Go back more than 300 million years – further back than the time taken for the Sun to complete a lap of the entire Milky Way, long before the first dinosaur was ever even a glint in a non-dinosaurian ornithodiran’s eye. This period, called the Carboniferous, was almost alien in its life when compared to […]
read moreFor the most part, everything to do with orbits is a consequence of one simple rule: Newton’s law of universal gravitation. It simply states that all masses are attracted by a force that increases with mass and decreases faster with distance. General relativity describes certain physical observations much more accurately, but the differences only become […]
read moreJust a few design ideas for overlapping armour plates. In each case the plates at the top of the image sit over those beneath. They all tile because why not.
read moreIf you’ve even only touched upon anything involving computers and colour, you’re sure to have encountered some way of modelling it. There’s Red Green Blue, Hue Saturation Lightness, L*ightness a*green-redness b*blue-yellowness (okay, that doesn’t work so well) and even Y luma In-phase Quadrature, amongst quite a few others. All specify a colour with three values, […]
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In the card game Munchkin, it is necessary to track your level from 1 to 10. Now you could remember it, or alternatively you can use some sort of external aid. And what better than themed counters? So with what few Blender skills I still had, I made a set of six small counters that […]
read moreNo introduction is required – we’ve all heard “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But we shouldn’t parrot information without confirmation; it’s time for an empirical validation! First I performed a search for the phrase “a picture is owrth [sic] a thousand words” and copied the main text of the first three results into […]
read moreThis took shape after a series of tangents during some discussion. Not much to it, but exploring the consequences could be interesting. One nation, not entirely confident about its relationship with another, wishes to install some armaments in close proximity to the other. To avoid any suspicion, materials are discretely transported by diplomats to the […]
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This is hopefully the last of me sharing my experiences with beginning digital drawing as I don’t think there’s much significant that could happen from here. Check out my initial impressions followed by using pixel-based brushes if you’re interested. It’s hard to make an introduction here that the title hasn’t already covered. Indeed, I now […]
read moreAt the beginning of this year, I drew up a set of 80 blocky glyphs. And since I’m making a transition into digital media as opposed to loose graphite on paper, it seemed appropriate to construct a simple font that included them. Then I could mash my keyboard and get some nice-looking text. There are […]
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Previously I mentioned how much more convenient it is to do drawings digitally as opposed to on a sheet of paper that never gets used again. The picture I managed to convert did indeed look very nice, but was lacking that extra detail. I’ve suspected for a while that pixel-based brushes are necessary for that […]
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