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• 13.01.10 Quintessence Virtual Prototypes

  

  During the course of 2009 i worked on the creation of virtual prototype photography/rendering for the new Erco Quintessence product line. The challenge was not only highest quality, but as well quantity: several hundred of distinct models had to be processed.

  The solution was based on a semi-automatic batch process controlled by Python and Maya. With the help of material mapping in

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• 17.12.09 Bones Revisited

  
  

  And the trees are growing and growing. Rendered with a small parametric program via RIB.

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• 08.10.09 RenderMan Procedurals

  

  All objects have been procedurally created at rendertime.

  It has been out there since 1988, but, shame on me, i did not really look into the RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec) until this year. And it looks like i missed something.

  There is a common misunderstanding that ‘RenderMan’ is the proprietary image generation software by Pixar,

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• 07.10.09 ERCO Light Perspectives Book

  Now it is here – the new ERCO Book!

  We worked on the architectural lighting illustrations for the publication over the last year, and we are really happy to finally see it coming to the stores. The first concept meeting was almost exactly 2 years from now, but there had a lot of concept work to be done before actual production could start.

  As always, the timeline was shorter in the end than in the beginning, so

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• 09.05.09 fmx/09 and the Clone Wars

  The fmx/09 in Suttgart positioned itself as Europe’s leading conference for Animation, 3D and VFX next to the nice Mundo Digitales in A Coruna, especially since 3D Festival in Copenhagen closed its doors a few years ago. For people primarily interested in the european side to CG, or for people with not enough time or ambition to travel to different continents to visit Siggraph, this is the place to look. And one should not think

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• 01.05.09 Birken – Animated Series

  Last year i started working on an side project called ‘Birken’. What is that?

  Birken is, to use a buzzword, a personal mashup of former projects, tests, snipplets, code, models, footage, objects, sculptures, atmospheres, stories and ideas, which never made it into daylight for the lack of resources and focus. Birken is something like a surreal testing site with a fair tick of humor, and, let me assure you, even if it does not may seems

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• 12.03.09 Modding 101 – The Plant

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• 01.03.09 Programming for Designers

  Over the recent years, the field of programming has interestingly opened up from being an exclusive specialist profession (’the programmer’) into becoming more an more a normal toolset for non-programming specialists. Be it biologists, aeronautic or insurance specialists, or as well – designers and artists.

  There are three major reasons for this development: a) the amount of raw data (databases, spreadsheets, texts, files, …) available to any profession is growing rapidly, especially with the web, so the number of ‘please, i don’t want to do this by hand all weekend!’-cases increased exponentially, b) completely new design possibilities brought by tools and different thinking, and c), so called High Level Languages have been developed in a growing manner. But what is that?

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• 04.02.09 Packing in JavaFX

  Here’s a tiny update on my programming steps – a brute force algorithm for circle packing done in JavaFX. I am aware there are much more sophisticated ways to pack circles, but this is more about playing with Java than about being elegant.

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• 09.12.08 More Automata

  My Automata are now working in 3D as well. Nice!

  

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