I was reading this article and was amazed to see the progress of solid state drives (SSD). It wasn’t that long ago when it was expensive enough to buy a 64MB pen drive and now a company is preparing to ship “in volume” a 1.6TB drive for use in computing. This really is moving on [...]

I have just finished messing around in 3DS Max for the day. It’s very early in the morning but it seems to be when I do my best work. I created some illuminating shapes using V-Ray and then managed to create chrome and glass materials and apply them to some objects. What I can’t figure [...]

Thanks to a tutorial from Russell Smith here I have finally been able to create a very nice reflective effect in 3DS Max. Now I’m just messing about with materials, colours and looking at V-Ray which I have just installed. Sooo many options! Here’s what I’ve done so far, the third one using V-Ray and [...]

Hello World! This is a very apt phrase at the moment as I have been learning php and the first thing it was used for is to echo “Hello World!”. It is also appropriate as I have managed (after much tweaking) to use WordPress and my own domain to host my own blog… so to [...]

So when I should be coding php or learning Python (on my own) I am in fact just pissing about in 3D Max. I managed to get hold of the V-Ray rendering engine and followed some tutorials of glass and things. Really I just wanted to make a cool wallpaper… I’m still working on that, [...]

This is the sub title for our new brief. Using PHP and content management systems, how would we change the world? This struck me as odd… as I have a little experience with PHP and MySQL I was struggling to understand how I could change the world using such technologies. I had no ideas about [...]