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25.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 25th September 2022
This week started with a drop on NiftyGateway for the forthcoming book CryptoArt Begins, created by NFT Magazine and edited by Elenora …
21.08.22 That Was The Week That Was – 21st August 2022
Operator – Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti – are two of my favourite artists; their work is brilliant, engaging, challenging and always thought …
17.01.22 Deleting all but the largest connected mesh in Houdini
How do you keep the largest connected mesh / primitive in Houdini and delete all the smaller, unconnected primitives? This was something I …
16.11.20 Scaling Packed Primitives with Vex in Houdini
Making a note of this handy code snippet I found on https://forums.odforce.net/topic/23353-scaling-packed-objects-with-vex/ for scaling …
19.07.20 That Was The Week That Was — 19th July 2020
This was the week my site, and a few sites I host, totally blew up, and not in good way. It started with a text from a restaurant owning …
17.07.20 Comprehensive list of resources on the topic of digital morphogenesis (the …
Comprehensive list of resources on the topic of digital morphogenesis (the creation of form through code). Great resource here.
04.07.20 Creating Variable Length Trails in Houdini
Using the Trails SOP in Houdini makes it pretty trivial to create trails from points. However these trails will always have the same …
28.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 28th June 2020
HAS magazine from UNESCO appeared this week, featuring my Art of Cybersecurity work. The magazine looks great though I personally hate …
14.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 14th June 2020
This week I've been exploring some ideas with Vellum — Houdini's soft body simulation system. It seemed my wobbly low-poly horse struck a …
31.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 31st May 2020
Danielle Newnham published an interview with me as part of her Beyond Work series, looking at how founders and innovators have been coping …
24.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 24th May 2020
In the course of researching an approach to creating a new piece of client work, in WebGL, I searched around for something node / graph …
26.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2020
Lusted over the stationery made by Amorial. Like this quote from Freud about consideration when writing a letter: I consider it a good rule …
05.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th April 2020
During the second week of lock down, I started on a new idea, taking the colours from the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol One and …
09.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 9th February 2020
A beautiful book arrived in the post this week from Christopher Grünberger. Analog Algorithm — Source Related Grid Systems, is a kind of …
04.02.20 How to convert a JSON file to CSV — PYTHON SCRIPT
How to convert a JSON file to CSV — PYTHON SCRIPT Just used this handy script for something I’m working on, needing to convert JSON to CSV. …
03.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 2nd February 2020
This week I started on a new client piece of work — something quite different to the things I've been doing of late, seeing me back using …
26.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th January 2020
With a new commercial piece of work starting next week, which will see me working in Processing, my thoughts turned to having to switch …
05.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th January 2020
Every now and then I like to go back and revisit an experiment I've been playing with, to see if I can dig down further, to see what might …
31.12.19 Moving all the points in a Houdini primitive using Vex
This is just a quick one but wanted to note this down for future reference. Sometimes it's handy to be able to manipulate all the points in …
31.12.19 Visually Setting the Depth of Field Focal Point in Houdini
When using Depth of Field in Houdini, I've always found it a little frustrating that you can't visually set a focal point for the camera, …
15.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th December 2019
It seems next year the theme is one of collaboration if this week's phone conversations is anything to go by. The last few weeks have been …
01.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 1st December 2019
I started to drill down into my Code in your Pocket print project. As I began to play with the code I realised some of the iterations began …
24.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th November 2019
On Thursday I travelled to Glasgow to speak at the inaugural Silicon Swalley — an event organised by Filament PD, who I haven't seen for a …
30.09.19 Handy FFMpeg Automator Scripts
This is a follow up to the post detailing how to quickly convert sequential images into a movie using ffmpeg. Since writing that I've added …
28.09.19 Dynamically Populating Houdini Menus with Data to Use as an Interface Element
A quick screen cast to show how I go about creating interface elements in Houdini from data, which can be used to drive various elements of …
16.09.19 A Simple Colour / Texture Map Creator Using Processing
When I'm working in Houdini or other 3D software, I might need to use an image as a colour map texture which can then be applied to a …
01.09.19 What the Ack! Multi-file Find and Replace with Vim and Ack
Occasionally it's handy to be able to do a find and replace across multiple files, or even insert something new across many files. Using …
14.08.19 Adobe Alternatives
No longer will you find Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on any of the Macs I use. You will find Premiere but that's only kept around in case …
06.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — 4th August 2019
The Entagma Houdini tutorials on Vimeo have been a great resource for my Houdini learnigs, and so I thought it was about time to stump up …
31.07.19 Strangely enough, all my work this year has been made using node and wire style …
I find it a really nice, intuitive, visual and playful way to work. Of course I also combine with code when I need to (though Python in TD …