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nd receiving device to be used for whatever projects it may benefit i am making these implements free both free of charge and freely modifiable in the hopes that they may further the progress of science and industry in caledon and like minded communities a link to the kit is found at the end of this posting introduction this kit contains two items a prim scripted to transmit an integer in degrees 0 360 on a certain channel and a receiver contained in a circular gauge the gauge prim has its texture offset changed such that it indicates the value received normalised to percentage in this case the scripts and texture are released free of charge and as open source please improve and extend upon it figure 1 data transmitter in the path of a mushroom eating juvenile plesiosaur cryptoclidus sp application users will wish to replace the data transmitter script with something appropriate to their own work out of the box the transmitter when touched generates a random number representing degrees converts the floating point result into a string and broadcasts that string via llsay on a channel defined in the script the script in the receiver the dial itself actually listens on the defined channel for a string the string is then converted to a floating point value and the texture offset is changed by value 360 again representing degrees must one use degrees of course not the texture offset parameter is a 0 0 to 1 0 range so a decimal approach is actually simpler than the degree business actually the texture offset is 1 0 to 1 0 that is 0 to 1 in both forward and backward directions why then degrees a reasonable question the project included the notion of not just changing the texture offset but actually rotating the dial prim around its z axis as an actual dial would do in real life in that case the state of the dial in degrees think compass on a ship s binnacle would be the ideal currency for transmitting unfortunately as your writer did not read maths or physics at university all that work involving rotations and euler representations of quaternions had to give way to the more expedient and graceful method of simply shifting the texture around figure 2 scientist at leisure outside a public house viewing transmitted data on the receiving device possible uses the list here is fairly large limited only by imagination and the whims of lsl in short any programmed system involving multiple objects can use this system to transmit and display numeric data in an analogue fashion the initially intended audience consists of steampunk builders mad scientists tinkerers and anyone wishing to dabble in an old fashioned method of data display the current broadcasting method llsay has its own caveats the lsl wiki page on the function is recommended reading http www lslwiki net lslwiki wakka php wakka llsay improvements the author will be happy to hear any suggestions critiques and constructive criticism related to this system users are asked not to keep their derivative creations hidden under their hats but rather to share them with the community these scripts were not created by an expert so any formative feedback will be taken in the manner in which it was given figure 3 the location of the items in the offices of the royal society slurl http slurl com secondlife caledon 20tamrannoch 133 23 23 posted by kate nicholas f r s at 15 58 no comments labels products royal society monday 22 june 2009 movement of objects between virtual worlds in another forum i recently commented upon my success in moving objects from secondlife into an opensim environment namely the one on a second machine in my home for those readers who wish to experience some of this excitement themselves i offer this recipe 1 build something in sl go in to edit mode select all the prims in the object right click take give the resulting inventory item a name 2 log out of sl 3 download an alternate viewer which allows for object import and export i used the meerkat viewer install the new viewer 4 log back in to sl go to edit mode again and then rez the object from step no 1 above right click more more and then select export save to your desktop or whereever an xml file will be created 5 be patient the viewer will now download the object s description and each of the textures associated with the object a progress message will appear 23 textures remaining or somesuch 6 once completed log out of sl 7 now restart the meerkat viewer and log in to the alternate grid of your choice or as i did log in to your very own opensim enviroment at home n b the installation and configuration of one s own opensim system is well beyond the scope of this writing i encourage interested parties to read the opensim documentation at least twice possibly with a cuppa to aid in concentration 8 now that you are logged in to the alternative grid simply choose import from the file menu et voilà you have imported the build from sl to opensim caveats 1 meerkat only transfers prims and their textures no scripts are copied over those must be copied and pasted by hand 2 the viewer respects permissions and will only allow the export of items for which you have transfer permission this is not copybot 3 be patient with the import speed despite the horrid performance of the ll servers of late opensim does not yet boast any speed records for asset server function even on a dedicated single machine here is the result seen in a snapshot from my local opensim recreation of winterfell eventide before i had to give it up in the great void sim debacle of 2008 the entire structure was imported in a single maneuvre still in edit mode i moved the collection of objects to the appropriate coordinates then left edit mode i will need to find trees to replace the wonderful heart garden centre birch trees in sl and bring over my tunguska stumps c to finish the look but the proof of concept is sound here are some views of eventide before my exile anyone wishing additional details may contact me at their convenience regards katya posted by kate nicholas f r s at 20 50 2 comments labels eventide meerkat opensim secondlife winterfell thursday 30 april 2009 from the real proceedings dangers of being a female spider occasionally one finds an article outside of one s field of interest yet requiring attention this is one of those articles řezáč m the spider harpactea sadistica co evolution of traumatic insemination and complex female genital morphology in spiders proc r soc b published online before print april 29 2009 doi 10 1098 rspb 2009 0104 abstract available here this comes via proceedings b the biological sciences journal of the royal society in london not to be confused with the caledonian institution of a similar name readers with reasonable short term memory may recall a similar story regarding the mating practices of giant squids referred to in a prior posting rough sex at 40 000 leagues under the sea once again allow me to state my great joy in being a mammal more available from the bbc spider sex violent but effective posted by kate nicholas f r s at 14 03 no comments labels biology proceedings royal society saturday 4 april 2009 good news for catgirls and evil tiny kitties alike in a recently published article in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences researchers from the university of wisconsin madison show that cats central nervous system can repair itself restoring function lost to neurological disease duncan id brower a kondo y curlee jf jr