I have made a number of small updates to the website over the past few days. Hopefully it looks a little better and loads faster. I’m also using a private GitHub repository now to organize and manage the site.
Author: Michael Horvath
Website updates
Updated orrery renders
I updated my solar system renders. They now use perspective projection, and are uploaded to Wikipedia in WebP format instead of GIF. Wikipedia and some Web browsers aren’t completely compatible with the WebP format yet however.
Colony ship update
I added a planetary background and made some minor tweaks to my colony ship model and scene. I guess I got lucky because I think it looks okay.
Exporting keyboard diagrams
In VGKD you can now export keyboard diagrams that you are working on prior to/instead of submitting them to me. The diagrams have been flattened to a single file to make downloading easier.
Interactive town map
I created a high resolution render of Datsville. You can find it here. It is about 40MB. I may upload an even higher resolution version to Flickr.
Edit: I updated the link since the page has moved.
Edit: the GitHub project is back online if you couldn’t get to it before.
Keyboard diagrams update
I’ve been messing around with the keyboard diagram code. I implemented a few new features:
- Multiple contributors can now be attached to a binding scheme, keyboard layout, or theme instead of just one
- You can now toggle the numeric keypad on or off
- I re-added the “SVG only” format
I did a lot of code cleanup too.
Email
Sorry, the captcha on my email page stopped working. I fixed the issue, and you should now be able to contact me again using that form.
Keyboard diagrams and file host
Over the last month or so I have been updating the keyboard binding diagrams. You now select the type of keyboard before selecting the style or game. I also combed through the CSS stylesheets, looking for and fixing errors. I also tweaked the dimensions of each keyboard to better match the most common physical keyboard layouts. See the log for more information.
Also, today I uploaded all my files to pCloud and edited all the links on this site to point to there instead of to MediaFire. I’m not going to delete the files from MediaFire, but eventually the files will get removed automatically by the company and the links will go dead.
Registration
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Moving materials off-site
I have spent the last few weeks moving most of my geometry activities from this site to the online collection at the GeoGebra website. I plan to do the same for my LDraw models, either at Brickshelf, MOCpages or Rebrickable. I’ve also written a new tutorial for the POV-Ray wiki, and created a new solar system scene for the POV-Ray Object Collection and Wikipedia.