Month: September 2011

My Mandelbox arrived today.  It turned out extremely well.  It is better than I imagined.  The detail is really good… the teeth on the edges are very fine.  I’m happy.…

I’ve been playing with the idea of attaching the GoPro to my body in different locations then doing the same task over and over then somehow stitch it back together…

I reiterate that timelapse is where it’s at… I’m thinking about going to Northborne and doing some there… or in a flowerbed at Floriade… Hmmm. [insert sample afternoon timelapse]

I’ve been looking at the renders and the end of the fly-thru looks too sudden… I’ve decided to add 800 frames after the second last frames… actually 400 for the…

So far, this is the best use for the GoPro yet… I made it take photos every 5 seconds… it produced great imagery/footage. [insert morning time-lapse]

I’ve been setting up and monitoring renders for the last 9 days in 3000 frame batches… I’ve done 33,000 frames now.  It has taken 9 days, 21 hours.  Multiple render…

I did it! I couldn’t help myself.  I’ve ordered my Hollow Mandelbox online in the White Strong and Flexible material.  It was $98.  Fingers crossed that it is worth it…

So, after installing the Collada plug-in, I was able to export from Maya into the DAE format, which when zipped came down from 87MB to 19MB I imported the model…

So… I got a tank of helium and 30 balloons from toys-r-us.  Once I figured out how it worked… it worked a treat. It only took 3 balloons to make…

I was showing David the ability for Mandelbulber to only show partial cross-sections of a fractal.  He gave me the thought of mixing the displacement idea with slices, captured front-on.…