July 5, 2006 Wednesday Bio Class Begins [M:IK Rig]

IK Rig

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What does the Automatic IK Chain solver do in Blender?
Well, the easiest way to know what it does is to click
the button and find out. Here's a brief look at the open source
3D modeling application Blender on rig animation ghosting
and IK chain solving.

http://www.blender.org

10:50 AM
My review cycle will be monthly. Maybe I'll finally see
the diff in how much I do per month. It's a beginning isn't it?

Thought a lot as I walked home from class. And stood to watch
a workman tie a clamp to a giant pipe and have a big machine
move it over. I noted him measuring the pipe for center of mass
so that it could be swung easily. I enjoyed the show.

And a bike with a motor attached was cool too.

11:02 AM

It turns out that the Triangle Side Length deal is really
easy if you break it into 6 littler problems.

Percent Distance
Take your step size for example.
If you have to walk 1000 step distances it takes you a while.
If you step size was larger that same distance 'seems'
smaller.
So, if you happen to be like 10 micrometers long than
it's going to take a while to walk a meter.
Now, I'd say your percentage of the distance is quite small
and consequently the journey quite long.
But what if you grew as you moved?
Or not moved but grew?
How far are you from point B if you start at point A?
Do you get there sooner? If you grow and move?
So scale might matter right?
(ideas while walking across over pass)
"I don't think I could live with myself

if I got out of college and haven't taken

chemistry I and II"

7953 days
Do you know what that means to me?
It is the number of days I've been alive.
prob. much more precise than anything I could have figured before
since it came directly from python code.

4:49 PM
If I modeled my mathematical movies around the notion that the details
may get lost among the lay crowd but the central idea may be heard
than there might exist a kind of balance between to much and to little
information. 

For some reason, I've felt driven today. Since I arrived home from class
hours and hours ago I've been reading documentation and I think I just
might know how to write my own Blender plug in for the first time ever.
I already know the value of knowing this information. And I've learned
the skill of doc reading and code reading. One gets a lot further after
reading all the docs and understanding terminology especially to the
point where I can paraphrase. That's movie worthy stuff.

Besides, I haven't put many thoughts into this thing thus far.
In fact most things were far to gimmicky to be a good source of anything
someone would want to find. 

8:05 PM
I was trying to get textures from http://www.tellim.com/texture_cd.zip
but the download stopped after my computer's display went off.
mmmarrgh The bar doesn't even move anymore. I hate that.

9:53 PM
I'm always impressive with myself for having that spirit right around
9:30 where I'm like... MMm will this be the night I don't post a movie?
And than I whip something up from past footage. And I'm like whoa...
it's something alright.