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Curt:
Have you tried looking at the TheBrain? It has many conceptual similarities to Houdini.
http://www.thebrain.com/#-50-40hz (December 05, 2008, 03:36 PM)
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Quite pedagogic, it seems. But expensive, if one cannot settle with the free version:

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40hz:
Quite pedagogic, it seems. But expensive, if one cannot settle with the free version:
-Curt (December 05, 2008, 07:48 PM)
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Curt: I liked your phrase "quite pedagogic." ;D

But you're right. I tried it, and much as I wanted to like it, I still couldn't see what it brought to the party. It's visually impressive, but to my mind it falls more under the "clever hack" rather than the "useful tool" category. I personally think the claims made for it are more than a little inflated.

A year or so ago, you'd run into websites that were using TheBrain as a sort of front-end. Lately, however, I'm not seeing any. Makes me wonder if I'm not the only one that found the concept cool to think about, but lacking in practical applicability.

Now maybe I'm too stupid to grasp what TheBrain is all about, but so far as I can tell, there isn't much Emperor to be found inside that slick clothing.

Still, I've heard this piece of software mentioned in reverential tones in some of the forums I frequent, so I thought I'd bring it up since it touches on some of the topics under discussion here.

Question: Has anyone done any non-trivial project with TheBrain? Or can anyone point us to someplace that's doing something useful with it?

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