poncemonkey in space

this was an experiment with adding cg into a photo scene.

the room you can see is the cupola from the international space station. it was a 3d quicktime that i pulled apart. the creature floating by the window is a poncemonkey - star of a collection of student comics some friends and i made. his simplistic form is partly because of how badly drawn the initial conception was, and partly because the 3d model was originally created in 3d studio max to make a background for a nokia 3210 (monochrome, very small - so yes, overkill), although the rocket pack was added for this picture.

light from the stars, and the cupola both effect the 3d object. this was achieved by sandwiching the model between two textured surfaces, and shining light through them. the border that was pegged on later to make the picture 4:3 is a warped pleiades

my first ever flash anim

this should probably have come first, but i'm not recovering my old stuff in order. expect chronological fun after i've moved everything from my old blog, and verious other locations.

• untitled - car anim

i made this seven or eight years ago in flash 5. there's no preloader, but it streams fine over my connection. i added a stop frame at the end a few years later, but other from that, it's the very movie that had my flash cherry!

it's lights on for java

it's nice to sprinkle a bit of jaba abouit occasionally. i'll run out soon though, i don't really program in it anymore. you're going to need the java runtime environment to try these out

• player controlled
• computer controlled

these are two implementations of 'lights out'. i made them when i was slightly poorer than a student, just after leaving university, becuase i didn't want to fork out the money for a real one. the player version is a game you can play - press the blue button the randomise it. the computer version is an implementation of the algorithm i came up with to complete it, after playing the other version - press the blue button to step forwards.

NOTE - you will have to rename the extensions to 'zip'

glorious h2o

i like it when you have a glass of water on your desk that you're just sipping occasionally. it's like being on wogan!

first swf test

right, let's see how good blogger is at keyping my swfs...          ...damn. it doesn't look lke it wants them on itw own server. you'd think if youtube could handle entire movies for free, blogger could retain my swf files - especially since they're owned by the same people!

right, plan b - store them somewhere else.

• depth first
• best first
• dijkstra

these are three path finding solutions i demonstrated at university, and three swf hosting solutions i demonstrated a few moments ago. they're not sitting in a propper page, because the server hosting them adds banners to html pages, and you'll need javasacript to open the window, because i want it a specific size - but it was it was free and easy, and i trust 1asphost (where the swfs are kept) not to close down my account.

a little one - a picture, no more

i was just going to put programs on here, but i got back from work quite late today becuase i wanted to hang around and make a desktop buddy. it's basically a ball that bounces around on your taskbar. i'll post the final version here at some point, by which time it'll be a little character to interact with.

just so i can add something tonight, here's a picture. it's an anaglyph (3d thingy). you need red/cyan glasses, but red/blue or red/green should work. perhaps you could make some out of sweety rappers.

blog created

i'm gonna spend the next couple of weeks moving things across from my previous blog, and adding all the things i meant to blog but didn't because my previous blog was such a hastle. watch this space.

also note that this is a capital letter free zone (also sometimes a correct spelling free zone), so feel free to relax.