Experiments on CAD

A perspective view of a Treehouse I made, my first experiment I've ever done on CAD and I have to say I really love the programme, it's easy to use and quite fun

Sculptypaint and flowers

Experimenting with Sculptypaint, the first programme I used to help me to understand sculpties, the only thing I made that I really like was this bizarre looking flower which cost me L$20 to upload, oh well, such is life.

Here is a link to download Sculptypaint:
http://elout.home.xs4all.nl/sculptpaint/





HOWEVER, I highly recommend first browsing Torley's channel on youtube, as it is full of helpful advice to those who (like me) are new to second life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEAM1GCzk74

Progress on Second Life

Slowly getting the hang of using Second Life, my group and I have roughly plotted out a library (as you can see, garish colours amuse us.) However with future refinements I see this looking quite good!

Patkau Architects present: JELLYFISH

After reading one of my previously posted journals (easily located in my del.icious account if you're curious) I came across Patkau Architects, who are one of five winners of the Warming Huts v.2011 “Art and Architecture Competition on Ice in Winnipeg.


Seriously, read this article:


http://www.riverroadcommunications.com/2011/02/winnipeg%E2%80%99s-architectural-art-show-on-ice/


And because the article lacks a nice photo, I've been kind enough to provide one for you:

Apparently these are plywood shells, I love the shapes, they're abstract yet still seem to have a defined form... Here's hoping experimenting on Second Life will produce similar results!

Offset filters, Alpha channels, oh my.

Doing some experiments for Media, figuring out how to use alpha channels on Photoshop, which is something I never knew about!

Making an offset filter, manipulating light with a nice blue colour I made (if you're interested the "code" for this particularly fetching blue is 290992)

Messing about with Alpha channels, making a mesh/bulstrade? I thought it might look quite modern

The final product, or at least the product I liked the most, the brainchild of the previous two images, I'm hoping to incorporate it into a design on Second Life!

3 Interesting links about Architecture in the Virtual World

http://web.williams.edu/art/architectureVR/

http://archvirtual.com/

http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/

The three blogs I found from second year students.

http://eslernie.blogspot.com/

http://journalimage.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html

http://katherinebayard.blogspot.com/
(My favourite)