Everyone's doing it...

[compilerbitch]

Posting pics, that is. So here's a selection (theres one of doseybat and another of panzerpenguin!)...




doseybat being attacked by a giant insect



panzerpenguin being penguinacious



... and I've been getting randomly arty, having played with povray a little this evening ...

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[yvesilena.livejournal.com]

These aren't loading! I tried pasting in the URLS directly and it still didn't work, so maybe they haven't uploaded.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

There were network problems at St Eds overnight -- the pics are now back up! :-)

[yvesilena.livejournal.com]

Why the LONG face?

Rah. Those are excellent.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

The originally had conventional proportions, but I accdentally stretched it. Suddenly it seemed to convay something that wasn't there before, a sadness or longing somehow. I can't pretend to fully understand, but I just decided to leave it be. It has a lot of impact seen quite large, the small image here doesn't really get that somehow. I might try to get it printed sometime -- the lab hos a large format printer, so I'll have to see if I can beg/borrow/buy/steal time on it.

Oh, and thanks *so much* for the compliment! I've not really done any graphic art or photography in decades, but I want to try to get back into it again.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Coo, at last I know what the famous Mr. Penguin looks like (despite having been to his previous house and stroked his cats, I've never met him!)
And yay, the povray pictures are good. I spent a little while playing with povray a year or so ago, but it went the way of most of my projects....

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Penguin is very photogenic, but convincing him of this is impossible!

Povray now has a nice modeller front-end that ships as part of KDE under Linux. I didn't have povray installed initially, but decided to give it a go when I saw the new front-end. It makes Povray more like 3d Studio or Lightwave from the user's point of view, which is a huge improvement on its arcane script language! I've used Lightwave for years, so I thought I'd give the public domain alternative a run for its money. Verdict: does interesting things, rendering is very slow, results are good, no obvious animation support, has some interesting object types (like 3D Julia sets!) that aren't around in the commercial alternatives. Lots of fun. I can feel the art addiction starting to happen again -- its been a long time! One of my main reasons for liking 3D is that my very first art was Super 8 stop motion animation, back when I was a little kiddly, so I can indulge myself again. :)

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

penguin has a very natural elegance about him. it is one of those things it is impossible to aquire or cultivate. he would seem so natural in a casual gathering of victorian polite society gentlemen, or with the three musketeers and co.

(penguin, please dont kill me if you are reading this!)

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

PS: I have high res versions of all of the above should anyone want them for printing/screen backdrop/whatever purposes...