I updated my solar system renders. They now use perspective projection, and are uploaded to Wikipedia in WebP format instead of GIF. The MediaWiki thumbnail generator and some Web browsers don’t fully understand the WebP format yet, however.
I added a planetary background and made some minor tweaks to my colony ship model/scene. I think I got lucky because it looks okay.
Per a user request on GitHub, in VGKD you can now export any of the keyboard diagrams that you are currently working on prior to/instead of submitting them to the project. The diagrams have been flattened to a single file instead of multiple files in order to make downloading and organizing them easier.
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If you know where to look, you can now also save/load a JSON file containing all your keys.
I created a high resolution render of Datsville that you can “tour” and interact with. You can find it here. The images total to around 40MiB. I may upload an even higher resolution render to Flickr.
Edit: the GitHub project is back online and I updated the link if you couldn’t get to it before.
I’ve been messing around with the keyboard diagram code. I implemented a few new features:
I did a lot of code cleanup too.
Sorry, the captcha on my email page stopped working. I fixed the issue, and you should now be able to contact me again using this form.
Edit: Thanks to Paul Hoff for notifying me.
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.
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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.
I have been busy creating illustrations for Wikipedia. They can be seen on my user page at Wikimedia Commons. Most of them involve the spherical or elliptical coordinate systems somehow.
I also created a series of sectional drawings comparing the internal geometries of the various “Color Spheres” of (from left to right) Johannes Itten, Albert H. Munsell, and Philipp Otto Runge; as well as a fourth sphere created for comparison based on the spherical coordinate system. It is amazing how many ways there are to draw a sphere!
And I updated a couple of existing images that show how the color-making attribute saturation can be determined from the chroma and value parameters of the Munsell Color System. (Though this definition of saturation is a bit different than the one used in the HSL color space I am accustomed to.)
Lastly, I finished an old scene featuring my interpretation of Larry Niven’s Ringworld. It is a giant ring encircling a far away sun, with oceans, continents and Earth-like weather embedded into it. Here’s the latest render:
The source code for these images can be found in my new GitHub repository which I just created for this purpose.
