The Texturize plugin for GIMP
Friday, January 20, 2006, 09:15 PM - Apt-get Install
Textures are probably one of the most undervalued elements in 3D modelling. That's why, among other reasons, this plugin is so awsome:
Imagine that you have an image with a small sample of a texture, like a few strawberries (out of a plate full of them), a few square inches of grass (from a large grassy field), or a few dozens of your cat's hairs (your cat really has more than that). If you want to generate a larger texture with this small image, you could just copy-paste it, and put the copies (or "patches") one next to another, but that wouldn't produce a very good result, since the right (or top) part of the image usually doesn't correspond to its left (or bottom) part, when two copies of the image are assembled.
The Texturize plugin allows you to get all the strawberries, the whole grass field, or your whole cat (well, it doesn't guess you cat's shape, but you can at least get a lot of his hairs!). Moreover, Texturize lets you actually create tileable textures (which is great for game design). Have a look at the examples section to see what it looks like
The Texturize plugin is available under the GPL license and is multiplatform. Blink!
15 comments Understanding UNIX/Linux file system (I)
Friday, January 20, 2006, 08:45 PM - Apt-get Install
A conceptual understanding of file system, especially data structure and related terms will help you become a successful system administrator. I have seen many new Linux system administrator w/o any clue about file system. The conceptual knowledge can be applied to restore file system in an emergency situation.
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The [AR] Coliseum
Sunday, September 11, 2005, 01:55 PM - Apt-get Install, Games
From the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo:
In this study, a game environment using augmented reality (AR) technology that enables virtual functions for playing a game using small robots is proposed. Similar to how children can use their imaginations to make a normal room into the air for playing games with toy airplane, we propose a way to embody such imaginations virtually by superimposing computer graphics onto toys in the real world.
Playing with toys such as small robots and vehicles is improved and enhanced by projecting images to the areas corresponding to the actual positions and directions of the toys. In addition, objects are able to express the phenomena of this augmented reality world by controlling actuators according to the results of simulations.
In the environment that we propose, the games are played with small robots and vehicles that can be treated as actual toys of the real world.
How cool is that.
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The rest of Tom's Hardware Report on Siggraph
Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux
Sunday, September 11, 2005, 01:09 PM - Apt-get Install
In '89, an ancient Sumerian deity named Zuul razed downtown New York with her avatar, a flaming, Stay-puft Mallowzilla. In related news, the aptly named "Mozilla Foundation" has released Firefox 1.5 Beta, a web browser built on an easily extended, cross-platform application framework called XUL (pronounced "Zuul"). In this article, I will provide insight into how to professionally develop a Firefox Extension with GNU/Linux. For demonstration, I'll develop an application called Stantz.
This article is directed to anybody who wants to extend Firefox. Experience writing HTML, Javascript, and CSS should be all you need to understand XUL. Some knowledge about the Linux command line and the Python programming language are desirable, but not necessary. You may want to play with an Apache web server's configuration, and experience handling a neutron accelerator pack would certainly help. Thankfully, you won't need to build Mozilla and you won't have to compile any C or C++.
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Traceart
Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 11:09 PM - Apt-get Install
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The tracert DOS command is used to trace the network points that join one computer with another computer on the Internet. The journey is determined by IP addresses of destinations, and how many milliseconds it takes to reach them.
Traceart is one of Siggraph's best instalations. See the rest in Hack a Day
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