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Darksin wrote: Looks like Epcot has fallen by the wayside again. No expansion. No Upgrades. Nothing.

.....I think I need a hug. :(

So does this mean the end of Avatarland?

CBeilby wrote: This will be a 8' by 4' table layout, although with room to expand into an additional modular table and possibly shelf extensions.

Wow. I'll just sit here and be jealous, thanks.

The art museum up in St. Joe had a train layout for Christmas years ago -- totally cool, but they've never done it again. :( I do think that sort of thing is art, myself. :)

CBeilby wrote:So, after a day of work in XTrack CAD, I came up with this:

If you'd like a professional design consultation from someone who was the first President of the Layout Design Special Interest Group and the founding director of the Kalmbach Memorial Library of the NMRA, please contact me off-list.

It's not just the WDW RR I've worked on. :D:

shilohmm wrote:The art museum up in St. Joe had a train layout for Christmas years ago -- totally cool, but they've never done it again. :( I do think that sort of thing is art, myself. :)

Not all model railroads are art, but then neither are all paintings.

The great thing about model railroads is that they range from a circle of tinplate around the Xmas tree to large operations that meticulously copy in miniature the locomotives, cars, buildings, scenery, and even the operating rules of a seleted prototype. When done well, photographs can fool even a trained eye.

Personally, I think that a model railroad is a storytelling device. It can evoke a time, place, and mood as well as any other form of art, plus it's a moving device that shows how things change in real time. It's a popular hobby for Imagineers, I've met several over the years in the hobby, with John Olson probably being the most prominent.

And I think we all agree that when the Imagineers cut loose, the result can be exquisitely artistic. Think of your model railroad as a miniature theme park, and you're on your way!

Plus, anyone who thinks the Santa Fe was a class operation....

Zazu wrote:Not all model railroads are art, but then neither are all paintings.

I tend to compare model train layouts more to domestic art, myself, since they can both totally fail as art and still have a useful function -- a artless quilt still keeps you warm; a model train in an artless layout still goes round and round or back and forth. :D:

Zazu wrote: Personally, I think that a model railroad is a storytelling device.

Anyone else seen the train layout in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry? It essentially tells the story of a train trip from Chicago to Seattle, but it's also got many little vignettes. You can spend an hour there and not see everything.

While having a deep and meaningful conversation with Mrs. Skyy Vodka, let me tell you the conversation me and the silly fool who married me just had.


Him: Make the morons get eat'n by gators!
Me: Naw.. to easy. They must cross a 50" ditch with gator!
Him: Then Lions!
Me: We don't have those.. how about a Florida Panther?! Same thing cute sleeker!
Him: Oh! I like this.. and then.. BOMBS!
Me: No dumbass, that's boring.. after the gators and the panthers... we have.. BRAZILIAN STENCH!
Him:.... they're all dead.. aren't they?
Me: Isn't that the point?! ;)

Zazu wrote:Not all model railroads are art, but then neither are all paintings. ...

The main question is, do they have a brothel, like Crabbe Town?

DisneyMom has a lot in common with super computers.

Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.

hobie16 wrote:DisneyMom has a lot in common with super computers.

Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.

I must have a Superior Brain!!!!! :D: Did the computer look up Bigfoot Videos too? :p:

DisneyMom wrote:Did the computer look up Bigfoot Videos too? :p:

It's not that advanced. Yet. ;)

If it's not kitties it's dogs and crabs.