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Fun with markers
Almost two weeks ago I was looking to buy more colour pencils, as my old set of 12 pencils didn't include any skin tones. Well, I found me a nice 24 piece set, which still doesn't contain many skin...
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Animal test subjects
I noticed some time ago that using five pointed stars as example material is growing a bit old. I needed something new to test these filters with. So, I came up with the idea of using animal test...
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Filter effects: Composite
This is part of my filter effects tutorial series.Composite is, as the name states, an effect that can composite images together. It uses the Porter-Duff blending modes named after the writers of the...
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When PCI is not PCI
This week I bought two new peripherials for my computer: an USB 2.0 controller card and a sound card. Before you ask, yes, neither of those are integrated on the motherboard. Originally it wasn't a...
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LGM has begun
The Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 has now begun and I'm here. I arrived yesterday and it's been a bit of a crash course to life in Poland. Stuffed buses, not having a common language with shop clerks,...
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Rant: Curly Braces
I bumped into an writing called Java: Braces are your friend. While I can see that there are good reasons to use braces after every if statement (or after for, while, do...), the reasoning seemed a bit...
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Filter effects: Convolve Matrix
This is part of my filter effects tutorial seriesConvolve Matrix can be used for several different effects like blurring, sharpening, edge detection and embossing. While it's a powerful tool, it can...
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Fun with markers 2: Freefall
A couple days ago I bumped into a great webcomic Freefall. One thing that caught my interest was how well the artist is able to express the characters' moods, reactions etc. in small scale and with...
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Big Buck Bunny
You may remember the Elephants Dream, the open short movie. It was developed as project Orange at the Happy Blender Institute. Now, a new team working on project Peach at the Blender Institute has...
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Filter effects: Lighting effects
This is part of my filter effects tutorial seriesLighting effects can help in creating a feeling of depth in you image. They take in a height map and various light and material parameters and produce a...
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Bubblun
This project has been unfinished for far too long, so this week I decided to complete it. And now it's finished, at last! So let me present to you: my own super-huggable video game plushie.Made of...
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Never Trust a Smiling Succubus?
So, she approaches you, with bright smile and cute-but-curvy looks. Talks sweet nothings to your ear. Why should there be anything to worry about? Horns? What horns?Markers and black pen on paper....
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Filter effects: Displacement map
This is part of my Filter effects tutorial series.Displacement map is used to warp images in different fashions. For example many of you may have seen a screen saver that warps a small, moving area of...
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Filter effects: Flood
This is part of my Filter effects tutorial series.Flood may be the most simple filter primitive there is. It simply fills the whole filter area with one colour. By itself it's mostly useless, but it's...
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Filter effects: Gaussian blur
This is part of my Filter effects tutorial series.Gaussian blur makes objects appear softer and less clearly defined. Even by itself it is so useful that it was the first filter effect to be...
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Making buttons with Inkscape
During my university studies I've made several buttons for TKO-äly, the organization for computer science students at Helsinki University. Here I'll describe my method for creating these buttons. The...
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Blender M3G export error
I'm attempting to build a game atop Kajak3D framework. For that I'm creating models in Blender and exporting them to M3G format.Well, exporting my very first model failed with "Python script error:...
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Drawing for Assembly 2011
I created this image on Inkscape for the Fast Graphics competition at Assembly 2011. The theme for this year was Last minute and there was one and half hours time to make the image, from when the theme...
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Soundbox project and Alternative party
I've been building a digital instrument that has been inspired by the Luna Mod which was presented in the Make magazine some while ago. It is a two-voice software synthesizer implemented on an Atmel...
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Soundbox — what makes it tick
I did have the soundbox device I have built with me at Alternative Party 2011. It did attract a fair amount of interest, though nowhere near what my 32×8 LED screen did. I think I'll have to write a...
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