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 ...

Comments

[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!)