Too Many Ideas - Archive for September, 2006
More Smarty Templates
Sunday, September 17th, 2006I’ve been converting my site to smarty templates today. The job isn’t finished yet but I’ve made a good start on the templates and the code to call them.
The West Wind Rules his Realm
Saturday, September 16th, 2006A quick picture rendered in Vue 5 Infinite.
Spray on EcoSystems for Vue
Friday, September 15th, 2006A new python script for Vue 5 Infinite that coats the outside of an object with an EcoSystem. It won’t cover all faces because of the way it works. It will cover a sphere, cube or cone. For more information read the README file in the zip archive. Spray on EcoSystems for Vue
BBC Perpetuating the McDonalds Coffee Case Myths
Thursday, September 14th, 2006There are news sources I trust to do a good job and news sources that I don’t. Usually I’d put the BBC in the first camp. However today’s piece Starbucks sued for pulling offer got my hackles up. I don’t know anything about that case, it sounds silly but then that may be the media […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 10)
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 9). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Outlaw Archetype “Rules are meant to be broken.” Outlaws seek revenge and revolution. They want to bring about the destruction of what is working. Their tactics are disruption, shock and outrage. […]
Pepakura Basics
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Between watching CSI:Miami and one of my favourite West Wing epidsode “The Supremes” on DVD I’ve played a little more with Pepakura designer. Just trying to get to grips with getting workable meshes out of it that have some curvature in the shapes without being too fiddly to assemble. Looking forward to getting some suitable […]
Pepakura Experimental Space Vehicle Number 1
Monday, September 11th, 2006I blogged about Pepakura Designer last Saturday in my imaginatively titled "Pepakura Designer". I got my activation key last night and started messing around with it. The screen shot above is of my first experiment – a simple space ship in the style of a golden era science fiction design. Unfortunately it has a small […]
impworks Websites as Graphic
Saturday, September 9th, 2006The slightly pointless image above was made using Made using Websites as Graphs and is of my (Mark Caldwell’s) web site – impworks.
Pepakura Designer
Saturday, September 9th, 2006Came across a little shareware application that will take simple 3d models and produce a design for a paper mesh of the model. It can read a lot of fairly standard formats like wavefront object (.obj), lightwave (.lwo) and 3d studio (.3ds). It can also read some texture maps too. I’ve not got anything to […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 9)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 8). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). Leaving a Thumb Print on the World The Hero Archetype "Where there’s a will there’s a way." The hero’s core desire is to act courageously. With heroes it’s all about winning and […]