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Spray on EcoSystem a Surprise Hit

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I wasn’t expecting the Spray on EcoSystem python script to be such a big hit. I’ve had more e-mail’s about it than any of the other Vue script so far. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts. I’m going to take a look at everyone’s suggestions over the next few days and see what I can […]

Characters on the Couch (Part 11)

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 10). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Magician Archetype “It can happen. ” Magicians seek knowledge so that they can make dreams come true. They are mediators and visionaries seeking win-win outcomes where no one loses out. The […]

More Smarty Templates

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

I’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, 2006

A quick picture rendered in Vue 5 Infinite.

Spray on EcoSystems for Vue

Friday, September 15th, 2006

A 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

Characters on the Couch (Part 10)

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

This 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, 2006

Between 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, 2006

I 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, 2006

The 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, 2006

Came 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 […]

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