Rabidgremlin’s Soapbox

Fantastic chart showing what the last 12 US presidents did in their first 100 days in office:

This is pretty cool. For the last 3 years I’ve been working as the architect with the Innovations and Ventures department at Air New Zealand.
Yesterday we found out that three of our projects are finalists in the TUANZ Business Internet Awards for 2007 !
The projects are:
Grabaseat (Advertising & Marketing category)
For those of you who [...]

Here is a quick vid I put together covering some of the neat things I saw at SIGGRAPH. Did it for a couple of presentations at work. Figured you all might like to see it…

Its very cool. Check out http://travelgremlins.blogspot.com/

Just uploaded my first video clip on YouTube !
Its a bunch of 360 degree pans of European cities that we took on our recent trip. Because of the fast pace of change the compression really messes up the video :(
The actual footage looks very much better….

Found these excellent texture maps (colour, bump, specular etc) of earth, moon, mars and venus. Very nice quality and free to use. Check out http://www.oera.net/How2/TextureMaps.htm.
Gonna have to do a space scene just for fun :)

Found this great plug in for Photoshop that lets you open and save Windows Icon files (.ico). It’s from Telegraphics and can be found here along with a bunch of other plug ins.
If you don’t have access to Photoshop then try out GIMP and get the ICO plug in for it from whoop.org.
These tools are [...]