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Corvette DIY - How to Turn a 1978 Corvette into a Batmobile!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:15:05 -0700

Here’s a cool DIY showing you how to turn a 1978 Corvette into a Batmobile. I think you could probably also do this with older Stingray Corvettes too.

Q: What is the original car that this was made from?
A: A brought-back-from-the-dead 1978 Corvette (most likely the limited edition pace car model).

Q: Did you make this from a kit? Where can I get it?
A: No, this is not a kit car. This was handmade using high density foam, fiberglass and a variety of classified materials. A 1989 Kenner toy car was used as the base model for which the modifications were made.

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Corvette DIY - How to Turn a 1978 Corvette into a Batmobile!

DIY Movie Hack - How to Make a Portable Movie Rail System!

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:18:50 -0700

Do you ever wonder how to make a Portable Movie Rail System for making your own homemade professional movies?

Well, now you can hack one of these cool portable movie rail systems yourself by following some of these pics which are pretty easy to understand.

We often see chase
scene movements in film. This picture needs to be rather stable.

Professional rail system is heavy, and expensive to use. We find it hard to carry around
and use.
What we need is a low cost, lightweight and portable rail system.

On one weekend, my colleague Murdoch has done some research online. He
found that low-cost DIY rail system is very doable. And use only common materials at we see every day.

via bordesign

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DIY Movie Hack - How to Make a Portable Movie Rail System!

The Software Design Center

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:14:07 -0700

Green Microgym collects Energy from Workouts!

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:02:30 -0700

Green Microgym collects Energy from Workouts!

Here’s a cool new gym in Portland, Oregon that collects energy from the work generated by people working out. I think this is a great concept and should be applied to every gym. In fact, they should make every gym machine so it can re-charge itself and other gadgets such as your cellphone.

The Green Microgym recently opened in Portland, Oregon - in addition to using solar panels and green building materials, they’re working with several companies that harvest power from gym equipment, including ReRev and Human Dynamo.

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Green Microgym collects Energy from Workouts!

Craig Larman

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:08:29 -0700

Wiki site of materials other instructors have provided for course

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:51:50 -0700

DIY - How to Make Asian Lamp from Recycled Materials!

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:07:59 -0700

Here’s a cool DIY showing you how to make a Japanese lamp from recycled materials.

A cheap but attractive paper “shoji” style lamp that uses mostly recycled parts and is easy to put together.

via instructables

Blender Open Material Repository - download blender materials/shaders for free!

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:44:05 -0700

Free online materials could save schools billions - USATODAY.com

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:42:33 -0700

Blender Open Material Repository - download blender materials/shaders for free!

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:45:38 -0700

Happy Birthday Blender Materials!

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:15:20 -0700

I was in need of a snow material for a current project when I remembered the Blender Materials site. I hadn't been there in quite a while and I found exactly what I needed for this project. It...

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Skin with multilayered sss experiments

Sat, 17 May 2008 08:13:47 -0700

Have you ever manage to simulate human skin, only with Blender materials? An artist from the Blenderartists forums, called Pixelvore, has made some incredible experiments with SSS and Nodes to...

[read the full article on blendernation.com]

Free online materials could save schools billions - USATODAY.com

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:12:44 -0700

Blender Material Repository Anniversary, Contest

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:51:10 -0700

The Blender Material Repository has its one-year anniversary coming up and they plan to celebrate it with a contest! Christian Engel, owner of the Blender Material Repository, writes: …on May...

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User:vijayshubh

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:45:00 -0700

Supply Chain Management, an IT driven function of business, is extremely popular and important today. Global supply chains are taking shape. Many software companies are full time engaged in developing complicated softwares on SCM related functions. My site http://www.supplychainmanagement.in intends to act as a knowledge site for anybody interested in SCM or its software development. It’s a FREE site that provides info on procurement, logistics, warehousing, inventory , transportation and many other topics of SCM and Materials Management

KAMA Energy Efficient Building Systems

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:11:11 -0800

SIPs type building system with minimal thermal bridging

Larry Ferlazzo, Teacher

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:32:56 -0800

Useful site for EFL and ESL

Free online materials could save schools billions

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:54:37 -0800

Free online materials could save schools billions

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:41:05 -0800

Open Clip Art Library Drawing Together

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:58:23 -0800

Free, user-contributed clip art. Higher quality than most!

[from amaah] Building Africa: the work of Alero Olympio

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:43:13 -0800

Featuring a few essays on Alero's work

Away3D Normal mapped bust

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:41:33 -0700

This demo nicely illustrates the huge visual enhancement that normalmapping brings to Away3D. You can click on the bust to swap between the new Dot3BimapMaterial and the old WhiteShadingBitmapMaterial to compare. New materials that take advantage of normal maps will be included in the next release of Away3D.

The normal map in this example was created from a high-poly mesh using a technique decribed here. The resulting model has significantly fewer triangles, but retains a high degree of detail in the displayed object. This is hugely beneficial to scenes where high render speeds require low poly-models.

