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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 …
03.01.20 It's Good to Talk — How Having Video Calls With My Peers Keeps Me Sane
A few years ago Joel Gethin Lewis sent me a private message on Twitter, asking how I was and how we should have a catch-up sometime on …
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, …
29.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 29th December 2019
My last weekly post of 2019. Maybe I will do one of those year in review things. Maybe I won't. This week has obviously been taken up with …
22.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd December 2019
The Dubai large screen visualisation enquiry I had last week has now been moved back to a little later in the New Year, so the pressure is …
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 …
09.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 8th December 2019
After getting back from OFFF Sevilla late on Sunday, the next few days consisted of phone calls with some exciting new collaborators, …
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 …
17.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 17th November 2019
My latest client work was delivered at the beginning of the week. I decided to re-render one of the images as when looking at it later that …
10.11.19 VFX File Formats You Need to Know to Save Time and Space
VFX File Formats You Need to Know to Save Time and Space Nice write-up on VFX image file formats from Pluralsight.
03.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd November 2019
This week I made the decision to move my Produced for Use products to an Amazon Warehouse, so Amazon could not only fulfill orders, but …
28.10.19 More UV packing experiments
This time using a simple rectangle. #Houdinifx #generativedesign #generativeart #computationalart #codedart
27.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 27th October 2019
After several days of wrangling with colours for the latest piece of work, liking something then a few hours later realising it was …
23.10.19 The Making of Kind of Blue
The Making of Kind of Blue Great documentary on the making of what is regarded as the greatest jazz record of all time. Recently got a …
20.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 20th October 2019
This latest work is almost done, except now I'm trying to wrestle with these new colours that need to be incorporated somehow. My initial …
17.10.19 Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?
Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? Fascinating article in the New Yorker about the current and future state of machine …
13.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 13th October 2019
Much of this week saw me doing final work for the next Produced for Use release, scheduled for the end of October. I invested in a nice …
09.10.19 A room with no boundaries
Voronoi fracture which is then exploded to create gaps and the made into a poly wire. #houdinifx #generativedesign #generativeart
07.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 6th October 2019
I iterated from the Voronoi fracture stuff I was doing the week before and decided to try it out with some typography, using the Crayonette …
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 …
29.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 29th September 2019
More learnings this week in Houdini, as I dive deeper into Vellum, Houdini's soft body simulation stuff. For a while I had a series of …
24.09.19 Sorting a CSV File With Vim
This is just a quickie but I wanted to make a note as it can come in handy. I had a csv file detailing population density for various …
24.09.19 Developing a system in Houdini to create dynamic interfaces from data
Spent the morning developing a dynamic interface system in Houdini which will populate a menu with CSV data, which I can then use in …
23.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd September 2019
When I have a bit of down time I try and use that time to learn new things or new techniques that I might later use in my work. So this …
17.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th September 2019
At the start of the week I found myself firing up Fusion 360 to create a better case for my Git Deploy Notifier which I had built the …
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 …
10.09.19 If you want to get things done, pause | Life and style | The Guardian
If you want to get things done, pause | Life and style | The Guardian I’m a big fan of the pause.
08.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 8th September 2019
Arrived back to a drizzly UK after two weeks away in the French sunshine. I purposefully left me phone behind when we went out and didn't …