June 28th, 2007
An experiment I started all the way back when I was on holiday in Florida during my easter ‘break’ from i-dat (where I managed to complete both my idat203 project and do all the JSP coding for the final soft221 project), and forgot about/didn’t have time to fully explore until now.
I’d seen something like this done before but cannot remember where. It is an interesting use of a panoramic shot to say the least.
June 17th, 2007
Now that my PC isn’t critical to my activities, I decided to give Windows Vista a go. I started off by buying a simple new SATA harddisk, which should have been exceptionally easy to install until I discovered that it came supplied with the disk and an engrish manual/2-by-4 sheet of paper with nonsense-instructions printed, and absolutely nothing else. Because I have SATA cables and jumper pins growing in magical pots ten to the dozen here it was fine…
Actually what this really meant was I had to go on an unnecessary search for these things but eventually all was fine and I had a third HDD within my PC. I attempted to install Vista on the new disk while disconnecting the old ones so as to preserve my XP setup but something in the BIOS didn’t like this, and it ended up not detecting the SATA drive.
June 8th, 2007
Following a visit to the royal cornwall show, we have picked up a pair of doves to occupy the dovecote. However one escaped after a few days so we have improved the enclosure and found three more to join the original.
June 6th, 2007
So I’ve got a Home, Journal and About page all reasonably the same style so now its time to tackle the portfolio area.
Hmmm, so. Two year’s worth of i-Dat coursework and a complete mess of folders/urls online. And as well as that, I never really got around to arranging some of my artwork into a decent section of its own which I always wanted. Therefore I went about unearthing old sketchbooks and the likes and took a few photos to edit to size.
On another note I have become more and more appreciative of the pen tool in Flash. Originally my flash pieces would be based on the theory that if actionscript couldn’t animate it, then I’d import my graphics as raw photoshop PSD files. But vector stuff is simply more cool.
Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
