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22nd Jun2011
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21st Jun2011
New Petfactory Site – and some other thoughts
We did a redesign of our company site www.petfactory.se a few weeks back. I usually don´t like when people claim with a strong voice and total certainty that some technology is doomed. I doubt certainty. But I really like my iPhone and my iPad and to use flash for a site seems too excluding to be a good idea. So our new site is made up of php, xml regular old html and some ducktape. I really like the result. I wanted a site that would work in a browser but more important would give the user a nice mobile experience. That to me means trying to avoid small buttons to click and a tall vertical scrolling site. My first idea was actually to use wordpress as a cms for the site, and we started to write a theme, but then we realized ( thanks to our coder johno :) ) that it would be simpler to just code a small php, xml solution. I will look into some cms solutions, but that will have to wait.
Web aside, I still like as3, and enjoy using it for interactive graphics. I have tried processing, although it was some time ago, but it was no way near as powerful as as3. I am a big fan of Lee Brimelow and follow his blog www.gotoandlearn.com with great interest. The most interesting thing with as3 is the performance increase in iOS devices and the integration of 3d engines.
20th Jun2011
Pymel
My next project after I have had a deeper look at Nuke will be to get profficient with Pymel. Pymel is a python wrapper designed by Luma pictures and is ment to make Python scripting in maya faster, more intuitive and pythonic. Totally nerdy but I just love this sentence from the Pymel docs: “Object oriented programming isn’t necessarily about brevity, it’s about legibility derived from structure”
As a side note this is the first post I have written using the wordpress app for iPad. I must say that it works really good. Take care !
07th Jun2011
Nuke – Random tips
To use exposure values (EV) instead of absolute apperture numbers set the center f-stop parameter to 0 in the viewer setting.
A multiplication of 1 is the same as an exposure of 0 with the exposure node. The multiplication node simply multiplicates the image by the value in a linear fashion. An increase of the exposure with 1 exposure will double the light. This means that an increase of exposure by 1 means that twice as much light is introduced. To get the same effect with multiply node we need to multiplicate with 2 to get the same effect. The increase of exposure is with other words quadratic.
To toggle between viwer inputs hit the up/down keyboard arrow.
To step 1 keframe back/forth use right/left arrow. use modifier key shift to step 10 frames. the alt key to go end/beginning.