Ryan Ellis

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Useful guide to light colors

http://www.3drender.com/glossary/colortemp.htm

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Apparently this flaming hole was created when a gas drilling rig caused a collapse while drilling.  It was decided that the gas leaking out would be an environmental hazard so it was set alight.  That was 1971, and it has been burning ever since.

Wikipedia

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Relaxing

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CrazyBump is freaking rad.  I broke down and purchased it today… It’s expensive but worth it I tink.

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http://www.neave.com/imagination/

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Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Childs Play Auction and Dinner.  All together they managed to raise 200,000 dollars for sick kids, bravo!  Never before have I seen that many game developers dressed so nicely, a polar opposite of GDC.  The evening started with drinking, socializing, and bidding on silent auction pieces.  Mostly artwork donated by various game companies.  After that was dinner and a live auction.  Good stuffs.  And thank you to Casey of Molly Rocket for setting up the evening for us.

PS.  The iPhone camera is freaking terrible.

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My brother and I found a rattlesnake den about 200 yards from the house… We counted well over 50 snakes scattered around. I also got some really nice HD footage that I will post later.

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This script creates a spiral. Play with the settings to get a bunch of different effects.

global proc makeOpenSpiral()
{

//tweakables
int $points = 180;
float $startRadius = 0;
float $endRadius = 2;
float $xOrigin = 0;
float $zOrigin = 0;
float $yOrigin = 0;
float $degrees = 1800;
//

float $increment = ($degrees/$points);
float $radiusIncrement = (($endRadius-$startRadius)/$points);
float $step;
float $radialStep;

string $cmd = “curve -d 3 “;
for ($i = 0; ($points+1) > $i; ++$i)
{

$step = $increment * $i;
$step = `deg_to_rad $step`;
$radialStep = ($startRadius + ($radiusIncrement * $i));

float $xPos = ($xOrigin + ($radialStep * `cos $step`));
float $zPos = ($zOrigin + ($radialStep * `sin $step`));

// float $yPos = `sin $i`;
// float $yPos = ($points / ($i+1));
// float $yPos = (($i+.01)*.01);
float $yPos = $yOrigin;

$cmd = ($cmd + ” -p ” + $xPos + ” ” + $yPos + ” ” + $zPos);

}

eval $cmd;

}

Nebs Art, Maya / .mel

New album is out and you can buy it online!  You can get it in DRM free mp3 format… Awesome.
I always feel good being able to directly support artists.  Viva teh interwebs!

Best 5 bucks I have spent this year.

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0711/ar9906_trace.mpg

This truly is astounding…

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I made another car… I call it Frankin-afro-guy-car. Pretty sweet name no?   I have gifted this one as well… Are you the lucky owner of a new Frankin-afro-guy-car? Probably not.

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I was digging through some old files and I found this lighthouse I did   a few years ago.   For some reason I really dig lighthouses.

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This was made using nothing but a .mel script. The script generated many nodes than drew random curves between the nodes. Then particles were spawned along the curves. If I can find the script I will post it.

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Hopefully I will make this a tradition. This is a texture of burnt soil. The full size is 2048×2048. It has been made tile-able.

Full Size: burnt_soil.jpg

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I think I finally got something working for the latest level.   I don’t know why it was so hard to pull together?   Maybe its spring fever… I may try to go golfing with my bro to celebrate.

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During my research for a recent level I came across this nice little page about brick dimensions….

http://www.sizes.com/materls/modular_brick.htm  

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