Category: ig
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2021 coasters
These coasters were good fun. They were designed in 2021, and I still use at least one every day to put my coffee mug on.
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More with prisms 2024
Here are a few more renders of glass. The glass material shows a colour spectrum attempting to mimic a prism. Unfortunately there is a quirk.
For each of the rainbow colours that we normally associate with a prism colour dispersion (red, orange, yellow, green, cyane, blue, and violet), I had to use a separate IOR (Index of Refraction). The problem is that a natural colour spectrum is continuous, rather than made of a set of seven colours, so it looks a bit different to what would normally be expected. The resulting effect is a bit hyperreal, but still fun.
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Prism 2024 print
I had a go at printing Prism 2024, and I’m happy with the results.
The image was rendered as A1 300dpi (9933 × 7016 pixels, 69.689928 Megapixel).
It was printed as Print+Frame Deluxe (Canvas textured interchangeable print with frame) via posterfactory.com.au .
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Node City Sunset
I found this city scape that I designed earlier in 2023. It just needed a bit of work to set the mood and be able to get some decent images rendered.
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Node Ribbons
Over the New Year break, I experimented with geometry node spirals and sound design.
The video loop was rendered in Blender EEVEE. The sound track was designed in Ardour, and probably a spagetti of connections with ZynAddSubFX via Patchance which does not save well in its entirety so I’m not that sure since the time when I worked on it.
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Swirly things
I had another go at glass and caustics. In my mind I imaged that Blender Cycles can do a glass prism effect without any special workarounds, with the current version of 2.8. Wrong. On the upside, I walked away with some fun renders.
Edit 2024.01.15
Later I had another go, with simple prim shapes and more colour components. It still looks like a mixed bag as far as real-ish-ness. The big workaround was mixing six glass materials, each with a different colour and refractive index, into one.
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Pill box for nozzles
Organising printer nozzles starts simple, but then after a few reorders you tend to loose track of what you are stocked up on and what you’re out of. The trick is being able to see it all in one place. This tidy pill box should help.
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Remastering
Every now and then we revisit old work and add something new to it. In this instance, I started to remaster material originally designed in 2017. Intersections was a series of vector based black and white line art. It features repeating line patterns with slight variations, that when overlapped, causes a larger pattern to emerge.
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Flash grid
A flash grid is a simple light modifier that limits the direction of the light. The effect that it produces is similar to a snoot modifier and a vignette filter.
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Hex bit holders
The problem that I had was an ever growing collection of hex bits. The solution was to design a simple array to hold them all together.
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A case for dresden glasses
Dresden eyewear is one of my favourite solutions. The gist is that they come in a choice of colours in one standard shape, are relatively affordable to everyone, and look cool.
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Honeycomb shelf
Custom shelves are excellent because they are a perfect fit for what they were designed to hold.
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Nodes and Rays
Blender geometry nodes make generating arrays of objects relatively quick. Compositing nodes add that extra wow to the whole scene. Applying both make generating colourful video clips a breeze.
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Phone stand v2
This phone stand design started in 2019. The early version looked like an extrusion that may have been cut into lengths. Now in 2022, I noticed that there was a slight problem with printing this item consistently with an assortment of materials — at this point I was interesting in producing multiple colours.
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Strands into the void
What can you say about psychedelic looking convergent lines? If you tweak the light sources, material reflectivity, and perspective then you will get something like this. Strands into the void, or out of the void, whichever you prefer.
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Bottles and curves
Fast moving consumer goods such as beverages are commonly packaged in bottles. Showing a bottle that represents a product is fundamental to promoting and selling such products. There’s no mystery there. But where do those perfect and stylised images come from?
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My door is ajar
I have a problem with a door, and it is my door.
Specifically, my office door bores me, and so I decided to decorate it with something eye catching. I logged into Officeworks and ordered a customised print of Intersections2. The dimensions of the print are close enough to cover most of the door surface.
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