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V5I: Eco To CSV / CSV to Eco
Monday, July 3rd, 2006Two free Python script for Vue 5 Infinite tonight. ecotocsv.py saves a selected EcoSystem as a CSV file that can be edited in most spreadsheet packages. The other, csvtoeco.py, loads the edited csv file back into Vue modifying the instances with any changes you made in the CSV. Download: ecocsv.zip (3Kbyte Zip Archive)
Silly Past Lives Thingy
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006I know this is silly and random too and I don’t personally believe in reincarnation but fun all the same and I’ve been using it to come up with character for a short story. Update: This was no longer working so I’ve pulled it
Thank You For Smoking Part 2
Saturday, July 1st, 2006Went to see Thank You For Smoking with some friends last night. I don’t make a habbit of seeing films a second time at the cinema but this one I was happy to. One thing we noticed I missed the first time – I can’t think of one time in the film you see someone […]
V5I: Bifurcated Lava Flow
Thursday, June 29th, 2006An updated version of this article is now available on my website at Creating a Bifurcated Lava Flow in Vue Infinite. After more experimentation I’ve finally achieved a Bifurcated Lava Flow in Vue 5 Infinite that I’m happy with. To make this I first looked at some maps of Bifurcated flows. I then drew a […]
V5I: EcoSystem to Objects Python Script
Thursday, June 29th, 2006A little python script that will place a cube at the same location as each instance in an EcoSystem. It gives each cube the same rotation as the instance. It also scales it by the same scale factor in each direction as the instance. There is an additional parameter to allow the scaling to be […]
A Novel Experience
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006After a hiatous of several months I opened my half finished novel and started to tackle the scene I got stuck on. I hit a continuity error that I didn’t really want to fix in the first draft but didn’t think I could afford to leave unfixed either. It is now fixed so I can […]
Vue Python for Beginners Updated
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006I’ve spent the evening updating my Vue Python for Beginners tutorial. What started as a few minor tweaks turned into a major reorganisation but hopefully it was worth the effort.
Thank You For Smoking
Saturday, June 24th, 2006Went to see "Thank You For Smoking" last night and really enjoyed it. An excellent satire about spin, PR and media manipulation. Smoking is more of a McGuffin to hang the story on than an issue the film explored. To go into it in any detail would risk spoiling it so I won’t. The acting […]
Google Sitemapped
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006I’ve added a Google Sitemap XML file to my site today. While my site is still small I want to add a more conventional sitemap for visitors and related links navigation in the navigation bar too. I’m trying to settle on a search solution to add as well. Overkill for a small site but why […]
New Pages
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Even with a two hour interuption for football I’ve added two new pages to the impworks site tonight: one for VueDynamics and a contact form on the contacts page. Despite my best efforts in the limited remaining time tonight I have yet to succeed in Bifurcating my virtual lava flow.