Category Archives: Shameless Self-Promotion

Pratt & Whitney Engine

Posted on May 18, 2011 by thedude

Another Thea Render from a freely downloaded SketchUp model. Wow!

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Mo’ Rendering

Posted on May 18, 2011 by thedude

I’m having so much fun learning SketchUp and Thea Render!

Looking for excuses to create 3D objects, I decided to create a model of the public areas in our building. This could come in very handy, as we are currently working with a designer on updating the 80′s design. This is our building’s lobby with new colors applied.

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The Personal Genome Machine 360 View

Posted on April 25, 2011 by thedude

Swipe your mouse left and right for a 360 view.

This 3D Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine was rendered using TheaRender from a .3DS file exported from the original SolidWorks file. Raw PNG images batch resized with Irfanview, combined using a custom python script, (Thanks, Josh!) compressed into JPEG format with Photoshop and “animated” with the fabulous jQuery Reel plugin. Piece o’ cake!

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An Exciting New Direction

Posted on May 21, 2010 by thedude

After ten great years at Affymetrix, thedude is moving on to what will hopefully prove to be greener pastures.

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Eyelid Surgery Before and After

Posted on May 10, 2010 by thedude

Lately, some of you have been asking about my eyes. You will recall that I had the surgery strictly to correct my vision problem, NOT for cosmetic reasons, and by that measure, the surgery was 100% successful. My vision is better than it has been for years!

Roll over image to see the results of my surgery.

If that weren’t enough, a happy side-effect of the corrective surgery is that my new eyelids make me look at least 5 years younger. You may have to look closely, but I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to see the difference.

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Wolstenholme Fjord, Greenland

Posted on March 27, 2010 by thedude

My latest scanning project keeps turning up gems. I am so glad I shot this panorama of Wolstenholme Fjord — purportedly the only place on earth where three active glaciers join together. If I could have anticipated today’s technology, I might have made a much more detailed shot than this one – consisting of just two images shot with my trusty Pentax ME Super on grainy Plus-X way back in 1986.

I did a Google search, and I could not find any other photograph that shows all three of these glaciers in a single shot. Yay me!

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The Golden State Turns Green

Posted on March 7, 2010 by thedude

It’s Windows wallpaper season in California. And that’s no bull.

For those who don’t know, most of California looks more like this most of the year.

You may be interested in learning more about the the Window “Bliss” wallpaper.

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Scanning — Again

Posted on March 5, 2010 by thedude

Yes, Kelly found a stack of old negatives, and I’m back at it. These days, I basically have the scanner running whenever I’m at the computer. I load up the negative carrier, preview scan a bunch of images, and final scan the best ones. The process is time-consuming, but my new computer is fast enough that I can now run the scanner software in the background pretty much no matter what I’m doing, which is sometimes quite a lot. So, in an evening I can now get 6 or 8 scans done – sometimes without even having to reboot. Yay Windows!

So, I have this shot of Dave that is much taller than it is wide, but man, it looks really nice if you happen to have a your 1600×1200 pixel display in portrait orientation. So there ya go.

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