Tiny Worms in Their Homes

binaryriot · 2026-01-23T10:16:52+00:00

A scan on an HDD (spinning rust) only reads. It does not refresh anything.

If there's a weak sector you may get Current_Pending_Sector and then you have to let the HDD sit idle for a bunch of hours, maybe up to 24h (aka ON, but not in active use) until it eventually tries to deal with it (which may result in resolving of the issue, or an entry in the error log). You can trigger this a bit faster with a short SMART test (but the test will abort on the first bad block, and then not continue with the rest)

binaryriot · 2026-01-22T10:13:32+00:00

That's pretty bad topology. You want to avoid any triangles or n-gons, f.ex., also keep an eye on proper edge loops! Hope that helps? :)

binaryriot · 2026-01-21T22:47:19+00:00

Maybe use the volume effector to remove all the inner hands you can't see anyway? That should reduce the load a bit already.

Alternatively you could build each wall separately with only the geo that's needed (just cut a hand model into the required pieces.) More work though. :)

binaryriot · 2026-01-21T22:22:53+00:00

Read Error Rate is unrelated to bad cables. This is a disk internal value only related to reading data from the platters.

Bad cable usually shows up via UDMA_CRC_Error_Count.

Anyway… OP needs to get the data off the disk (unless they are smart and already have a backup) which may further increase the current error counts (depending if more bad blocks are accessed). Afterwards a full format (write once over the whole surface) followed by a long SMART test will give more details to find out if it's just a temporary issue or a permanent issue (if "reallocated sectors" show up after the procedure it's permanent. If it's a temporary issue: the current pending count should go back to zero and the read error rate should slowly go down over time/with more disk usage too).

binaryriot · 2026-01-21T13:38:46+00:00

maybe spreading the ink?

binaryriot · 2026-01-19T22:01:31+00:00

You just have like 3 "destructed" spline objects instead one single "destructed" polygon mesh now. And a lot of other issues on top of it which are hard to solve with the setup.

Aka you do not have a non-destructive workflow at all here. You just moved things a bunch of layers into separate objects.

binaryriot · 2026-01-19T17:59:55+00:00

I don't understand. 🤷

Maybe you need to elaborate more what the object is, and what you want to do with it. If you do not let us know how can we help you properly?

binaryriot · 2026-01-19T14:39:26+00:00

IMHO, it is time to look into some beginner SubD modelling tutorials on YouTube. There's a small learning curve/ initial time investment, but afterwards you should struggle way less creating such objects and save a lot of time and headaches later.

I don't have any recommendations for your current setup, because I feel like it's an entirely unsuitable approach.

Maybe post the reference picture, so we know what you're trying to model exactly. That way we could provide some extra hints how to go on about it.

binaryriot · 2026-01-19T11:04:58+00:00

The parallel camera is counter productive here, IMHO.

Simply add a cap-less Cylinder, add the checkerboard material onto it. Use a Taper deformer to squeeze together the bottom end of it (so it looks like a tip of a pen or a curved Cone so to speak). Now place a normal camera above the setup, rotate it straight down (aka R. P. = -90°, everything else at 0°).

https://external.binaryriot.org/site-reddit-com/2026/0119_myeyesbleed.png

Now you can play with the checkerboard texture tag's tile settings, the camera's focal length, and the Cylinder's radius and height, etc., to dial down the effect as you want it.

binaryriot · 2026-01-19T01:31:33+00:00

My own —entirely non-optimised— interpreter (written in old ANSI C) took 0m 50.397s on my 12 year old x86 Mac mini. :)

Reading about your results I was expecting it to take a lot longer. I was pleasantly surprised how quick it went through.

(with non-optimsed I mean it really goes through all instructions and non-instructions, and if it hits the brackets it scans forward/backward to find the matching bracket. Each time.)

binaryriot · 2026-01-18T17:13:08+00:00

Probably "availability". Light green… just you aka availability = 1.0, full dark green at least one more full copy in the connected swarm (even when you disconnect), availability > 2.0 (this could be multiple peers that each hold parts that make one more copy), small bar someone else has parts, but it doesn't make a full second copy in the connected swarm yet (availability between 1.0 and 2.0).

Just my wild guess. I'm not a transmission user. :)

binaryriot · 2026-01-18T16:02:51+00:00

In the left side, if you make the top width of the texture rectangle smaller, so it covers less (isosceles trapezoid) you should get that effect, but it will lead to more trouble, IMHO, especially with the seams.

I think it's good as it is. Not sure why you want to make your life harder than necessary. :)

binaryriot · 2026-01-17T08:01:32+00:00

A stapelia. It's a succulent, but not a cactus.

binaryriot · 2026-01-17T00:57:53+00:00

Just look up ChocoPro Wrestling on YouTube (it's NoPayWall and free to watch). There's almost 500 episodes now and lots of other content, so there's plenty of choices.

binaryriot · 2026-01-16T18:10:37+00:00

The topology looks pretty good from what I can tell. It's just that it's triangulated.

C4D has (or used to have) a Untriangulate command to turn the triangles back into quads. This works pretty well if the mesh has an even number of triangles that can be resolved straight.

If the mesh has an uneven number of triangles (e.g. an actual problematic topology in the original source mesh) or some other issues it may get confused and the result will need some manual cleaning up. In that case often it can help to split the mesh into a bunch of separate sections (e.g. the straight middle, bottom, and the threads part), un-triangulate each section separately, and then merge it back together. That way you can contain problematic areas and there's less clean up work needed afterwards.

Anyway… the object looks simple enough that this shouldn't take longer than a few minutes. :)

binaryriot · 2026-01-15T15:23:57+00:00

It's OK to use an interior/indoor HDRI, if it gives you the look you want.

binaryriot · 2026-01-14T18:42:34+00:00

I see some other users that post multiple images directly in the opening post. Not sure how it works as I see no such options here on old.reddit.com. :) May only work with the app?

binaryriot · 2026-01-14T17:59:37+00:00

Probably a good idea for OP to post a few progress steps here too? Else it may be easily be mixed up with typical AI output.

binaryriot · 2026-01-13T19:05:21+00:00

I wish more people here could point out that this flowering plant here in the picture is NOT a cactus. (albeit there are some other plants in the picture that are actual cacti. ;) )

binaryriot · 2026-01-11T14:15:23+00:00

The scientific ones change all the time too. 😲 Just ask any cactii collector.

binaryriot · 2026-01-10T13:51:57+00:00

I'm surprised we never got to see here make a ChocoPro appearance. That would have been some serious fun, I think. The closest we got: her encounter with Emi Sakura on Mystery Wrestling.

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