1. At 1pm Eastern, Cubesque had 140 lines unfilled (142 if you count the paragraph break and the end text)

In minutes, that would put it up around 3:20/3:30 EST, the time when qDot's talk is supposed to start.

There's also this twitter entry from last night:
http://twitter.com/qDot/statuses/41406922
"GDX slides done with 16 hours left before talk. Its not procrastination anymore! Also: savannah is neat."

A bit more than a coincidence: 16 is the cube root of 4096 (the number of lines on cubesque)

Posted at 1:07PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Elle Pollack

2. Well, today or on monday he said ;-)

I also wrote another blog post after reading the wiki and what it might mean. Actually it might mean that these things are not that easy to create.

And I think the ones in the picture might be possible with rev1 already. I think that these are just 1 prim.

We will find out soon I guess.

Posted at 2:13PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Tao Takashi

3. The sculpted prim resolution is 64 * 64 = 4096 = the number of lines on cubesque.
The RGB values on cubesque encode a Sculptie displacement map, I'm betting.
Anyone with Maya and the patience to confirm this?

Posted at 2:37PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Eggy Lippmann

4. @eggy: Maybe! This is what a "normal map" looks like: http://planetpixelemporium.com/tutorialpages/normal2.html

I suspect that "the journey ends here" will turn into a link when the time arrives..it may be the rendered map or it may be a webstream link from Georga or it may even be a download link to a Beta client.

Posted at 3:06PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Elle Pollack

5. Oh my god it's full of stars...I mean, Cubesque is full of cubes - BG images

Posted at 3:19PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Elle Pollack

6. Well, Qarls php skills work, but he forgot to disable virtual directories on his website! The source to his script is visible to all...

Posted at 3:32PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Stephen Zenith

7. And CubeOverload has changed to display the final RGB texture that the color array represents.

And the php is from qDot, not qarl.

"if($currentgap > $fullgap)
{
//Blogger Blackout until after GDX talk.
//Well.
//Unless someone in the talk has internet access and twitter or a blog or something.
//But really, they should be listening. 'cause it's an interesting talk, really.

//Boy, I hope their aren't any bugs in this.
}"

Posted at 3:38PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Elle Pollack

8. From: http://www.cubesque.com/index.open.source
//Blogger Blackout until after GDX talk.
//Well.
//Unless someone in the talk has internet access and twitter or a blog or something.
//But really, they should be listening. 'cause it's an interesting talk, really.

//Boy, I hope their aren't any bugs in this.

Posted at 3:38PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Damien

9. http://www.cubeoverload.com/whywhywhy.jpg

Posted on cubeoverload, looks like the 3D displacement map type texture as described on the wiki entry.

Posted at 3:40PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Laser Pascal

10. Any idea how to view the displacement map (whywhywhy.jpg) in 3D?

Posted at 3:56PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Zak Escher

11. By loading whywhywhy.jpg into a paint program you can sort of tell the displacement map is for a cube viewed on edge. At least that's what it looks like to me.

Posted at 4:20PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Zak Escher

12. Playing with it in 3D Studio Max at the moment. Made a .5 m^3 cube, set up a material, applied the image as a displacement map and tried it with various settings. So far haven't gotten anything but skewed cubes. I haven't got Maya to test it in.

Hopefully we get directions next.

Posted at 4:40PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Elle Pollack

13. 4 8 16 32... 64!

a new age upon us
as angels without wings
sailed forth

out of colors,
new power
to shape the world

>> http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/04/27/the-advent-of-an-illustrious-age-of-sculpted-prims/

Posted at 4:49PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Torley Linden

14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/474819913/in/photostream/

Posted at 6:18PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Elle Pollack

15. So, Torley was in on it all along. Gone down in my estimation after this.

Posted at 8:46PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Stephen Zenith

16. "So, Torley was in on it all along. Gone down in my estimation after this."

- How come, Stephen? There's probably all sorts of things in the works that Torley (and others) can't or don't tell us about, until they are just about ready for release. Sorry if I misunderstood your comment.

Peace

Posted at 9:14PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Simondo Nebestanka

17. So Robin just told me that it's unlikely to be released today as they don't like updates on fridays.

She wasn't sure if it will be in the monday release (if there is one) but of course we all do hope it is (she wanted to ask Joe but he was on the phone.. why do they still have phones?)

Weekend would be great though to play with it.

Posted at 9:25PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Tao Takashi

18. Well Joe *finally* got off the phone, and I can tell you that we'll be building a beta client next week that will include sculpties.

Posted at 10:41PM on Apr 27th 2007 by Robin

19. Well, this was the most interesting type of "viral marketing" for a new breakthrough in rendering technology inside Second Life that I had ever seen... surreal, but, very very effective!

Great idea, much nicer than the old "Magellan Linden discovers a new continent" approach...

Posted at 11:43AM on Apr 28th 2007 by Gwyneth Llewelyn