May 4th, 2010 
Cindy Primitive Reviews
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*WABBIT* A CUTE PRIMITIVE 4 INCH WEIGHTED MOHAIR BUNNY*NO RESERVE* $15.79 |
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Boyds Bears Primitive Raggedy Ann and Andy Delray Sanibel NEW SEALED Retired 19″ $19.99 |
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Country Primitive Handcrafted Quilted Bear $8.95 |
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Primitive Fuzzy Baby Mouse Vtg Ribbon Style Bear 4″ Doll ★ Patti’s Ratties Ornie $36.00 |
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Primitive Raggedy Ann Bunny 7″ Sunflower Annie Rabbit Doll ★ Patti’s Ratties $6.50 |
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Russ Collectible Bear Sam with Patriotic Primitive Country Scarf $8.00 |
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PRIMITIVE 21″ PLUSH RABBIT~Fully Jointed~In SHABBY ROSES SWEATER~WONDERFUL $9.99 |
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Mohair Bear Wear,Trouser Suit,Primitive/Aged10″ – 12 ” $13.44 |
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Ooak Primitive Garden Bunny Doll TMAP*4SHG $69.00 |
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PRIMITIVE Mohair RED White ELEPHANT bear Doll * PEA $19.37 |
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Fruit Holder $9.98 Fruit Holder Two levels to store and ripen fruit. Separate hanger lets bananas ripen at there own pace. Detachable hook. Wire basket 11″W supports banana hanger without bruising, 17″H…. |
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Vintage Canisters: Sugar, Flour, Cofee, Tea $28.00 The Vintage Canister Set is a set of 4 natural metal canisters that include metal lids with handles. The largest canister is 10 inches tall with a 5-1/4 inch diameter and has a label that reads “Red Rooster Brand Flour.” The next size is 8-1/2 inches tall with a diameter of 4-3/4 inches and has a label that reads “Sunbonnet Brand Sugar.” The next size is 7-1/2 inches tall with a diameter of 4-1/2 … |
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Penny Rug Table Mat $24.00 The Penny Rug Table Mat is created in a folk art style dating from the mid 19th century, to conserve fabric and to add much needed color to the home. With layered circles of color and blanket stitch embroidery it will add a simple but primitive charm to your home…. |
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Diva $5.71 Although traces of her synthpop roots certainly showed through, Annie Lennox’s solo debut, Diva, made it abundantly clear that her new material would veer away from gender-bending robotics of the early Eurythmics sound and continue toward the more emotionally grounded soul of later releases. On Diva, Lennox infuses each song with tenderly perceptive lyrics, hypnotic rhythms, and irresistibly soul… |
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A Wasteland Companion $16.26 The album, consisting of 12 stunning tracks, was made with 18 musicians and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol (UK). Ward s honey-soaked vocals, deft finger-picking, innate sense of melody and beguiling lyrics have already cemented his reputation as one of America s true musical treasures and A Wasteland Companion features some of… |
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Kinetik $11.98 Kinetik by PhutureprimitiveThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply…. |
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Basics (Part 2) $1.99 … |
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Natural Law $1.99 … |
3-D Primitives Can Be Converted Into Nurbs Surfaces
All the standard primitives can be converted into NURBS surfaces by going to the Modify panel, clicking the Edit Stack button and choosing Convert to NURBS Surface. This only works if no modifiers have been applied to the primitive. If you can dream it, you can build it using NURBS. The primary benefit of the NURBS method is that it has the modeling and editing flexibility of a Polygonal model, but it does not rely on complex meshes for detailed surfaces. In this respect, it is much like using a Patch surface. You can model simply using curves to define surfaces.
Those surfaces look rather low-detail in the viewports but can render at a much higher level of complexity. Many animators use NURBS to build characters. This is primarily because NURBS can give you both smooth, contoured surfaces and keep mesh detail relatively low. Characters tend to be very complex so using NURBS can significantly increase performance versus the same model in polygonal form.
Car manufacturers seem to be in love with NURBS modeling. Have you noticed how many smooth-looking cars are on the road these days? Much of this is due to the fact that they are adopting CAD design packages that model with NURBS technology.
Although your 3D program is capable of conceptual modeling objects like cars, there is currently no way to export NURBS data from that kind of applications. This means that the benefit of NURBS is lost as soon as the model is exported-this includes exporting to a format that supports NURBS, such as DWG. When speaking of shortcomings of NURBS models, it is difficult to point out serious problems.
NURBS models, for all intents and purposes, work in almost every situation. However, there is one area where NURBS just can not compete with polygons simplicity. NURBS models are designed to be complex eventually.
If you build a foundation based on complexity, you can rule out any type of simple modeling. For instance, if you model a box, copy it, and then convert box to a polygonal mesh and the other to a NURBS surface, you might be surprised.
The polygonal mesh is eight faces. The NURBS box is 34. That means that a simple model like a box has already over four times as many faces.
Aside from the complexity issue, you could point to the fact that it is very difficult to extrude sections of a NURBS model at right angles. For the most part, NURBS models want to have curvature. That means that even if a model looks like it has right angles, close inspection shows that it does, in fact, have some smoothness around the edges.
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