Show Notes: Episode 117
Founder, Pixel Corps
We have many great tools to build 3D models but often times the most difficult details are organic and random. This is where most applications come up short. It’s easy to build something mechanical or even creature-like…but how do you add all the skin, scars, and other imperfections that make it feel real.
Zbrush allows you to paint or sculpt in 3D. Instead of building models like a carpenter, you painting or sculpt them. This is the secret to many of the creatures you see in today’s movies.
PRODUCTS SHOWN
ZBrush
www.pixologic.com
Editor, blognation Canada
Teams aren’t just the people you work with in the office anymore. The Lab with Leo is a perfect example. You have team members all over the place and you need to keep documents, tasks, and other materials updated and team members on track. The Web 2.0 boom has brought with it a raft of great web-based collaboration tools and in the last six months some new and innovative ones have hit the scene. We’ll take a quick tour of some of them and look at what to look for in a web-based collaboration tool.
- There are lots of easy ways to connect and collaborate online with web-based tools
- They range from free to subscription
- First think about what you need to do and then look at the tools to match (share files, organize a team, coordinate a project).
- Keeping it simple is best.RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
www.thinkfree.com
Electronics Engineer, Color Scientist, Teacher, Speaker
1.Seventy percent of amateur jugglers are in technical fields of work. They are in engineering, physical sciences, or mathematicians.
2.B Roll of the Portland juggling festival.
3.Music has a notation, so does juggling. It is called site swap notation.
4.Two separate people invented it at the same time.
5.A website that explains site swap notation: http://www.juggling.org/help/siteswap/
6.A website that can animate site swap notation so that you can see the pattern: http://www.koelnvention.de/software/
7.When I attended the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, Apple would always provide juggling props and members of the Stanford Juggling Club to juggle with attendees during the breaks between sessions.
8.Famous Bell Labs mathematician Ron Graham is a former president of the International Juggling Association and worked his way through college as a juggler and trampoline performer.
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Air Date: December 4, 2007
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Peter, Sydney, NSW
- Heather, Roseworthy, SA
- Wayne, Maroubra, NSW
Yewell's Jewels
- UFRawwindowsmaclinux
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s raw conversion utility - DCRaw. UFRaw supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply color profiles.
Sean's Shinies
- Boynq Alibi
$80
To get started in the world of video chat, you need two key things: a camera, and a headset. The Boynq Alibi is designed to do the job of both these components… not only is it a speaker with built-in microphone, but press on the top and up pops a 1.3 megapixel USB webcam which tilts and swivels. To be fair, the speaker quality isn’t the best you’ll find, and it’s a bit frustrating that the speaker/mic portion requires analogue connectors instead of hooking to the computer via USB. But for $80 it does solve a problem for a lot of people.Shiny:
- pop-up webcam is positionable
- built-in microphone
Dull
- speaker quality middling
- uses analogue audio jacks
Kate’s Tips
- Jelly Blocks
Quite possibly the most addictive game ever. The task is simple enough - to connect all of the same coloured blocks together. There are 100 levels, and you’ll want to complete them all!