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“Kate, I heard that you twist balloons into animals.  Can you teach me?” “Sure thing!  Let’s start with the basic dog?  It’s the easiest to learn, and the knot used in there, the pinch twist, is useful for many other figures.” Kate continued, “Let’s inflate one of these long balloons, until there’s about 5 inches… Read more

Monte and I was sessioning over a deck of cards when Kate came in the living room.  She had the thinking expression on.  “What’s the best hangman word?”, she asked.  Without missing a beat, Monte replied, “Denim.”  It took both of us by surprise; denim? Monte smiles wryly.  “People like to guess Es and Ns… Read more

Earlier last week I wrote about a hack to simulate bars with matplotlib in python.  By coincidence, I later read up on the mplot3d.axes3d API, and found a real bar 🙂 The description is sparse: This enables us to create histograms of this type: It has occasional problems with clipping: a plane in the back… Read more

Just began a conversion to using TextMate for writing , python, and wordpress posts. This wordpress post is written with Markdown syntax. How is this working out? This is [toeholds], a blog of relative inconsequence. Hello world. When not writing a blog, I’m writing a paper. The paper is intended to keep me occupied while… Read more

More from the same commissioned series (“creature holding spheres”). Quickly colored in – the style is still up in the air. Fellow artist & developers seems to like a toony look, so this is probably not the last render. I myself am not too happy with how boring it looks once it’s colored… I’m strongly… Read more

A little something I worked on a few weeks back.  A combination of Blender, Vue, and Photoshop.  I really like the renders Vue generate – even though they take forever. Read more