Uncategorized
-
Skeleton – work in progress
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…
-
Snowed In
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.
-
My Ashtanga Yoga Experience
Starting this year I decided to let go of capoeira while I “sit down and write” (ha, ha). Slowly it turned out to be a disaster: I was not eating properly, always tired, and goes on these “write 2 hours, sleep 2 hours” routine. One day I tried kicking a quexada, when my now-tight hamstrings…
-
Interactive Bibliographies
Partly for my dissertation, partly for the sake of our little research community, and partly as a proof of concept, I’ve built an “interactive bibliography” based on SIMILE Timeline. You can play with it here. Screenshot for interactive bibliography The rest of the post goes into some of the features and its construction. FeaturesA: there…
-
Graphical Diversions: Truck, Eurasia map
The past few days were full of unhealthy eating, awful sleep pattern, no exercise, and futile attempts at writing this landmark paper. I’ve been constantly distracted, but a few good things did came out from this diversion; enjoy. (On the bright side, I think I will be done with the first draft of this paper…
-
Minotaur (Work-in-Progress)
A partially completed vector drawing of a minotaur (~0.5h sketch in photoshop, 1.5h illustrator). One of a set of murals, commissioned for a Dungeon-and-Dragons module called “Tomb of Horror” (don’t look at me funny, I just draw!) The set of 20 murals are divided between two artists. To keep it consistent, we will try to…
-
Scientific Data Visualization: Learning Enthought Traits (1)
A few months ago I proposed a new analysis for my thesis data. The trouble was that I have only a faint scent of the direction, and have no algorithm, nor the means to find out what that algorithm ought to be. I knew it must involve some automation – afterall, there is ~30Gb of…
-
Scientific Data Visualization: Learning Enthought Traits (2)
In the last section, we looked at some basic things that the Enthought Traits package can do for you. In this section we’ll take a look at customizing the graphic interface, and build upon this familiarity to do some interactive graphing in the next. Last time we made a class of objects called Subjects, which…
-
“Compassionate Voices” by Hub Meeker
This is writing by Hub Meeker, a retired journalist and crisis line counsellor. Hub volunteered for over 20 years at the NEED crisis and information line, now defunct due to budget cuts within the Vancouver Island Health Authority. By posting this, I hope this provides the wide world a perspective of what it is like…
-
A Happy Illustrated Guide to a PhD
Diego posted a link to Matt Might’s article “The Illustrated Guide to a PhD“, which was funny, sad, and many would think is accurate. Since I feel optimistic today, I would like to extend on that with an encouraging note. While we’re all familiar with “perfect” objects, like a circle, triangle, or square: …they’re not…