Eu geralmente evito plágios integrais de grandes blogs brasileiros, para evitar aquela sensação de “já li isso três blogs atrás” mas não tinha como não postar isso que vi no Jacaré Banguela: como reproduzir o efeito de vídeos 3D utilizando apenas óculos escuros, o chamado Efeito Pulfrich. Basta colocar um par de óculos escuros, e entortar na cara (parecendo bêbado) pra que uma lente cubra um olho e a outra não, o vídeo deve ser assistido com o olho esquerdo cuberto pela lente do óculos e o direito decoberto.

Incrível não?

In this collection, there are 14 beautiful bathroom interior examples. You can download all in one archive.

3 examples:

Today, we updated the cylinder code to create a 3D spaceship made out of 2 objects, a cone and a cylinder.

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Beautiful designs by Lucy Hargrave.

Jp Frenay zeigt in diesem Animations-Short ein Zukunftsszenario, in welchem eine Major-Corporation ein System entwickelt um organische Eindrücke der Vergangenheit virtuell darzustellen. Watch this.

2012 – shit.

Narratives, narratives everywhere, but not a stop to think.

Honestly, 2012 is a pretty film. It’s got lots of flashy effects that, aside from the masses of water effects (especially the stuff of water crashing over the tops of the Himalayas, god was that crap) look relatively realistic if nothing else. Not that they were put to any purposeful use, aside from looking like bringing John Cusack’s character closer to being dropped down the next 500 ft hole. Visually impressive, but otherwise really nothing to write home about. Avoid if you’re a fan of real dramatic cinema.

Elsewhere, Shrewsbury was looking pretty murky. Had a look at the Severn from a bridge, and that river is not far from bursting its banks and turning Shrewsbury into a swimming pool. It’s getting dangerous up here.

Still not finished that goddamn essay. Should really get on that.

Noel Perry

En ce début de semaine, je vous propose la Demo Reel de Noël Perry, un animateur 3D américain qui ne manquera pas de vous séduire !

A l’approche de Noël, il est bon de rappeler le rôle des elfes et du Père Noël.

Ce designer est là pour nous l’évoquer dans cette animation au graphisme remarquable.

Ensuite, on enchaine sur différentes petites animations tout aussi remarquables.

Personnellement, j’aurai adoré voir celle du Père Noël et des elfes durer plus longtemps!

Qu’en pensez-vos?

Bonne découverte et excellent début de semaine à toutes et tous !

While sandy 3.1.2 release is pending official announcement, I decided to drop a collection of my various statements on subject combined in one post.

as3 sandy is shutting down soon

Actually, when haXe port was named as “official branch for Sandy”, the idea was that you could generate AS3 code from haXe version at any point of time, so AS3 branch would not be necessary at all. To this day, however, haXe can not do this properly, so AS3 version was updated by hand, and generally was never in sync with haXe. In 3.1.2, they are finally synchronized, but once haXe branch will go forward, you will have to rely on haXe as3gen (hopefully coming) fix. Why? You see, sandy AS3 3.1.1 was released on 28 March 2009, which is 8 months ago. Given all this time nothing major happened, just a dozen of bugs fixes and few minor features. Then, Thomas said he has no more time for sandy (although did not wrote any official announcement). This leaves me as only active AS3 contributor; my style of contributions to sandy, however, was always random and limited code patches, so I have no intent of “taking over” whole sandy project or anything.

What does this mean to you? In 3.1.2 most of sandy bugs were fixed, so you might want to use it to finish your ongoing sandy projects, if any, but you probably do not want to start new projects using AS3 branch unless you know what you are doing

This is the best graff documentation I’ve seen yet…

3D Graffiti Animation Outside Serge Gainsbourg’s Home
via Hypebeast

Har lyckats dra in ett fungerade vapen in i UDK.. Jag är rätt nöjd med vad jag kan göra med UDK nu.

Det är ungefär nu som allt kräver att sitta o fibbla i koder/programmering. Och det ska jag ju inte hålla på med mer än lite.

Hello everyone!
I present to all of you my first demoreel. It still having many defects,
but I think for a first try its ok. Please sendme some positive critics. This will help me to improve it!

Thanks!

Hunter

Publisher: Activision

Developed by: Paul Holmes and Martin Walker

Genre: 3-D Adventure, Strategy

Year: 1991

Hunter is a game that takes you into a world where mayhem and destruction can reign free on your enemies and in whatever form that takes your fancy. Having first played this on my Amiga I’ve been hooked ever since and it’s the main reason I’m a big fan of games such as GTA. Playing it through again brings back some great memories and is certainly a welcome addition to my games collection. Hunter can be classed as a 3D adventure, strategy game, developed by Paul Holmes and Martin Walker (music) and released in 1991 by Activision.

