New Feeds
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 10.11.06Amid cries of distress that my RSS feed was broken, I decided to finish my Feedburner setup. You’ll notice the RSS and Atom links towards the bottom of the right hand page navigation have been replaced with a single smart link; not only will it work in any reader (RSS, Atom, My Yahoo, etc.), but when loaded in an incompatible browser, you can still see the feed in HTML form.
More specific feeds will be added to the list as I start to publish tutorials (coming soon) or podcasts (coming not so soon), allowing readers to subscribe only to the parts they want.
If you’ve subscribed before, please change your subscription to this new link. Thanks! While I can’t make promises, it should be more or less permanent, and will be able to migrate through whatever hosting changes I make.
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Pathologically Stupid
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 9.11.06Phrase used to describe either a singular human or group of persons that embody every terrifying propensity towards the dangerously moronic. Taking the phrase literally, there there is also infered danger that these persons are highly contagious; such profound depths of mental vacuity will actually cause those around them to become less intelligent. Communicating with such people often poses problems as even basic language constructs pose road blocks on the path to… well…
“It’s like being drunk, except not as fun.” – Elihu Ihms
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Crash!
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 7.11.06I’m generally pretty good at abusing equipment (just intellectual abuse, not physically beating my computer), and I’ve certainly edited my fair share of massive photos. Yet somehow this hasn’t come up before…
(the image is a colour texture map of Rodinia, postulated to have been the super continent to precede Pangea, and the current star of a video I’m working on)
I double checked, and sure enough… the file I’d been working on (with such grievously slow processing speeds) had passed 1.75Gb of saved file space, before I’d started editing. Thankfully flattening part of it seemed to help and I was able to save it. Since I had a few original layers in another file, no edibility was really lost. Talking with Ben Wolken, this is an issue with Photoshop CS1 and previous; in CS2 the “large file format” was introduced.
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Comments are back online
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 5.11.06Thanks for your patience (all two readers who aren’t commenting anyway)! It should be working nicely now. I’ve reverted to a previous commenting setup and added a few security features. Things should be running fine.
papa john! don’t be ridiculous… just because i don’t comment doesn’t mean i don’t read your blog. i love to know how my dear cousin is doing!
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Commenting disabled
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 5.11.06Due to some recent spamming, I’ve temporarily taken comments offline. It shouldn’t be for too long, but I’ll have to figure out how to deal with the situation. Thank you for your patience, and my apologies to anyone that might have stumbled across any untoward posts.
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Mosaic
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 2.11.06I’ve been working recently on a project that needed a mosaic. I tried using Photoshop’s mosaic filter, which was absolutely horrific. It can pixelate an image into geometric blobs, but certainly nothing close to the beauty of tiny little squares arraigned along the curves and lines of a picture.
Other options were sought for, but not found. And so, it was drawn by hand. Black ink to surround the black tiles, red ink for everything else (since the red channel can be used in Photoshop to derive just the black, and the difference to get everything else). I developed a dent on my ring finger (now a nice little callus), not to mention plenty of cramps and pains. Probably due to poor pen holding habits; I just don’t do this often enough!
The result doesn’t seem too bad. Not terribly photoreal, but the project style is supposed to be illustrative. A lot of tweaking and texturing to do before it’s really finished, but this is what it looks like so far.
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It's official
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 29.10.06This monday I will be working for the Museum Art department, primarily doing 3D animations to be used in display videos, though a few printed pieces will likely be needed as well.
I had thought my new position would be temporary, but it seems it may be a little longer term than I first expected. The computer, equipment, and programs are all being transfered to the new department, and I’ll probably be working there at least till the museum opens.
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Plugin fixed
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 29.10.06Eli Ihms edited the PHP code and got it working flawlessly. Hopefully I can start using it shortly! Give me a day or two, once I have the time I’ll upload a few photos and try it all out.
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Testing errors
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 26.10.06My apologies to the two unlucky visitors that stopped by the blog recently. I’ve been working on an image gallery plugin for TextPattern and the site has been up and down all evening. I should have been testing in a separate TextPattern install, but haven’t set one up yet.
The good news is that the PHP part is working great, the bad news is the “echo” command can’t work inside a TextPattern plugin, and the “return” command won’t work with repeated code (since it halts all computations). I’ve tried all sorts of ways to get the recursive code to write before being returned, but to no avail.
If you happen to be a PHP genius, know of one, or can merely solve this simple problem, please let me know… thanks.
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I think I'm sick
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 20.10.06After having been asked how often I usually get sick earlier this year, I suppose I’ve paid more attention. There have been a few close calls, but nothing major enough that I needed to skip work. But I fear I’m getting close. If anything, I may have to still go to work, but skip my plans for this weekend. No use exposing friends in Ohio and setting my own health back a week.
And Jolie, if you read this, I’m sorry. Hopefully I won’t have to miss your wedding!
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Hi! Now you have another reader AND commenter.