Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
Nighttime Hailstorm
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011A photograph of the overnight torrential downpour and hailstorm with thunder and lightning from the bank holiday weekend just gone. You can see a few of the hailstones bouncing off the top of the street light as bright dashes flying away from it.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides London Set Photograph
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011In September 2010 on a trip to London I stumbled into the sets being built for the London sequences of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. It’s funny how your memory can play tricks on you – I thought I had quite a few pictures of […]
Dark Reflections
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011I think this is the first time DarkDwarf and I have independantly taken photographs of the same thing for our blogs. Here is a shot of the Port of Liverpool Building reflected in Mann Island Development I took a couple of weeks ago but fell through the cracks of being busy doing other things. Scarily […]
Hardwick Old Hall Photograph
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011The ruins of Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire, photographed from below through the hedge beside The Hardwick Inn.
Super Injunction and Libel Woman
Friday, April 29th, 2011A Vue 9.5 Infinite, CityEngine and SkinVue 9 Experiment Every time I hear someone talking about the latest Super Injunction I can’t help but think it sounds like one of the lesser known super hero comics. Someone who comic fans love but the rest of us will only discover when they get a movie. No […]
Cloud Picture Made with Vue 9.5 Infinite
Friday, April 22nd, 2011One of the most popular pages here is Cloud Layer Sculpting in Vue and with all the new Vue 9.5 cloud features I thought I would be a good idea to blow the dust of it and rework it to use the new features. Here is the original for comparison… Update: I’ve been busy and […]
Blue Yonder – A Vue 9.5 Landscape
Thursday, April 14th, 2011So this is my first proper Vue 9.5 render post. A single cloud layer over an infinite procedural terrain with two texture layers controlled by altitude and slope angle. I sometimes feel I’m cheating a bit when I post one of these because Vue does so much of the work while letting me get on […]
Rebuilt Site
Monday, April 4th, 2011Just finished an under the hood (no visible changes on the surface yet) rebuild of impworks. The big bonus being this site is now clean of a couple of years of junk messing around and I have a separate development site I can mess up to my hearts content.
Ragnarok 58
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Issue 58 of Ragnarok (the journal of the SFSFW) landed through my post box today including my article for Wessex Games’ Strange Tydes The Bare Belly Coast. Immediately spotted an editing error I’d made where I’d truncated a sentence… “The alliance with the Orcs eventually saw it added it to their empire as a protectorate […]
Accretion
Friday, March 18th, 2011When I took this picture of buildings all jostling for space with each other on a Liverpool street I was going to just post it as a throw away picture post. However this was one of the views, with its variety of buildings from different eras, that inspired my render Accretion City. So I thought […]