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Archive for 2009

Getting to grips with Blender – PtII: The Bottle

Okay – so for my second experiment, I decided that I wanted to learn a little about reflections and transparency. So I decided to try and create a bottle (generic type – looks a little like a milk-bottle), that was full of water, and reflected the scene around it. I followed some very good tutorials [...]


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Waiting for my tablet….

No, it’s not some kind of prescription medication addiction – I’m talking graphics tablet! Thanks to GE’s Long Service Award, I treated myself to a Wacom Bamboo Fun Graphics Tablet. Why did I buy one? Well, I’ve had one before, and used it mainly for sketching out diagrams (rather than spend my day in Visio-Land), [...]


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Visual Integration Patterns

I’d like to know what people think on this subject. Right now, today – there is a certain degree of expection that Business Processes – which are typically quite “step-by-step” – have a visual tool that allows (non-)technical creators/editors/debuggers to Create/Edit/View them. This is fine for Business Processes – their “flow” is typically represented as [...]


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A Blog without a post…

Is like an Enterprise Integration Pattern without a destination – useless!! So here’s a “Hello World” blog post – I’ll post something more significant later…



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Getting to grips with Blender – The Big Maoi

This is the result of my first serious attempt to create anything in Blender. Using a combination of Edit and Sculpt mode – I was able to recreate a 3D Model of this “Big Maoi”. The “real” Maoi sits on my desk, is about 12inches high – and doubles as a Kleenex dispenser – although [...]


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