Hunter lets you play three different scenarios; MISSIONS, whereby you receive an objective and deadline to complete, once you have completed your mission you return to HQ to receive more orders. The objectives become subsequently harder and the time shorter to complete each mission. ACTION, your man in the field is given a long list of enemy targets, it is then up to you to use the map and log book to locate each target and destroy them. Once again you are racing against the clock to finish the list. Finally the main scenario, HUNTER, is the trickiest of them all. You must track down and kill the enemy General by collecting clues from civilians, bribing enemies, and by using a number of objects, vehicles and weapons to help you succeed. The deeper you go into enemy territory and the closer you come to completing this scenario the harder it gets, you are racing against the clock and options can become limited if you aren’t prepared for battle!

The game is controlled via mouse and keyboard or my preferred method mouse and joystick. The joystick controls the directional movement of your man as well as firing weapons, it also controls stop and start in vehicles and moving them around (point to note, there is no reverse). The mouse comes into play with the strategy side to the game and is used in the selection of weapons and sundry items needed to progress. You will need to use aerial observation units, parachutes, maps and radar, or maybe you just fancy slipping into your newly acquired enemy uniform. Both control methods are easy to utilise and when using the mouse to select from the popup menu the game conveniently pauses.

Hunter has great game play interlaced with simple graphics (as with many other great retro games) and makes the most of its sweeping landscapes and 3D environment. Greens, oranges and blues make up your basic air, land and sea colours making buildings, vehicles and people easy to indentify. Vehicles are well drawn and conveniently placed at your disposal around the map, whether it’s a car, tank, helicopter or bicycle (less said about the windsurfer the better) you’ll be glad of the free ride as walking can be slow and tedious. Vehicles run smoother and faster than you would expect and each have their own unique uses (cars are nippy and tanks are slower, but can also take some serious missile damage). Helicopters are easy to fly after the initial trauma of take off but are a bugger to land, especially if in a rush, best to put down in a safe area and walk the rest of the way!

The variety of weapons and sundry items is impressive. You can use a number of explosives to destroy targets or just have some fun generally blowing stuff up. The player can use land and timed mines, sea to air missiles, bazookas, 80mm shells, grenades and all the while carrying your trusty sidearm. Aerial observation units and radar help you scope out and assess the landscape and can be useful in finding people, buildings and vehicles. The food and money collected is used to bribe and gather information and the enemy uniform to breeze into enemy territory without a care in the world.

Apart from the title screen Hunter relies solely on sound effects to create its ambience.  Across the landscape the player can hear gun fire, explosions and roaming vehicles, or a sultry seagull flying overhead, destined to make you its own special target (why else would it be following me…). The maps, a different one for each scenario, give the game a sense of vastness when you begin your mission, and in its quieter moments, especially when dusk has fallen (use flares to light the way, or turn the brightness up on the monitor), can be a little creepy and lonely without anything else around you. Hunter has few drawbacks, if any. Walking everywhere will cost  you time and time is of the essence in Hunter so by the end you’ll be thankful for that enemy disguise, extra fuel can, or the fact the soldier who arrived to work that morning forgot to lock his bike up to his guard tower.

Hunter is a game (for its time obviously) with the freedom and almost limitless possibilities of any of today’s titles that fall into the sandbox genre (think GTA, but slower, and with simpler graphics). Hunter is a classic and still fantastic to play, its open environment and vast maps make it challenging, fun and atmospheric. This concluding sentence from Amiga Power (Aug 1991) really summed the game up for me and my own experience of playing the game back in the day. Jonathan Davies wrote in The Bottom Line “Hunter was a real all rounder, there was something for everyone in there, all wrapped up in a believable 3D world you can get lost in for hours.”  You can read the full review here on Amiga Magazine Rack.

The only music in the game comes from the title screen, listen to it here  Hunter Main Theme.

To give you an idea of the game play check out the first mission (in the MISSIONS scenario) being played out. This video is over 6 mins and just gives you a feel for the game play.

The interrobang, to which I was recently introduced, is a non-standard English punctuation mark, intended to combine the exclamation point and question mark. These things are great for rhetorical questions, and a perfect one-character replacement for “!?”, or “?!”.

I can only foresee good things coming from this newfound knowledge. Am I going to use interrobangs in my online ramblings and public speech?

“Um, YES‽ HELLO‽”

More info at Wikipedia.

"Help me find Obi-Wan; I feel like McDonald's."

The 3-D action movie “Avatar,” due in theaters December 18, is creating a market product for companies like Coca Cola and McDonalds. These companies have managed to recreate 3D experiences in product containers like the Coke can or the McDonald’s Happy Meal “McWorld virtual world.”

Relative: a little side project to make more money, just like Hot Topic did with the Twilight gear.

