Illustrator is a great damn program. It's a bit counter intertuative because it's older than photoshop, but once you get used to thinking in vectors it's really not that bad. A good ploce to start is make a drawing in photoshop/scan a pen or pencil drawing, open the image in Illustrator and choose Object->Live Trace-> Make. This will create a vector drawing from your raster image giving you a better understanding of the philosophy behind Illustrator.
You turn you spear around and plunge it deep into your chest while screaming "I AM BEUWOLFF!!"
Your trick to make the enemy think you're batsh*t loco works, but kills you in the process. You die a strange and foolish death.
GAME OVER.
It doesn't change. Compare with the .gifs:
http://home.comcast.net/~linasach/knobspin2.gif (Culled backface version) http://home.comcast.net/~linasach/knobspin3.gif (Heavily extruded version)
It's funny you link that .gif. I saw that gif and I got really annoyed that illusion sucked. If you look at the visual clues, it only spins one way. So I created this to show the same, but actually have it be an illusion which way it spins. That .gif spawned this ytmnd.
Try staring at a particular point on the model. For example, stare at the tip of the knob at appears to bounce back-and-forth. Stare at the edge the base and it spins either way.
And yes, it is actually spinning a full 360. It is not bouncing back and forth.
If you don't believe me, compare with these 2 images:
http://home.comcast.net/~linasach/knobspin2.gif (Culled backface version)
http://home.comcast.net/~linasach/knobspin3.gif (Heavily extruded version)
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