Yafaray Winter Contest A new Yafaray contest has been announced. The subject is ‘Amazing Architecture’ Rules Contestants must render with YafaRay a still image or a series of them, based on the aforementioned subject.The final render/s could consist in a sigle render pass or a post-process and composition of different YafaRay render passes. Tone-mapping is allowed.
Matt Mazur » Six Lessons Learned from Domain Pigeon’s First Six On January 29th I launched Domain Pigeon, a web site to help people find available domain names. The site lets visitors browse thousands of available .com domain names which they can register for their websites. It’s been more than six weeks since the initial launch and I wanted to do a recap of how things have been going as well as write about some of the lessons I’ve learned from the experience. Domain Pigeon has received more than 18,000 visitors and more than 62,000 page views since its launch. 72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration If we are starting to go crazy in typography style, then let’s continue with typographic and smart logo designs, shall we? Here you’ll find 72 beautiful logos created by talented designers. This showcase just proves the point how much can one/two words, icons tell using correctly white, negative, positive spacing, colors, accents creating interesting associations. Explore and get creative as I did!
Blender 2.5, Addons Sorry, old blender man reminiscing + rant post. you can ignore it if you want, dosn't worry me just needed to get my thoughts off my chest :) I remember a time in blender, that blender was considered to be just a hobby tool, not much use to anyone, and in those days, everyone treated each other properly no trolls, no 'thinkmegoods' and everyone helped everyone and was eternally grateful for what they have. These days, the community is all but a shadow of its former self, many old timers who help shape what blender is today stopped reading Blendernation and Blenderartists out of disgust of what it has become. Everyone thinks they are a blender god, only because hey used blender for a couple months and managed to render a fruit bowl and think they know how blender works and how it should be. Out of all this decay came the notion that the blender foundation is a huge company with huge resources and they and the coders MUST bow to their every whim and have to be done instantly.
Tea Round - Democra-tea at work Our democratic selection process resolves all brew-related arguments. Only 4 short steps to your golden cup of awesome. Making of "Les arpents des vignes" by Daniel Respaud I imagined this picture after a car trip in Toulouse. It's a trip I regularly do, and the motorway goes through countryside. This gave me some ideas about landscapes to create around this theme. The steps: Preparation of the scene and placement/creation of the terrains The atmosphere Materials and ecosystems Objects, plants and rocks Render settings Postwork By clicking here, you can download pictures used in "Les arpents de vignes".
The world's best logo designers? Update: 22 August 2008 I’ve learned a lot about designers since publishing this short post (about blogging, too — it’s always a little naive to add “best” to any post title). So I’ve launched a new website dedicated to logo greats. You can view the resource here: iconic logo designers. This blog has quite an emphasis on logo design, so I’ve put together a little background on some of the most notable graphic designers in history.
June 17, 2009 Aurora Nebraska Tornadic Supercell Page 2 Page 1 Page 2 The supercell that "couldn't"...then could..........still can! At least as far as putting on a great show. It seemed the atmosphere wanted this storm to start to die now, as it got a bit smaller on radar. This storm though said to hell with that, I'm going to spin and spin and spin. Tutorial Roundup: 53 Amazing Blender Tutorials - Cgtuts+ Okay all you freeloaders... here are the Blender tutorials I promised! I got you 47 amazing tuts from around the far reaches of the interwebs. So go get some coffee or a can of coke, cause you're gonna be here for a while. Model and texture a wooden barrel using multiple modifiers and projection painting with Jonathan Williamson .
Weightbot - Tapbots Weightbot Overview Weightbot is a simple weight tracking app that makes weight management fun! Just enter your weight daily and see your trends get plotted on a beautiful graph. Set weight goals, watch your progress, and view interesting analytical data about your weight changes. If you are tired of complex and tedious weight management applications, you’ll find Weightbot to be very refreshing and quite enjoyable. 2.66 From BlenderWiki The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.66. This release contains long awaited features like rigid body physics simulation, dynamic topology sculpting and matcap display. Other new features include Cycles hair rendering, support for high pixel density displays, much better handling of premultiplied and straight alpha transparency, a vertex bevel tool, a mesh cache modifier and a new SPH particle fluid dynamics solver.
45 Interesting Web 2.0 Services And Applications That Can Make Y Web 2.0 is a category of new Internet tools and technologies created around the idea that the people who consume media and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available. Rather, they should be active contributors, engaging and interacting with each other, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities. So we would need powerful Web services and applications to aggregate and remix micro-content in new and useful ways. Web applications can be defined as "software delivered as a service over or on the Web" in short SaaS. These applications provide value by allowing users to create, collaborate, collect, and get work done; all within a familiar Web browser window. But when could a Web service or application be considered part of Web 2.0 generalization?
Website Features That You Can Easily Offload The amount of site features that you have can take a dire toll on your web server, making your site sluggish and more vulnerable to becoming offline because system resources have been expended. To alleviate the work that your web server is doing, it’s a good idea to offload certain site features to share the burden. In this article, you’ll read about six site features you can easily offload, and the web services that you can use for them. 1. RSS feeds