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Blender 3D basic intro to curve modeling

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:05:17 +0000

These are some (very) basic tutorials involving curve modeling in Blender 3d. They assume you’re comfortable mousing around the blender environment and changing 3d views. In these you learn to make curves (and paths), control the curves with the bezier handles, and the bevel and taper options. Ultimately, I do the obligatory wine glass modeling with the spin operation, but then do it again with curves for real time modeling of the glass.

PART 1

PART 2

Part 3

The basic Blender 3D modeling interface

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:49:53 +0000

Blender is a free open-source 3d modeling program available from blender.org.

There’s no shortage of tutorials regarding modeling, texturing, animation and other subjects for blender, but basic info on the user interface is tough to come by. Surprising, considering that 90 percent of understanding blender comes from wrapping your head around the interface. Once you get past that, it’s a whole new world and a what was once a dense program suddenly makes a lot of sense. Some fine tutorials can be found by searching youtube; some more cool tutorials can be found at gryllus.net

The cool thing about the UI is I started to wonder about it being applied to other programs like a word processor. What if you could just slide open a new window in Word, and then make that window another view port in a long document for easy cut and pasting, then make that window into some type of sub-menu system, drawing area, wysiwyg output. or html preview, withouth having to hunt for them in menus. Really cool stuff.

Using my GPS device with Google Earth and Google Maps

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:15:06 +0000

In these four videos, I show how I use my Garmin Etrex handheld GPS with Google Earth and Google Maps, transferring data to and from.

Making a Cat 5/5e Ethernet cable

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36:27 +0000

I had to make a new cat 5 cable today, so why not do a test video with my Logitech Quickcam 9000.

The webcam is actually mounted on a mini-tripod by using a spring clip from Home Depot that was drilled and tapped for a 1/4 inch hole.

My "video rig" a Logitech Quickcam 9000

IP updating services and port forwarding

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:08:01 +0000

I talk about IP updating services to will keep tracking of your changing dynamic IP address on the internet, so you can alway point to your web server or DVR camera on the internet