You’re looking at a little experiment tonight with fluid dynamics in Blender. I had an idea to use the fluid dynamics in the new version of Blender to simulate the grungy paint splashes that are the staple of many modern vector art styles. The premise was, if Blender will let me simulate throwing a bunch of fluid at a wall, it will hopefully come out looking pretty neat. This technique eventually gave some results, but turned out to be both time-consuming and cpu-consuming. Unfortunately, the computation required to achieve the level of splash detail I desired proved difficult to manage. The image above is one of the most balanced and detailed images I got, and yet is still very simplistic and lacks the fineness that makes the style appealing to the eye.
I hope that with some more tuning I might be able to achieve flattened results with the detail of these examples . For now however, it seems that the fastest, easiest, and most beautiful method is also the most simple...
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Painted OverFrom: chromakode.com
Post Date: 2006-06-20 00:24:29
Yesterday, I discovered that the graffiti I found about a month ago has been painted over. Frankly I’m not surprised, but it’s hard to understand how people can take such unique art and slap a dull brown paint over it. It wasn’t even out in the open — you had to look to find it. How much culture and honest self-expression is lost to this “cleaning?”
That image was one of the most personal and raw statements I’ve seen for quite some time, ...
more RememberanceFrom: chromakode.com
Post Date: 2006-06-17 00:36:49
Today marks the day upon which my beloved childhood pet Mazel passed away. Tonight is the night a year ago that I stayed with her as she died. Tonight is a night of ghosts, of memories, of reaching back to a time that feels so close and yet so far away. I remember sitting with her, that sleepless night, resting on the floor to try to be nearer to her. I remember stroking her body outsite my room, trying to calm her breathing. It’s ironic but fitting that because of company tonight I shall...
more Majority RulesFrom: chromakode.com
Post Date: 2006-06-15 00:29:18
Firefox
75.6 %
Safari
9.7 %
MS Internet Explorer
5.8 %
Sorry to those 5.8% (!) who are using IE, things will be looking pretty ugly here from here on out since your browser does not know how to display standards-compliant web pages properly…
For the other 94.2% of you out there, I think your taste in web browsers is damn cool.
http://browsershots.org/website/1152960/
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