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this drawing started out as a deployment-doodle - I continued to draw a cylinder every-time I had to wait for a buildfile to bake an ear or a webapplication server to deploy it.

At home I saw that the cylinders had a face and added some eyes and a little background

a cycles-material to generate small neon-lines on a meta-ball object

you can download the blend file here

yeah! the people in greece know how to properly fight a fire! These tools might also come handy in case of a zombie breakout ...

I printed a little spider on my makerbot for our new office-jungle

you can download the blender file here
or the stl file here

When starting a blender scene almost everybody removes the default cube. This is kind of sad and therefore I started thinking about who to remove it with style.

for this part I made the default cube explode using a particle-system and an explode modifier

you can download the blend file here

we had quite a view thunderstorms last week and I finally managed to take a lightning picture. I took ca 300 pictures and captured 5 lightning bolts

I made a ruby rhyme generator - a simple commandline utility to generate nonsense rhymes like this

    si ninu si - na ma boto
    mo sito mo - de sa tato

    te dini ma - no ne dibi
    di nodi te - be be sebi

or this

    bo nibe bomeku
    te dibu domiku

    nu sibe keteso
    me tiba beneso

you can specify the number of verses and the rhythmic pattern on the commandline

Usage: rhyme [options]
    -p, --pattern PATTERN            the rythmic pattern
    -c, --count COUNT                number of verses

the default pattern is 121-112 like in the first example

this is a small processing sketch that dumps lots and lots of gray triangles on your screen

When starting a blender scene almost everybody removes the default cube. This is kind of sad and therefore I started thinking about who to remove it with style.

for this part I made a pacman eat the defaultcube. The pacman was generated using a boolean modifier and a animated cube that has been rotated by 45° on the x axis and is scaled up and down on the z axis

you can download the blend file here

I played a bit with dubliverts using cycles. It took me some time to find out how to hide the original object, because in cycles it doesn't disappear by default. It doesn't help to move the object to another layer or to hide it because this would also affect the child objects.

I finally found that the object gets hidden if you assign it empty dubliverts, because these don't get assigned to the child objects

you can download the blend file here