schultz rd extensive remyelination of the cns leads to functional recovery proc nat acad sci 2009 published online before print april 2 2009 doi 10 1073 pnas 0812500106 link goes to the abstract full text available to subscribers a less weighty discussion of the paper is found at science daily http www sciencedaily com releases 2009 03 090330200722 htm this to me is brilliant news especially for the felines among us catgirls have you noted a decrease in your mental faculties after long sessions of dancing and catnip exposure evil tiny kitties have you longed for a way to reverse the effects of all those neurotoxin experiments gone terribly wrong i m happy to post any anecdotal results to add to the literature posted by kate nicholas f r s at 11 49 1 comment labels catgirls evil tiny kitty proceedings thursday 26 march 2009 the hapmouche event unexplained phenomena in caledon on sea editor s note a particular confluence of second and first life projects and deadlines have left me a bit behind on keeping up with scientific goings on my apologies to readers who have been left adrift without new reading material from the proceedings fortunately the event described below forced me to again pay proper attention to current happenings mr ray hapmouche forwarded me a curious note earlier this week dear dr nicholas i am writing you on the advice of sir edward pearce it was his opinion the the royal society would be best suited to investigate what has occured at my home in caledon on sea sometime on the 21st of march a flying vehicle of some sort crashed into my beloved home portobello there is very little left of my home or belongings but there is quite a lot left of the mysterious craft sir edward christine mcallister and myself were unable to identify the origins of the craft i am asking the society to investigate in the name of science and also to ascertain if this vehicle is a threat to caledon s security my home is located in caledon on sea 216 73 23 thank you for your time mrray hapmouche a most disturbing event to be sure no time to waste then in investigating the scene of destruction unfortunately lady eva seems to be preternaturally preoccupied with decorating her new castle and prof krogstad obliquely mentioned being deep in preparation for the world beard and moustache championships therefore i can only present some initial findings a fuller investigation will have to wait for the return of my sous scientists 1 synoptic view of the destruction clearly a goodly amount of energy expended in the craft s crash enough to destroy most of mr hapmouche s beloved home 2 the bisected craft note lack of charring around crater site an interesting find this no evidence of thermal or similar destruction around the crater definite displacement of the soil from the impact though odd red glow from inside the craft 3 aft view of the craft derby in foreground for scale the craft split amidships unclear if this was the intended opening method if the craft should open at all or the result of the excess structural loading at impact 4 closest photo attempted unusual plaque on hull and here is the most interesting bit an engraved plaque on the hull clearly sturdy enough to survive what appears to be an impromptu landing symbol based message heiroglyphs or an attempt at meta language communication 5 obvious combustion now visible from mt caledon vantage another interesting development my initial approach to the site was tentative as there was nothing aflame yet perhaps a non combustion propulsion system and with what side effects to the human body but upon my heading back towards tamrannoch a wash of heat behind me and the craft was on fire this view was from mt caledon with a large safety margin between myself and the conflagration once my wayward comrades return from their own pass times we shall be able to put in honest efforts with what i have labeled as the hapmouche event posted by kate nicholas f r s at 22 08 no comments labels caledon on sea expedition hapmouche event royal society saturday 28 february 2009 200 years ago in the real proceedings the royal society the scientific academy of the uk not the second life organisation of a similar name have been publishing scientific findings since 1665 that its journals have hosted an astounding array of seminal discoveries is praise enough but there is new reason to laud on the society the publishing section curiously named royal society publishing announced that until the end of march 2009 all content even back to 1665 is open to the public to celebrate their move to a new content delivery system all content free for another month i shall pause for a moment to allow my readership to catch its collective breath their understated list featured articles has a few entries from isaac newton edmund halley alexander volta edward jenner and j clerk maxwell naturally i dove in to catch up on some back reading in doing so i came across several entries that seemed apropos given the recent increase in interest in minerals and metallurgy across the commonwealth associated with the east avaria company goings on john hawkins account of the discovery of silver in herland copper mine proc r soc lond january 1 1800 1 42 43 of a peculiar lead ore of germany and the use thereof phil trans january 1 1665 1 10 11 charles hatchett an analysis of a mineral substance from north america containing a metal hitherto unknown phil trans r soc lond january 1 1802 92 49 66 open the image for a better view or follow this link to the full text pdf i suspect now i must comb all the back issues for information on what one can do with mushrooms as well posted by kate nicholas f r s at 00 01 no comments labels east avaria company proceedings royal society tuesday 10 february 2009 neanderthal music heard 30 000 years too late as part of the exhibition origins of early wales the national museum wales amgueddfa cymru commissioned an extraordinary composition music of the neanderthals musician simon thorne produced a 75 minute work of what he reckoned neanderthal vocal and instrumental music sounded like granted we shall never truly know exactly what the neanderthals sounded like but mr thorne has given us an intriguing reconstruction his work is bolstered by findings in a couple of recent books concerning the topic admittedly a niche topic the singing neanderthals the origins of music language mind and body steven mithen harvard university press 2006 isbn 0 674 02192 1 the mind in the cave consciousness and the origins of art david lewis williams thames hudson 2004 isbn 0 500 28465 2 results from the ongoing sequencing of the neanderthal genome suggest that they share a conserved version of the foxp2 gene first speculated to spread through the homo genus before the divergence of the species the foxp2 gene is thought to be closely associated with speech and interested readers should read the linked references for further information in short foxp2 confers some part of the vocal phenotype we humans enjoy as an amateur linguist i found it thrilling to imagine the story of beowulf being told around anglo saxon hearths circa 500 a d and am even further intrigued by the concept of reconstructions of a proto indo european language the language spoken 5 to 10 thousand years ago which gave birth to a majority of extant world languages today imagine then my excitement at the possibility of hearing even just for show singing from 30 000 years ago the mind boggles and i shall 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