardless of the date format? Per line text gradient (ala beeline reader) First appearance of a predominately black cast in a TV show I was watching MeTV the other day, which is a fantastic station chock-full of old-time TV shows.  In one sitting I saw episodes of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Rifleman and Star Trek (TOS).  So it got me thinking...  None of these shows has many (if any) black actors.  And now I'm curious as to which TV show was the first to feature a predominantly black cast.  Anyone know?  I'm thinking back to What's Happening, Good Times, The Jeffersons...  But were there any before then? Help with packages in java - import does not work I'm a C++ developer - not a java developer, but have to get this code working...  I have 2 public classes that will be used by another product.  I used the package directive in each of the java files.    package com.company.thing;  class MyClass ...   When I try to compile a test app that uses that I add   import com.company.thing.*;   The javac compiler fails with errors about com.company does not exist.  (even if I compile it in the same directory as the class files I just made a package of)  I am sure I am doing something bone-headed and silly.  I've read the  pages and tried to set up a directory structure like /com/company/thing  etc, but either I have totally screwed it all up or am missing something else.  EDIT thanks for the suggestions - I had tried the classpath previously.  It does not help.  I tried compiling   javac -classpath &lt;parent&gt; client.java    and the result is:  package com.company does not exist   I have the code I want to import (the two java files) in \com\company\product.  I compile those fine.  (they contain MyClass) I even made a jar file for them.  I copied the jar file up to the parent directory.  I then did (in the parent directory with the client java file)   javac -cp &lt;jarfile&gt; *.java   the result is:  cannot access MyClass bad class file: MyClass.class(:MyClass.class) class file contains wrong class: com.company.product.MyClass Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.   EDIT  I got the client code to compile and run if I used the fully qualified name for MyClass and compiled it in the parent directory.  I am totally confused now.    compiled with no classpath set - just   javac *.java    in the parent directory - and it worked fine.  I can get a test app to compile, but that is not going to cut it when i have to integrate it into the production code.  Still looking for help.  EDIT:  Finally - not sure why it didn't work before - but I cleaned up all the files all over the directory structure and now it works.    Thanks Determining coordinates of a SHP file i have a SHP file of a building converted from a DXF file. This SHP file is unprojected and have no specific coordinates (origin 0,0). I find WGS84 coordinates (lat, long) of this building from Google Maps. My aim is to replace these coordinates to the SHP file on QGIS.  Could you explain the process step by step?  (I read lots of similar questions, about affine transformation. But i don't know the paramaters.)    What i ask is how to make this transformation in QGIS (step by step)?   SHP file coordinates (not projected)  Scale: 1:142.670.713  X1,Y1: 16.70824, 253.74534  X2,Y2: 1.03521,-6.34918  X3,Y3: 244.00248,-7.49189  Target WGS84 coordinates   X1,Y1: 41.047773, 28.896241  X2,Y2: 41.045452, 28.895929   X3,Y3: 41.045436, 28.899039    I need a second vector layer with coordinates. I have just a SHP file of a building converted from a DXF file. That is not projected. I know where this building is, and can find the WGS84 coordinates from Google Maps. My aim is add WGS84 coordinates to this SHP file and export to replace the building on Google Maps.  My Questions are:  1) I think my SHP file has measurements in meters and unprojected. I have WGS84 lat long coordinates from Google Maps. How can i project this SHP file, for being ready to transformation? Right Click -> Set Layer CRS -> Choose WGS84 EPSG: 4326. Is this enough?  2) qgsAffine plugin just need transformation matrix paramaters. But the answer of @Jochen Schwarze is a bit complex for me. Is there a online calculator? (Just give the source XYs and target XYs and calculate the parameters.)    I think, I have a projection problem before affine transformation. I have a DXF file of a building from AutoCAD. I saved this DXF file as a SHP file in QGIS. But this SHP file is converted from a plain DXF file and is not referenced/projected, it is drawn from coordinates 0,0 in AutoCAD in meters. And the drawing has meters, WGS84 has decimal degrees.  When I set Layer CRS as WGS84 in QGIS, the coordinates don't change.  How can I project this SHP file as WGS84 in QGIS? "The following packages have been kept back:" Why and how do I solve it? I just added a PPA repository for the development version of the GIMP, but I get this error:  $ apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get upgrade ... The following packages have been kept back:   gimp gimp-data libgegl-0.0-0 libgimp2.0   Why and how can I solve it so that I can use the latest version instead of the one I have now? Sheafs and closed immersion I absolutely hate it when I watch a video on YouTube and it automatically loads another video page after it's done playing.  This is especially annoying when I'm in the middle of typing a comment as it will cause me to lose what I have typed.  I'd like the video to simply stop and for no further action to take place once it is finished playing.  Is there any way to accomplish this? On the existence of a continuous bijection $f\colon [0,1]\to [0,1]\times [0,1]$ Let $f$ be a continuous function on $[0,1]$ such that $f([0,1])=[0,1]\times[0,1].$ Then show that $f$ is not one-one.  Hints will be appreciated. Recently I saw a widget on the Stack Overflow website which says Stack&nbsp;Overflow now has its own currency called "unicoins". According to this widget, a user can earn reputation, customize Stack Overflow by changing its colors and the user can also remove the vote down button from their questions and answers by spending "unicoins".  This widget does not look real, because this is out of standard of the Stack Overflow website.  Also today is 1st April. Is Stack Overflow fooling us?  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What is ubuntu 14.04 doing while showing "stopping early crypto disks"? I created a virtual machine to install ubuntu 14.04 on VirtualBox 4.2.12.*. I created virtual CD to install it with fixed-size virtual disk of 200GB. After successful installation, it restarted as usual. But after showing message of below, it hangs. Actually, I created virtual machines to install ubuntu at Virtual Box successfully several times. It's very easy. The installed ubuntu versions ranged from 9.10, 13.04 and even 14.04 before. I don't know why this time it hangs at restarting after successful installation. The only difference between this failure restart and previous successful ones is that the virtual disk is much larger, 200GB. It failed three times.  * Deactivating swap... [OK] * Stopping remaining crypto disks... [OK] * Stopping early drypto disks... [OK] Brand new disk brakes are barely stopping the bike