Rob

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Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:30:35 -0700

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Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:29:16 -0700

Away3D DOT3 Normal Mapping

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:04:41 -0700

First ever implementation of dot3 normal mapping in Flash

There is a lot of possibility with importing normal maps into away3d. However, normal maps themselves can be complex to get right, so this demo combines the advantages of a normal map render pipe with the simplicity of a bumpmapped texture, allowing the model to have extra detail without all that fiddly high-poly/low-poly nonsense. Much easier to get right, plus you have the advantage of using a normal map if you would prefer. People with faster machines can set the default quality to high for a fantastic smoothed shading experience... - looks great but it's also heavy on the old processor.

I cannot tell you how soon i want to try this with a proper normal map...

Rob

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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:49:44 -0700

Away3D fast animated bitmap material

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:37:24 -0700

While working on the next demo for the new improved PhongMaterial, i wanted to add some animated texture on a model... but the MovieMaterial was just eating my cpu resources! So I've reused a concept I had in my bitmapdata engine.

I think that the animators among us will love this one: the new Away3d AnimatedBitmap class...
it's using no expensive draw(), no expensive copyPixels(), and it renders at the speed of regular texture like the BitmapMaterial!

It supports also loops, and will support much more play options since it seams to be fast, but right now i've more than enough to play with, so I will first finish that PhongShading demo!

Away3D bump continued

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:57:08 -0700

After 3 weeks vacation with nothing but a pencil and a notebook, i had wrote down some idea's for this class i wanted to test. Since you guys seem to like my blog, (my stats are growing very fast lately), i thought it was time to post some new demos. These are dev workfiles, this means: no fancy models, no nice textures and there are still many things to be done in the code, from improving perf to new features. These demos are just outputs while writing.

What's new in these ones?
The class has been updated to the composite idea - if you are familiar with Away3D
or PV this means that in your code you would usually make a material like this:

var material = new BitmapMaterial(mybitmapdata);

Now you can pass some graphical fx to it.
for the first demo you would do something like this:

var bump = new Bump(mybump);
var material = new BitmapMaterial(mybitmapdata, {}, [bump]);

The third param is an array, meaning when this code is released there will be more than just a bump to push in that array...
So what happens? When the material generates the faces the bitmapData is updated, and the next fx in the array will then use the resulting bitmapData from the previous. This is very nice because a different order in the array can create some completely different results. And believe me, you will soon want to save every swf outputted like i do, because they are nice to look at! The class has 3 other features -

1) it can use its own lightmap, like previous demos.

2) it can use an environment lightmap (this one is in development since some serious changes must be made into the core of the engine).

3) it can use an option that enables you to mask a part of the fx, allowing you to create some interesting materials, like rust on chrome etc..

This one demonstrates the bump applied with the texture mode set to overlay (forgot to mention, you also can set blendmodes on a texture)...
var bump = new Bump(mybump, mylightmap, "overlay");

This one illustrate the mask being set, creating some very interesting fx.
var bump = new Bump(mybump, mylightmap, "overlay", mymask);

I have more ideas to test/write from my notebook.

Fabrice

Away3d bump mask

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:57:08 -0700

While busy cleaning the code from yesterday, i've added one more thing: a mask for the whole texture.
It sounds overkill at first sight since you can use a png with alpha, but do you remember how heavy those little friends can be?
Anyway, for those interested, it will now be possible to create a mask from a very sharp movieclip or an external image.

Because you can choose how to apply the mask (see my last post for more on applying masks) an extra parameter is required: true or false.

This will mask the entire result - used in the above demo
new Bump(mybumpsource, mylightmap, mymode, mymask, true);

This will mask only the bitmap result - used in the previous demos
new Bump(mybumpsource, mylightmap, mymode, mymask, false);

Here's another quick demo, just to demonstrate the flexibility of this class:
4 planes, 4 exact same bitmapdata's, 4 different results with this class, and i'm not counting the environment normal mapping coming up. Notice the way 2 planes are rendered where a mask is being defined. The boolean parameter is set to true on one of them.

Fabrice

Away3D Environement Normal Mapping

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:57:08 -0700

It's been a while since my last post on materials. I thought it might be good to let see we are VERY busy right now with Away3D.
One of the latest feature, like this demo shows, is the normal mapping. Now natively implemented in the engine.

Any mesh using this new Material will reflect the environement or a given reflection map.
This is the first of this kind of materials and i have already a few more in the making.
How would you find being able to add phong shading coming from a given light source to your model?

Check this blog to see soon more of that shiny stuff!
Away3D rocks people!

k, Back to code now... too much fun!

Fabrice
PS: Rob is actually busy merging our codes for the next release.
PS2: Right click on model, open the Flashplayer menu, and select Away stats if you want some fps details...

Update
Made some tests last nite.
Code seams stabile and perform pretty well no matter model geometry being loaded...
Tried a 4206 faces overkill head model. FPS dropped down to 2fps and on init of the mesh the head.obj needed arround 2 seconds to intialize due to enormous amount of precalculations. The hummingbird model however with a respectable 974 faces count was running at a steady 25 fps very smootly.
I will try to improve the code on this...

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