For the article, visit Marketers Hop on Augmented Reality Bandwagon to Promote \’Avatar\’

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Hacklab’s laser cutter got the customary musical treatment. You can see it play the theme from mario brothers here. It’s nothing new to us, but we still enjoy seeing it done.

Ever been curious how a pole transformer is made? Quench that curiosity with this educational video. [via HackedGadets]

Here’s a quasi humanoid robot that is designed to be your workout trainer. He’ll show you the exercises, give you motivational and encouraging pep talks and even play games with you. We think the idea sounds good, but in execution, he flails his arms and randomly says creepy insincere sounding things like “I’m having  fun. I could play this game all day long. I’m having too much fun.” That’s just creepy.

[Mr. Nelson] got sick of walking all the way down the hall just to see if there was anyone in the bathroom. His solution was to build this massively overdone indicator light system. It uses a proximity sensor located in each bathroom to determine occupied status and has a fantastic industrial look.

If you’ve ever wanted to get into 3d photography you’ll be pleased to see this writeup on how to build a simple rig and compile the images for different viewing methods.

We were amazed by these beautifully crafted brass machines. The one in this video is solar powered and seems to run pretty smoothly. Not bad for something that was all hand crafted from sheets of brass.

Be careful with this one folks. This video shows how to melt a beer bottle in your microwave. We’re not sure why you would want to, but we sure enjoyed watching it happen. Maybe that’s reason enough.

Erm… right. As to yesterday’s entry, I’d had a bottle of wine and was feeling tipsy! So I woke up a little while ago but that wasn’t the first time I’ve been awake today – I woke up at 9ish and asked Chris for a drink, then woke up at 11 for a while before falling back to sleep.

I then went on to dreaming about Tony Gordon and then Cedric Diggory as Edward Cullen. There was a lot of blood in the first one and someone who was meant to be Hayley was in it. She killed him and then went on to try and kill me and someone else (can’t remember who it was now) but Tony was only pretending to be dead and I saw him alive right at the end. The other one was basically Cedric running around the grounds of a grand house during the day and I was trying to protect him and make sure he didn’t fry.

Oh, there was another weird one with loads of rain and another one where Nicolai was with us and we got into a lift (anyone who knows me knows that I have a mortal fear of them and when I dream of them, it never ends well) and I don’t think Chris was there but my first thought was to hold on tight to him like I usually do in lifts. But anyway, the lift only went down a couple of floors but it sort of span on it’s way down instead of just going straight. As soon as the doors opened, I ran out and went into the street to wait for the others to come out. Nicolai came out, followed by my Nan and Jacqueline, who for some reason, had purple hair with glitter? I think that was it. That was the first one I before the weird rain one and the Tony Gordon one and the Cedric one.

I still feel tired! Gonna have some pasta and tomato Ragu. Chris’ sister had loads of her friends round last night and they were singing and shouting until about 1am. I said that they were lightweights but now I know it’s because they were going somewhere today. I heard Alex shouting about it this morning when I first woke up. Think they’re prolly going to Camden. Chris pointed out that their group of friends was like how we were back in the day but the other way round; we had 2 girls and a bunch of boys. I’ve always got on better with boys, ever since junior school. Funny really how two of my best friends, who were best friends, are completely different now. One of them is a complete and utter chav (which surprised me) and the other is normal (but I knew he would be). As for the other two, one of them is a junior accountant (I only know this cos we got his post one day by accident – I was so proud of him ) and I don’t know anything about the other one. Just found one of them on Facebook and the other one I probably wouldn’t recognise now.

Chris is playing Mario Sunshine on his Gamecube. What were Nintendo on? I always thought the SMS tracks on Mario Kart were a bit odd but the game they were based on…

I should get dressed really but I can’t be bothered.

Oh, hi to whoever is reading my blog through Facebook (although, tbh, it’s easier to just type in the address at the top instead of going to it through my profile). It’s good being able to see how people get to my blog and which links/pages/entries they look at. I can see everything, mwahahaha. Even what people type into Google when my blog comes up. I peaked at 48 views yesterday! The most since the 11th. Most of my views are from people on Twitter though. The Facebook viewer has only looked a couple of times.

So there was more 3D stuff on last night: “The Greatest 3D Moments Ever” which we recorded because the Impressions Show was on. We watched (well I watched) “Friday the 13th Part III” which was rubbish. Not scary at all. My dad said that he has seen all of them lol. There was some really obvious “you’re watching this in 3D” things, such as yo-yo’s coming at the screen, juggling balls, sticks, Jason’s arms. The Frankenstein movie was better with the 3D. Miley’s concert is on now in 3D and it does look pretty cool. Much better than the films. It looks semi-normal without the glasses too – the 3D blue/yellow stuff isn’t as obvious and there’s not as much ghosting. We’re gonna watch the shows on 4OD on the tv.

