Archive for the ‘open source’ Category

Presentation for MNSWF Code Camp: Intro to Papervision3d

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I'm pleased to announce a small collection of Papervision3D 2.0 demos and sources. You may access these by using subversion to check out the following repository. svn checkout http://modern-carpentry.com/svn/pv3d Please note that you must also be using the effects branch of Papervision3D 2.0, and to compile these files you must change the build ...

Short Circuits 2: a celebration of Richard Stallman’s birthday

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I helped organize a fun event for yesterday.  You can get more specific information about it here  (when we finish editing the wiki about the event...) Or you can just enjoy my recap of the event below: who is richard stallman? -bio Stallman was born to Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman in 1953 in ...

F1 Web challenge, TCOpenCircuit, and Doorstep Healthcare Services

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I've just woken up from a crazy weekend at the f1 web challenge, hosted by sierra bravo. Thanks to all the sponsors, my awesome team from twin cities open circuit, and Shira from Doorstep Healthcare Services. Also thanks to Kai from Sunday's Energy for agreeing to host the site ...

WOW 3D Physics engine released!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Jerome Birembaut released his long awaited 3d physics engine, properly named "WOW". Wow uses the Sandy 3d library to do the mathematical calculations for the objects, and I must say it runs pretty smoothly. Team Wow up with the flash 3d library of your choice(mine is PV3D, of course) ...

Invitation to DRUPAL DAY

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Enough talk, back to the fun stuff: I am very pleased to extend an invitation to the first annual Drupal Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It will be held from 10:00am to 5:00pm, and will be a good place to start learning Drupal if you haven't. If you ...

online identity and me, our community

Monday, January 7th, 2008

there's been some interesting things popping up as of late regarding the issues of identity in an online world ( a supposedly fake one), and this lil journal to myself is just a reflection upon what I've been thinking about in the past couple of days regarding it. To be a ...

Open and Close a box in Papervision3D 2.0

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Here is a quick example of contructing a cube using Planes instead of the Cube primitive in Papervision3D. Click the picture to view the opening and shutting cube. -Once the cube is open, click the bottom of the inside in order to close it again. This technique makes it possible to ...

season’s greetings from modern carpentry

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Click on a picture and enjoy! check out the snow

Internal: Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I have recently been working on creating flash websites that are running off of a Drupal CMS. This approach to bringing content into flash is pretty slick for a couple of reasons: it provides the maintainer of a website a user friendly way to put content into their website with ...

Loading Collada files (.dae) into Papervision3d 2.0 GreatWhite

Friday, December 7th, 2007

For anyone interested in learning how to load .dae (collada) files into Papervision3D 2.0, this is your lucky day! A collada file is an open source version of your regular 3d file, whether it be created in 3dStudio Max, Maya, Blender, SketchUp, etc. It is essentially an XML file that ...