I’m thinking about developing some applications for iPhone. I’ve never code anything for Mac, so starting this trip to IPhone, the first stop is ObjC/Cocoa. Here I have collected some information I found useful for C++ programmer to start coding ObjC .
You never know from where the inspiration will arrive. Doing some banking managements I took a look at one interesting Euribor Web Page and I came across a nice charts with lots of options to be able to explore values along a wide time range. Doing some research I found that the flash chart used belongs to amCharts. This web offers the use of a wide range of flash charts for free, including the stocks chart, the one that I was interested in.
Exiten muchos libros, charlas y conferenciantes dedicados a tratar sobre el tema de cómo gestionar equipos, cómo mantenerlos motivados, etc… Después de leer unas cuantas, las siguientes tienen algo de dejavù. En mi opinión, esta conferencia de Ed Catmull se destaca de las demás en 3 aspectos.
Antes de seguir recomiendo la lectura Conferencia, pero si no tienes mucho tiempo aquí va mi resumen.
The third level in backup security and one of the most important is to be able to store backups in a place different than the production place, well known as Keep backups off-site. Currently taking advantage of free services like gmail, it´s much easier to fulfill this third level of backup security and to have all your backups available through an internet connection. Here I show a homemade script that does the following steps.
This is just a little tip for those who use python and work with COM automation components. If you are a windows user, and you want to write python scripts to interact with Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual Studio the best way to do so is using the this application’s COM componts. But most of the times finding documentation this COM components registered in your Windows is tricky and difficult. Using a simple tool that is automatically installed with the pythonwin module, you can get wrap python classes for all interfaces and constants exported by a registered COM component. This usually helps a lot to find non documented methods, and even to make your python script more legible and clean.
A great friend and coworker drew my south park caricature. It was a hand drawing so I scanned and get a dirty grey-scale image, not to nice. So to get something cleaner I realized that I will need to vectorize the image. To do so I was looking for some freeware and I found Inkscape. This open-source software is surprisingly great and the vectorizing tool is awesome for someone like me that was facing this problem for the first time. So in the following lines, I will briefly document how to vectorize a bitmap using Inkscape and the help of The Gimp.
The main idea behind modelling using subdivision surfaces is to create simple geometry that after applying a smoothing algorithm like Catmull-Clark or Loop it finally gets its smoothed and final shape. This way you model the low resolution mesh and you get the higher resolution meshes applying different levels of this smoothing modifiers.
The main problem is that this smoothing algorithms will smooth at all cost and you sometime want to keep several edges chamfered but hard. One way to do this is creating bound edges around the edges you want to be hard.
One interesting technique to model real things, is to use pictures of this real things as a reference and place them in our modelling software so we can do the blocking of the model based on that visual information. Here I will describe step by step how to do it using 3dsmax. Thanks to Ramón for all the help.
Tuve la suerte de poder asistir a la edición de este año de MundosDigitales, festival de la industria del 3D que se celebra anualmente en La Coruña y que reune a personas de la mayoría de los estudios de animación nacionales y parte de Europa. Es un encuentro muy agradable donde asistir a conferencias sobre este mundillo y hacer amigos del sector.
Para no olvidarme de las conferencias que considero que más me han gustado, voy a llevar a cabo unos cuantos post en que describiré varias ponencias de Mundos Digitales 08 de forma desenfadada y con bastantes aportaciones personales (quién avisa no es traidor),
[Post in spanish because I feel more comfortable using my native language and I don´t have too much time to translate this in english. Content just for spaniards sorry.]
EL CAMBIANTE MUNDO DEL PIPELINE EN EL CINE
Sebastian “Beowulf carnosico” Sylwan
Incredible, people from Playskool knows what I need, they have already released the new MrPotato Indiana Jones, with integrated sound in the hat. So I can get rid of the useless Indiana Jones soundtrack emitter and replace it with my voice synthetizer :D. Now I only need some spare time.
I agree it´s not very friendly, it´s a kind of ugly, but it´s a MrPotato c´mon and if you press on the hat you will get some music, isn´t it cute?. During this summer holidays I need to be working on that defenitely. MrPotato v.3 is about to come. Muhahahaha
