Getting through it

Its the second week of January in 2021, and I may be one of the few people who is feeling better this week. It comes on the heels of being very depressed and anxious for months leading up to the election and the very dark Covid winter we knew we were entering.

Here are some thoughts and practices that are keeping me sane. Full disclosure: I am fortunate to have been spared the worst of this horrible year. Some these are aspirational, meaning "I am working on it."

Animation nodes homework

I have been following the YouTube Blender video tutorials of Zach Hixson about Jacques Lucke's animation nodes Animation nodes is an amazing tool and Zach explains things well. I encourage people to check out all of this.

Free Minecraft Valentines Cards in PDF format

Valentines Day Cards Kids in elementary school put valentines day cards in brown paper bags at school this time of year. So my son and I made some Minecraft cards. Print them out if you want. Complete with groan inducing pun.

Setting up TestFlight Beta Testing in iTunes Connect

TestFlightApp—a company which we loved to use for beta testing our IOS software—was bought by Apple, which has tried to incorporate similar beta-testing features into their iTunes Connect portal, in a new feature called TestFLight Beta Testing.

I am lazy

I am always looking for ways to avoid unwrapping my blender mesh UVs for my cycles materials. Procedural textures and shaders are tempting, but often look lifeless because they are full of repeating and predictable elements. Textures should...

I recently tweated:

Bananas: I just found out my mom wrote her programs in hexadecimal on paper, and would hand it off to her secretary for data entry.

I thought I would fill in some of the back story.

I remember going to school with my mom...

Several of my works will be on display at The Gallery On The Green, 5 Canton Green Rd., Canton, CT from October 17th through November 16th 2014.

The show is called "Riff: A visual conversation between two artists", and it features work from my mother...

What I learned about my county's demographics from US population data has caused a small interruption in my work day. Intellectually I have always known the story this data told me, but seeing the data in a map was shocking. Shocking enough to merit a few minutes to share.

It all started when I wanted to grab some colors from Vincent Van Gogh for use in one of my renders.

I figured it should be possible to convert pixels into voxels, and using Blender's Python API, it was pretty easy. This technique might have general appeal, so I created a video tutorial for it.

This is an (incomplete) listing of prints that I have available at the moment. The 20" prints are available for $180. The Triptychs are $690, but require at least 6' of horizontal wallspace.

Middleman is a great Ruby based static site generator. If you have any familiarity with Sinatra or Rails, you will feel right at home with Middleman.

Out of the box, its just a static site generator. There are many static site generators like:

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