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Creating a simple model of a 3d building block. This tutorial was originally written to encourage the use of additional tools when 3d modelling and to push beginners into the simplest methods of box modelling.  Namely selections, extrude, shapemerge. First step is to make a cube with 3 segments for Height, Width and, Length. When making ... Read More

This is an article I wrote several years ago that I plan to revise soon, so in the interests of posterity, here it is again before I work on it. Photorealism : ( Fo-to-reel-isum) the art of making an image look like a photograph. That should be all the definition we need, and it’s how we’re going to work with the term. It’s entirely possible to render surreal items or bizarre ... Read More

When writing code in MySQL, you don't need to write inner joins. Well you do, but you don't need to say "INNER JOIN" MySQL uses a dot syntax which makes our code so much easier. Our example uses 3 tables with several columns each. A table of users, a table of DVD's and a table showing who has borrowed what and when. Users: id,Name DVD: id, Title, genre loans: id,owner,Title,Date So we have entries in all of these tables. And we want to retrieve a list of all ... Read More

So, Let's talk photography. What are the basics you need to know. I think there's 5 things you need to know. Shutter Speed Aperture Iso Depth of Field Framing 1. Shutter Speed: Pretty self explanatory here. Shutter speed is about how long the shutter stays open for. The longer it is open the more light comes in. Most photos are taken with a shutter speed measured in tenths or hundredths of a second. The shutters are inside your camera, directly in front of the sensor. Shutter speed controls how much of ... Read More