Month: November 2005

  • Jack in the Box

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    Yeah, busy packing up today.

  • Goodbye, train

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    Wow – today might be the last time I commute to work by train. We’re supposed to move house on Friday, & for the rest of the week I’ll either be at home packing or driving between Cardiff & Swansea transporting things. It feels a little strange to think about losing a defining part of…

  • SAND – Motion Capture

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    Real-time animation from motion capture. I want one! It would be great in the Anatomy Lab.

  • Swansea University Best For Student Experience

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    Wow – The University of Wales Swansea (my university) has just been voted top for student experience in the Times Higher Education Supplement. I think that’s 1st place out of 170 institutions. Blimey, those students just love it here.

  • SAND Day 3

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    Ha. At the science animation day yesterday the Taliesin auditorium had only a few dozen people for the later presentations. Today, a guy from EA Games is talking & I can barely get a seat. EA are moving toward the next generation of gaming by pulling in animators from Disney & ILM. Eamon Butler, a…

  • Menopause + Technology = Pain

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    I propose that women of that mid-life age and beyond shouldn’t be allowed near computer-based machines until properly trained. It’s far quicker for them & everyone around them if they go and speak to a real person. Yes, really. We should put notices up or something. As usual this morning I arrived at the train…

  • SAND

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    Today’s part of the SAND conference (Swansea Animation Days) was concerned with animation & science, & mostly 3D animation. Hey, look how we can use Doom for some serious training applications! In fact these days the Farcry, Half-Life 2 & Unreal engines are used, with Farcry’s world modeller being the simplest to work with. An…

  • Cracked

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    Oh, the joys of water cooling your PC. I’ve developed a crack in the GPU cooler, slowly leaking coolant & sealant. Arse.