Today I practiced more drifting! I’m finding that there’s a perfect angle for each turn and it’s just a matter of keeping the balance. PS – I keep accidentally glitching images:
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Learning to Drift in Forza
Today I have something a bit different: learning how to drift in Forza Horizon 4. This seemed like a fun post to write, so here it is! Background: I love car driving games and my favorite thing to do in them is to drift. Although, I have a confession: I don’t really know how to…
No Search Engines for a Day
Yesterday I planned to not use any search engines today, but it didn’t go as planned; I haven’t been online until now. Kind of hard to make observations about using the internet without search engines if you aren’t even online. Here’s the observations I can make: Last night I watched a youtube video about Eizouken…
How Do Search Engines Work?
Today I did some research on search engines after I noticed that some of my pages aren’t listed on Google.
Learning Voxatron, #2
I’m encountering some friction with learning Voxatron. Here are the issues:
Learning Voxatron, #1
I’ve started learning how to make games in Voxatron! I couldn’t find any recent tutorials, so I’ve just been reading the manual. I found a fix for the fullscreen window being off-center: “xdotool search –name voxatron windowmove %1 0 0” It looks so much better in fullscreen! I still don’t know how to record full…
Toki Pona, #1
I started learning Toki Pona about three weeks ago and I’ve memorized almost all 137 core words. It’s definitely possible to memorize them faster, I’ve just been working on Toki Pona along with my other projects. Some background about the language: Toki Pona is a constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001 with a…
Voxatron First Impressions
Today I got Voxatron! It’s a fantasy console like PICO-8, and also from Lexaloffle, but in 3D. I didn’t initially buy Voxatron along with PICO-8 because it didn’t look like my cup of tea, but recently some tweets by zep convinced me otherwise, and I thought I’d write my first impressions. On first launch, I…
POV-Ray, #2
Today I made a donut in POV-Ray! I’d like to add sprinkles, but I’m not sure how to position them. Maybe I could use a for-loop with some randomness to make their placement look natural.
POV-Ray, #1
I recently discovered POV-Ray, a 3D path-traced renderer which uses only text to describe 3D scenes, which I find fascinating. I’ve just started with it and it’s already a lot of fun. I love the retro look of the images it produces.
Reading Beowulf, #2
Today I finished reading Beowulf and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it would take me much longer to read. I noticed more similarities to Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit, specifically. Just before Beowulf’s fight with the dragon, an unnamed character discovers the dragon’s treasure hoard by a secret passage and takes a goblet.…
Reading Beowulf, #1
A quick introduction: I’m reading Beowulf because it’s mentioned in English Literature by William J. Long (1945) and I was inspired to read it. I’m reading the English translation by Seamus Heaney, because I can’t read Anglo-Saxon. I’m about halfway through and I’m really enjoying it. I love how it’s so extra at times, like…
Upcoming Projects (what’s next)
I’ve recently done several long-running series (Learning C, 30 Days of Watercolor, PICO-8 Text Editor) and I think it would be fun to do a variety of things next. Things on the menu so far: POV-Ray, Toki Pona, and Beowulf.POV-Ray is a 3D rendering program I found yesterday, Toki Pona is a constructed language I…
Review of “3D Graphics Programming from Scratch” (Pikuma.com)
Here’s my review of 3D Graphics Programming from Scratch by Gustavo Pezzi. TL;DR: It’s amazing 11/10, just buy it already. I can confirm the other positive reviews are all true. So in this review I’ll focus on things the other reviewers haven’t already said. Cue the montage! How I started: And here’s some things I’ve…
Pineapple Skroob (Meme)
Pineapple skroob! Rendered in my 3D renderer. Credits/sources used: Original meme “it need skroob” by u/freesurrealestate. Pineapple by grafi, licensed under CC-BY. Robot hand by SeanNicolas, licensed under CC-BY. I made the scrub brush, download (CC0). This meme took a while because I had to rig the hand, pare down its face count, add shading…
Procedural Stars in Blender
Earlier today I was working on a photoshop commission for a friend and I needed stars, but couldn’t find an image I liked. Enter procedural stars. They’re great because you can get exactly the stars and sky you want. The shader I made today isn’t photo realistic, but it could definitely be expanded. Here’s an…
Recipe for an Epic Sandwich
This recipe makes one classic sandwich, although it can be adapted to triple decker or standwich. Ingredients 2+ slices of ham or turkey lunch meat 2+ slices of mid-sourdough bread 2+ slices of colby jack or smoked gouda cheese 2 tbs butter 1 egg Aldi Everything Bagel Seasoning (not totally essential, but it does elevate…