floating lights

Jan 08, 2009

2009-01-08T22:38:00.004-06:00

Continue working on the mushroom house, today I added the stairs.

Another light source was placed right above the stairs to make it better for viewing.

Next step will be opening up a window and a door, after which i plan to put in some tables, chairs, maybe a bed, bookshelf etc. Really I have no idea what should be put inside, and how do Smurfs live in houses like this one is totally beyond me. They definitely have much better houses.

Anyway, it is really hard to create objects with irregular shapes. And how to make realistic textures is outside my reach at this moment.

Jan 07, 2009

2009-01-07T21:02:00.003-06:00

Rendering a scene might take very long. So using simple objects is a good habit.

The first image I used torus to build the wall and roof of the mushroom house, thus it took more than 3 mins to render a 640*480 size image; the second one I used difference { cone1, cone2} to build the same (almost same) house, while this time it took only about 15 secs.

In the beginning

2009-01-06T18:17:00.006-06:00

I decided to pick up POV-Ray as my new hobby.

Buildings seem to be generally suitable for modeling, maybe I'll start from here.

In the past, I have done some modeling using POV-Ray for lab instruments, and for illustrating some terminologies in my field, but of course they are relatively easy, and POV-Ray works really well on making animations for this purpose.

foto

2008-04-19T09:25:00.001-05:00

snow

2008-03-17T21:22:00.005-05:00

Sky

2008-01-06T18:02:00.000-06:00

Herb

2007-05-03T09:28:00.000-05:00

hyfs寒鴉赴水圖

2007-03-11T21:04:00.000-05:00

寒鴉赴水圖局部

寒鴉赴水圖局部

寒鴉赴水圖局部

寒鴉赴水圖局部

snowing day

2007-02-26T23:07:00.000-06:00

about Mississippi River

2007-02-17T14:06:00.000-06:00

state bird of Minnesota

people in the winter

2007-02-17T13:45:00.000-06:00

not even half as pretty as reality

winter afternoon

2007-02-17T10:55:00.000-06:00

country road

lonely swing in the winter afternoon

Squirrel around

2007-02-16T22:47:00.000-06:00

nothing to worry about

born to run

Saturday afternoon, when the sun 's shining

zt

2006-12-23T19:52:00.000-06:00

今天晚饭后跑去理发，其间理发师傅和我闲聊：“啥时期末考试”之类的话题，偶说偶是小硕二年级不用考试了。师傅诧异的问我：那研究生都干些啥。我说“跟着老板读书读论文、写论文，自己给自己找事做。”师傅愣了一会认真地问我：“那不就是混日子吗？”偶当即吐血而死.........

vividly describe the situation in physics department UMN, we do nothing but 混日子, and to make things worse, many faculties seems to be happy with this.

before rain falls

2006-06-03T18:24:00.000-05:00

color of the fall

2006-04-29T00:02:00.000-05:00

afternoon

2006-04-29T00:01:00.000-05:00

sunset

2006-04-28T23:58:00.000-05:00

people

2006-04-25T00:13:00.000-05:00

all about leaves

2006-04-25T00:09:00.000-05:00

from the web

2006-03-20T21:36:00.000-06:00

孩子你知不知道外在的雄心终有一天会耗尽，
要想一直笔挺快乐地站立，一定要使她在里面植根，
让她像泉水一样从心里面长长久久地涌出来，
这样的雄心不想把谁比下去更不想伤害谁，只求自己一天比一天美丽，
一天比一天更讨自己的欢心，这样你的幸福就有底了，
这样你就不需要战斗的盔甲或是颐指气使的面孔来维持自己脆弱的自信。

night trees

2006-02-26T21:38:00.000-06:00

夜景，UMN

2006-02-26T01:40:00.000-06:00

sky

2006-02-26T00:53:00.000-06:00

回忆--引子

2006-01-29T00:56:00.000-06:00

而回忆往往从“如果”开始
----《江南此间的少年》

常常觉得回忆过去是衰老的象征，当然，现在依旧这么认为；
然而还是不可避免的试图留下一些对过去的描述，也许，
我也不年轻了吧。

如果2001年的7月某一天，我没有再市4中学的某一间教室里
突然毫无理由的大脑短路，在2min内重写了一道题目，也许
我不会拥有现在的回忆，在复旦的日子。

记得曾经和一堆朋友们一起挤在本部4号楼214号寝室看当时
颇为流行的一部学生dv，貌似叫《我的黄金时代》，描述大学
时代的爱情故事，当时很是诧异，为什么这样的日子会是
我们的黄金时代呢？

高中时候读过的小说现在依然很清晰：
...这是我的黄金时代，我想吃，想爱，还想在
一瞬间变成天上半明半暗的云...
虽然没有什么概念，但是我一直认为，所谓的黄金时代，
应该是这个样子的吧？

。。。。。。

话说

2006-01-22T19:50:00.000-06:00

“更重要的是他们已然拥有了自己的原则和信条，那就是“怀疑”，是说出“我不相信！”的勇气和能力”

怀疑也是可以作为信条的阿，那么也可以作为宗教吧？

yculblog

2006-01-21T18:36:00.000-06:00

前一阵子出了一次问题，结果一些文章内容丢失。

就像原来的硬盘一样，也好。
个么就88吧，用了2年的小小blog~

色彩

2006-01-04T10:51:00.000-06:00

色彩本身就可以成为影像存在的理由，
不需要其他的种种。

今天在网上搜索桌面时的映像。