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The wallpaper I used on my desktop started to get a bit boring, so I created a new one using blender. The main light-source of the render is Ambient Occlusion and a small point light near the horizon.

you can download the blend-file here or a hires version of the image here

I just noticed that much time has passed since I posted my last completely useless processing sketch. So to change this I present you some random grey boxes, made with processing. (click on the image to see them in action)

have fun

I just released a new version of my processing freetts wraper

in this version I added two new speak methods that allow to choose the speaker the voice is coming from

tts.speak( "I am in the center" );
tts.speakLeft( "I am on the left" );
tts.speakRight( "I am on the right" );

go to the ttslib project page and download a copy. Installation works as usual by unzipping the file in your sketchbook/library folder.

I decided to participate in this weeks "Vimeo Weekend Project". The project theme this week is "One Minute of Reflection"

the video has to be exact 1 minute long and use no paning, zooming or editing. It should be something that I'm grateful - so I chose my coffee-machine :-)

This is a short blender animation that plays with light and shadow of letters

you can download the blend file here

This is another part of my bend and twist experiments. For this part I added an displacement modifier to the twisted object

you can download the blend file here

This animation was generated using the same technique as my yesterdays video, but I animated three displacement modifiers instead of one

you can download the blend file here

For this animation I used a displacement modifier to displace the faces of an icosphere. Its rendered using cycles and it took ages to render because I still cant use cycles on my GPU without crashing my computer :-/

you can download the blend file here

For this part of my twist and bend experiments I kneaded a sphere into an elephant. The final shape was generated using shape-keys

you can download the blend file here

I'm currently experimenting with twisting and bending things in blender. For this part I used a simple-deform modifier to twist and bend the object

you can download the blend file here