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From the series ‘recently made mistakes’ comes tip #002:
Don’t stash an open pack of stilton flavoured crisps away in a drawer. What happens is you’re going to inevitably forget about them and they will start spreading their nasty smell, their nasty smell of regret.
I’ve recently come across an open-source rendering engine written in Java, which uses Global Illumination as its major selling point and which – to my surprise – looks really promising.
It goes by the name of Sunflow and is made available as a plugin for the main 3d packages (yes, including blender..), but slightly more important, this chap has converted it into a library (P5Sunflow) which can be used with Processing to create all sorts of pretty stuff.
It’s not really well documented at the moment and it isn’t compatible with the latest release of Processing (plus the fact that any 3d scene for some reason looks terrible on my machine) but I will keep an eye on the development of this little gem.
For those of you who look at Windows 7′s more or less revolutionary features with an envy eye there is hope, and it comes with a name: HyperDock. It brings window previews and the snap feature among others to your beloved mac desktop and even more (e.g. shortcuts for applications in the dock). Grab it for free while it’s still in beta.
For those who overlooked my tweets about the possibly best hand-crafted music video ever, here it goes again:
Anti BP posters make a statement; screen printed with oil collected from soiled beaches.
Tomorrow night (Nov 3rd) there will be a lecture on filmmaker Martin Scorsese at uni, followed by a screening of Taxi Driver the week after, organised by the Peninsula Arts.
As I’ve understood it you have to get your ticket in advance which I did this afternoon. It’s also free for students of the University of Plymouth so come along :> Read the details.
This song has such an amazingly dreamy bass riff. Gotta love the Scottish music scene! Penguins Kill Polar Bears – In Everything (Spotify link).
The whole Dawn EP is well worth checking out and I’m not just saying this because the word penguin appears in the title :>
I’ve come across a beautiful sound visualisation on vimeo recently, which has been produced with a software package by the name of VVVV, which also looks surprisingly similar to Processing.
Style-wise it reminds me of the early motion work of Oskar Fischinger with a twist of scientific data visualisation. Make sure you check it out in full screen and with earphones plugged in: