| Cutaway animation |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|11:45 am] |
Video cutaway with 2 ambient bounces - produced a 1.2 GB ambient file
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| Leaky executive branch |
[Aug. 13th, 2008|10:41 am] |
So it seems the White House forged a document to justify Iraq.
Ron Suskind's book The Way of the World sounds damning. I will give Cheney the benefit of the doubt that he "thought" we was going to make the mideast a better place, and get more rich on the way. But the nerve to carry out such personal ambitions in the name of America and freedom.
In the fall of 2003, the White House decided that a letter should be fabricated, dated July 2001, from the Iraqi to Saddam Hussein establishing a link to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. "And the letter should as well say that Saddam Hussein has been actively buying yellowcake uranium from Niger with the help of al-Qaida," Suskind says. |
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| Hang up the Phone |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|11:24 am] |
It is now legal for the government to tap our phones without a warrant! FISA Yikes.
They want us to just "trust" them that they will be responsible with this. I'm sorry, Mr. Bush, you lost my trust in 2001-2 by resisting a 911 investigation, 2003 Iraq WMD, 2004 Abu Graieb, again in 2005 with Katrina, in 2003 with the Valerie Plame leak - that by the way came from your VP's office... Trust? sorry fresh out!
According to one senator, at least 70 senators did not know what the bill entails
http://feingold.senate.gov/
Mr Barack Obama - Shame on you! for voting in favor |
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| Radiance rendering |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|09:51 am] |
Playing with radiance stereographic fisheye view. Walls vary with colorfunc and transparency.
Click for larger image.
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| Wishbone wedding ring holder |
[Jun. 17th, 2008|10:38 am] |
A co-worker here wanted a design for their 5th wedding anniversary.
She wanted a sketch of a wedding ring holder shaped like a wishbone. The jeweler wanted a drawing to guide him. After a little pen and paper, I figured why not use Hash A:M since it's an intuitive organic modeller. So here it is...
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| Another render/composite |
[May. 29th, 2008|12:49 pm] |
Rendered with 200 light sources converted from one of my HDRI probes with mksource from Radiance. One ambient bounce.
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| Time of day sequence - June 21 |
[May. 19th, 2008|03:14 pm] |
Lighting with 1 ambient bounce - Falsecolor view ofthe new roof design June 21
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| Austrailian Farmhouse |
[May. 15th, 2008|10:37 am] |
I had never heard of this style, but it was suggested by our architect. After years of frustration, it looks promising. She posted these views, and I have taken that concept, - and applied it to my Sketchup/ Radiance model.
Overcast March 21 still seems to have enough light.
Recommended lighting levels are:
- 150–200 lux for general household activity – for example, vacuuming or washing
- 300–500 lux for focussed activity – for example, reading or studying, working on a car
- 750 lux or more for concentrated activity – for example, fine detail sewing.
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| Zoomify feature in Photoshop |
[Mar. 24th, 2008|10:37 am] |
My new favorite exporter in Photoshop CS3. take any high res image and turn it onto a zoomable flash.
Also a sample of the new Radiance stereographic fisheye projection.
This one uses 270 degrees
rvu -vts -vp -22.1261 35.2336 4.94501 -vd 1 0 0 -vu 0 0 1 -vh 270 -vv 270 -vo 0 -va 0 -vs 0 -vl 0. |
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| Maze of doors 2 |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|01:17 pm] |
Oblique view of maze.
Click on the pic to open a larger jpeg.
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| Team 847 wins Robotics Animation |
[Mar. 3rd, 2008|05:19 pm] |
We just had the Oregon regional robotics competition (which includes teams from Washington, Cali, Idaho, Montana and BC, Canada)
Our team won the animation award! Woo Hoo!
I was the mentor for one student - her first time using 3DSMax.
Check this link for the others
Autodesk gives a copy of the latest 3DSMax software to teams to create a 30 second animation. The theme this year was an invention that can benefit our community. |
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| Maze of doors |
[Mar. 3rd, 2008|09:22 am] |
Playing around with a model of a building - duplicating and flipping the model - in Sketchup and then rendering in - of course - Radiance.
Click on the pic to open a 3600 x 2705 px image 1.1M jpeg, 27MB when opened!
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[Feb. 15th, 2008|12:03 pm] |
Another Mockup of the robot
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| PHRED Robotics Animation |
[Feb. 15th, 2008|11:54 am] |
our Video
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[Feb. 13th, 2008|04:59 pm] |
Philomath High School Robotics.
Rendering a mockup
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| The scale of things.. |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|04:33 pm] |
I just read a book - "The View from the Center of the Universe"
Many interesting ideas and facts - as we know them.
Such as
People (us, humans and animals) are about the middle of all possible sizes.
We are roughly 1.7 x 102 cm tall
The smallest size - a Planck length is 1.6 x 10-33cm
The largest size we can see - the cosmic horizon - is 13.7 billion lightyears wide - or 1032 cm
It blows me away that the smallest size compared to us is (roughly) the same as people compared to the universe.
Separated by 30 orders of magnitude each way.
We are closer in size to a mountain than we are to a cell. |
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| The black hole and the speed of time |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|02:16 pm] |
If I had a choice of how I would die... purely hypothetical - you'll see.
Since we all have to go sometime, my choice would be to fall into a black hole.
Yup.
Suppose I'm in a VERY stong spacesuit. I see the black hole, or rather, I see an emptiness that is distorting the stars and galaxies behind it with gravitational lensing. Spacetime is bent by gravity. Light travels in (as far as the photon knows) a straight line, the light isn't bending, space itself is bending.
Because I don't want to become a noodle just yet, I position myself to be like a skydiver - belly and face first. I feel my nose getting pulled more towards the hole than the back of my head. Tidal effects are not fun, but it may just clear out my sinuses.
This black void is rushing toward me as I excelerate towards the speed of light... but wait, as I go faster, time slows down. Not my time, but the time of the reality show watchers who are seeing this. To them I never quite enter the black hole, I'm stuck on the event horizon with everything else that has fallen into the black hole. I hope they aren't TiVoing this. Their hard drive will fill up.
I'm catching up to the speed of light, which, by my opinion is the speed of time. So do I really ever enter the black hole? I think I do.
I'm travelling at 99.999% of c
As far as I know, my clock is still ticking off the familiar pace of seconds. But if I were able to turn around, I see the light from the stars and reality tv cameras - travelling at the speed of light also. Would time stand still?
The speed of light is the same for all observers, so the tv camera lights should be coming at me at the speed of - well - light. But distances are shortened so they still look pretty close.
I turn back around, my entire view is filled with the event horizon. The threshold of no escape. Photons can't travel faster than the gravitation force that makes them fall back into the hole. Beyond the event horizon, time has lost its meaning. There is no room for anything. There is no space.
So there I sit, squashed to a size much smaller than an atom, maybe smaller than a Plank length. That's 10-20 times the diameter of a proton. That's small |
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| Another Composite |
[Nov. 26th, 2007|12:33 am] |
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| Cool Pool Caustics |
[Nov. 21st, 2007|10:17 am] |
Blatantly stealing Greg Ward's pool scene using rtcontrib, I added some spheres and picked a view.
Then a little Photoshop Levels, Curves, and saturation changes..
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| Merged Composite |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|12:52 pm] |
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