Archive for June, 2009

Learning how to create and manage 3d props.

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

I used a bunch of tools and so far ac3d is the best modeller that I have found.  It lets you easily form complex 3d shapes and work with meshes to modify the thing you are building.  The coolest feature is the ability to draw a line and then rotate that line around an axis [...]

Texturing objects with Daz Studio

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

How to make a texture that looks realistic.

Daz Studio 3.0 is out.

Friday, June 26th, 2009

DazStudio is here.
Been working with this version of the software.   Some very interesting changes.
Here is an example: skeldance2sm
Lighting is challenging.  To light up a room so that it looks like natural sunlight with pools of light and ambient light in the room you have to use several carefully arranged lights.
Animation is tricky.  I can’t seem [...]

Hugin Panorama Creator makes it easy.

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Just run the program and follow the steps… 1 2 3
Then you get a preview.  update once you are finished adjusting the preview.
Click on 2 again, it will say to do this.
Finally you get the result:

The Dyatlov Pass incident

Monday, June 8th, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
Amazing.  Group of skiers out in the middle of nowhere, forced to run from their camp in the middle of the night wearing almost nothing, in the freezing cold.  They freeze to death rather than return to the camp.  3 of the 9 are found crushed to death without any external marks.
Why aren’t stories like [...]

Time travel to the past is impossible

Friday, June 5th, 2009

There is no way to travel back in time.  The particles that existed in the past are the same particles that exist today.  Just their location and charge and orientation and momentum have changed by interacting with other particles.
So there is no then to go back to.  Then is now, just jumbled up more.

Targetted ads

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

In order to support a web site and make a profit, run ads that are targetted to the demographics and preferences of the individual viewer.
Instead of watching nearly as many ads as you do on TV, why not watch a lot less, but more targeted ads that might even be interesting to you?
TV has to [...]

Google Wave looks amazing.

Monday, June 1st, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ
It combines email, im, wiki, photo albums, blogging, automation, revision control, and a few other things, all in one easy to use, realtime colaborative environment. The integration is seamless.  And unlike email or im, when you add in another user they can see and even playback from the begining, the entire wave.
And unlike all the [...]