This site was meant originally to be dedicated to plumbing as a
field of 3d graphics. But eventually it developed into a site about
graphics, computers, digital art and some plumbing. Navigation is
made as simple as possible. The bar above is quite self-explanatory.
It contains the following buttons: "home", where you are now, and
where I put my albums and other important information, "tutorials"
which indexes the articles and tutorials that I wrote, "contact",
where you can send me an email, if you have something to say, and
"sitemap" for the curious and web-crawlers. "thoughts" is my blog.
The Picture of the Day
This is a random picture from the ones I took and developed in Photoshop by myself.
Click on it to get more information and find out its location.
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This photo album includes pictures I took mostly in Guelph and some in Stratford
Ontario. The pictures were developed in Adobe Photoshop to their final state you can
enjoy. Alternatively you might want to take a look at
the movie on Youtube.
Make sure "High Quality" is checked.
I was delayed at my plumbing work in winter 2007-2008, and in order to kill the spare time that I had in a huge amount I wrote in PHP and Javascript an on-line POV-Ray texture generator that I named TexGenPOV. It's a neat texture maker that outputs in a clean POV-Ray code and allows a fast preview. Unfortunately due to net limitations it doesn't support transparency and other slow features like interior and radiosity. But I hope to develop my program further to add everything that was not included yet and make it a really powerful texture editor, if I get enough of feedback and am sure that my TexGenPOV is needed. It will be off-line this time. One more important thing about TexGenPOV is that you can save your experiments in TexGenPOV's database to share with your friends and the whole world, like this.
I like to read ebooks which sometimes contain words that I don't know. I want to learn and to use them in my speech now and then. At first I tried saving and organizing these words and their definitions with a nice word-processor. That was great, but slow and inconvenient. Then I switched to a plain text and a text editor. That was a bit faster, but still inconvenient and ugly. When I got tired of all those useless manipulations, I wrote my own words organizer and dictionarier which is very convenient to use and is a great help to save, search and manage the words I want to memorize. And when I need them printed, if I really need it, I export the entire dictionary or a specific page into a nicely formatted text file which I decorate in a nice word-processor later on. More...
This is my
first album. It was inspired by reading Ontario Building Code Part 7,
when I was preparing to take the plumbing exam for the provincial
license. Besides other images it contains one nice picture and a
couple of pretty gross ones. The shapes were made with sPatch and
rendered in POV-Ray. The Ontario Building Code is not the most
exciting book in the world, and I don't use sPatch anymore. It's a
simple modeling program with limited capabilities. I discovered that
Blender is more powerful and efficient. But POV-Ray is the best. Also
I made a nice guide about POV textures and their syntax. It's
a great reference material for everyone who begins studying
POV-Ray.
Next album is coming soon.