Nothing else to say now. Add stuff later.

x

Brand new footage of Avatar with lots of CGI! Actor Stephen Lang takes you into the world of Pandora through the eyes of his character Colonel Quaritch. Lang narrates the clip, describing his characters mission and the themes and dynamics of the storyline.

The Queen in 3D: Channel 4 (Recorded 16th Nov Watched 16th Nov)

I wouldn’t usually watch anything about the ‘royals’ if you paid me but this was an opportunity to use my Chuck 3D glasses again.

I started off being quite enthusiastic about the programme; it’s always interesting to see colour footage of life in the 1950s and earlier so it’s quite remarkable to see it in 3D.  Some of the scenes were incredibly effective and the ‘royal’ stuff wasn’t as interesting as the footage of ordinary people.

The problem was that the novelty wore off after about 10 minutes and then you’re just sat there watching boring clips.  It certainly made me question the current trend for 3D films in the cinema.

Top Gear: BBC HD (R 15th Nov W 17th Nov)

It’s the return of Top Gear (now in HD), the programme that evokes more conflicting emotions than any other programme that I watch.  On the negative side, the presenters are annoying, it’s too pleased with itself, there’s too much fakery and most of Clarkson’s views are reprehensible.  On the other hand it has a sense of adventure and wonder that you really don’t find anywhere else and it’s more beautifully shot than any Hollywood film.  Annoying but watchable.

Curb Your Enthusiasm: iTunes (Downloaded 17th Nov W 17th Nov)

I was distraught, last week, when I missed episode 5 of Curb but I decided to take Jed Unpopcult’s advice and download it from iTunes (as much as it hurt for me to pay for it).  And boy, was I ever glad that I did.  After last week’s somewhat disappointing episode Larry & co were right back on top form.  There really were too many funny bits to mention – but if I told you that the plot revolved around Larry dating a woman in a wheelchair, you might start to get the idea.  Highlights included: asking about a Chinese child’s proficiency with chopsticks, Larry attempting to kiss Denise in her wheelchair, Leon asking if Larry “brought it”, hiding the blackberry under the towel and Rosie O’Donnell being as pig-headed as Larry.

There haven’t been many programmes ever that have made me laugh so much.  If you’re not watching it then I want a written note from your mother as to why not.

Misfits: E4 (R 12th Nov W 19th Nov)

Misfits has, inevitably, been described as ‘Skins meets Heroes’ and this made me question whether I was actually going to bother watching it.  As much as the description put me off, there was no was that I was going to miss a British superhero programme.

Five, typically annoying, teens are struck by lightning while on community service and find that they have gained superpowers.  I have quite a low threshold for watching anything featuring ‘realistic’ teens, so the first ten minutes or so were a bit of a chore.  Things picked up, though, as the story gained momentum and it was really successfully done.  It’s rare that we get these high-concept sci-fi shows in the UK but when we do they often have a unique flavour.

Having the powers relate to the characters’ personalities wasn’t the subtlest touch (the shy one turns invisible etc) but by the end of the episode we did start to see them as real human beings.  I’ll definitely be tuning in for the second episode.

Stargate Universe: Sky One (R 17th Nov W 21st Nov)

I’ve been pretty underwhelmed by this series from the start but I stuck with it because it seemed like something might happen.  Well, it only took about 5 minutes of this episode before I decided that nothing was ever going to happen.  It felt like a relief to finally give up on it.

Kamikaze Girls: Film4 (R 13th Nov W 21st Nov)

I’ve got a habit of recording any foreign-language film that I spot because I’m a bit of a snob and they don’t tend to repeat them; you’ve got to watch them when you can.  The problem is that I’ve really got to be in the mood to watch a movie and when they’re sub-titled you really have to concentrate, so I’ve ended up with lots of unwatched films.  I’ve found myself deleting a few recently but I made an effort to watch this.

Kamikaze Girls could be described as a Japanese Amelie; it’s a quirky film that features an attractive female stuck in her own magical realism world.  This being a Japanese film, though, means that it has its own strangeness that makes it nothing like Amelie.  The plot, such as it is, revolves around two teenage girls who form an unlikely friendship – Momoko, who like to wear frilly ‘lolita’ dresses and Ichigo, a slightly psychotic biker chick.  In some ways nothing much else happens, but that would be really selling it short, and it kept my interest to the end.  There is a great scene towards the end when Momoko finally flips when trying to defend Ichigo against a biker gang that’s actually very funny.

I’d like to add that the reason that I liked the film had nothing to do with the main character being gorgeous and prancing round in ‘lolita’ outfits.  Honest.

Fast Track really impressive 3d online racing game. Your goal win this race first, you need win for unlock next level