Blender: My Quick Synopsis
A friend asked me to tell him, “…how cool Blender is (please)“. So here was my response. It’s the biggest open source 3D software and Ton (the founder) is a good guy with an honorable vision. It can...
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Jahshaka 3.0
*UPDATE Feb 8th * It seems that there’s more life on the website. They have stated that the product has been delayed to make sure everything is working properly. Actually, they are calling it a...
View ArticleMyPaint – Free and Under 10MB
Don’t be thinking that this application is a toy because… well.. it is a toy, but a very powerful one. Download MyPaint (8.5MB) now, for Windows, Linux and Mac.
View ArticleZen Typing with OmmWriter
Had to type a fairly emotional yet technically accurate email today (not a regular occurrence, luckily), so I used an open source alternative to OmmWriter called FocusWriter. There’s also a closer...
View ArticleSpring Engine : Open Source RTS Game
Was inspired but some recorded matches of Spring RTS, an open source real-time strategy game, so I recorded a big match that I played versus an AI opponent. Wanna play? Well Spring is free, so go...
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Blender Rig from Sintel Open Movie
Starting to dig into Blender, starting with a free lite version of the character from Sintel. Links to the Vimeo video rig tour, rig and textures can be found here: http://www.sintel.org/news/sintel-lite
View ArticleVim – lighting fast text editor
It sounds like “lightning fast” is just another typical headline for viral Facebook post, which automatically makes me feel as if I’m not giving Vim enough credit. I typically use basic text when...
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Robotic Defenses
Currently looking at the latest robotic tech demo from Boston Dynamics (now owned by Google). Remembering the classic film, “Runaway”, with Tom Selleck. Plan to fend those buggers off with my own...
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Blender Days 11 & 12 – Materials, Cycles & L-Systems
Initially setup the materials for Blender’s default renderer and noticed that when I switched to the new Cycles renderer, I lost the materials. A quick Internet searching revealed a handy addon called...
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Blender – 15 Days Later – Open Source is Home
First question that most have is, “What is open source? You mean free?” Yes, it’s free and more. Open source means that not only are you given the product, but you are given the blueprints as well. If...
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Folder & File Structure Visualization
You may have realized that I’m primarily a Linux user, but this post is for anyone managing files on a Windows computer or server. I have used SequoiaView for managing file space on Windows servers for...
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Hackathon
Hey YEG, that was a pretty cool open data Hackathon. The potentials demonstrated by the participants in that room had me shivering with excitement. So many useful and brilliantly simple ideas. The...
View ArticleHP Printer in Ubuntu 14.04
I’ve installed HP printers on a laptop prior… though by “install”, I mean that I plugged a printer in and it just worked. Ubuntu uses the open source HPLIP drivers. This wasn’t the case for my home...
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Blender – 1 Year Later
Last week marks the one year anniversary of when I decided to finally buckle down and dive into Blender. Looking back, can see how much I have learned and I’m quite happy with how far I have come....
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