trying to remember,
once upon a time, I would
create a single polygon the shape of the perimeter of the fence line.
project this to terrain/ground
wall plus this nonplanar face
set the proflie in wall plus to have a 30 degree bend at the top about a foot down (two points) -gives a “3d” fence with barbed wire geometry at top
texture with nearest (to have forced poles at the corners – do texture accordingly) -wasnt a CDB db
then those polys were all reset to view 2x
shade
(Source here.)
Welcome all to the second annual end-of-year roundup of various media I consumed this year. This year I kept a list, so this is guaranteed to be comprehensive. Instead of alphabetical order, entries are listed in the order read (within each category). As in last year, recommendations are in bold. Mini-reviews provided below entries, as applicable. Starred entries I only read part of, usually books of short stories. Note: also includes movies!
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A couple months ago I was invited by Packt Publishing to review some early drafts of their new Blender manual, Blender 3D Basics by Gordon Fisher. I can’t say I was a huge amount of help (to be honest, I forgot one of the chapters I was supposed to work on and totally missed the deadline) but still it was an honor to be recognized as a Blender authority. I can’t say I ever expected to be seen as such, but I guess years of practice and community involvement have got to pay off somehow. (Kidding, of course…Blender skills are their own reward.)
So anyway, the book is in print and it’s got my name on the contributor’s page and I’m pretty excited about that. That is all.
This is a fateful date. You are probably already aware that it is Pi Day (especially so at 1:59) but it is also, coincidentally, the day that the Zarks were born. For it was on Pi Day in 2002 that I happened to create, almost absent-mindedly, a creature called a Zark to serve as a bit enemy in the embarrassingly-titled comic Space Kid. I’ve related this story a million times before, so I’ll just give the synopsis:
And so, to celebrate the first ten years of Zarkdom, I present the following show of rare and/or unseen images from their storied lineage. And if that’s not enough, I also offer you a digital copy of the complete Zirconius comics, a guide to the Easter Eggs of Into the Titan, and some old backstory: Maz’s journal. (Links are below the fold.) Share and enjoy.
So, they’ve appropriated a character who preaches not just an environmental message, but also an anti-consumerism message, and they’re using him in advertisements. Advertisements! Advertisements for cars! I don’t care if he is fictional… this is slander.
And, on a side note, how do you make a movie out of Dr. Seuss and get a PG rating? Actually, forget asking how, what about why? Also who, when and where. Someone has to account for this whole travesty.
Today I shut down the old WordPress MU version of this site by simply logging in through FTP and deleting the directory. Very efficient, but unbeknownst to me, all the images from the old blog posts were still stored inside it. So that means all the images older than last July or so are gone. Sigh. There’s not really any way to get them back, either, and it would take many hours to put them back together (assuming I can even find the source files for most of these), so I’m just going to shrug this one off. Should anyone want to see any of this stuff, just let me know and I’ll attempt to piece it together again. I should have known better, really.
Size of dot reflects character’s proximity to camera. Orange line indicates the character’s duration within the series. Characters who never appeared on a cover: Stephenson and Ritchie.
Color swatches show basic palette of cover art. Apparently the best way to imitate a Sunrise cover would be to use a lot of gray, a little sky blue, and desaturated colors.
Where your comments go
July 7th, 2012So lately I’ve been asking myself: Why does no one comment on my blog anymore? Well, apparently it’s because I’m a moron who doesn’t realize that comments are moderated by default. I’ve approved the significant backlog of old comments (some of which are truly delightful, I must say) and will be checking them from now on so that they’ll actually, you know, appear. I apologize to all of you who spent the time writing comments only to have them vanish into the aether. I’ll do better now!
Edit: I’ve posted replies to many of your old comments. Thanks for your patience, everyone.
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