Last week I had a project to do for my Computer Graphics class. This project required me to generate an image using ray tracing with POV-Ray, and provide animation for it. It wasn’t very hard, and it is a really neat way do render some 3D graphics quite quickly, with fairly little code required. Some of the images generated by POV-Ray are really amazing.
More POV-Ray Renders:
I found some fun pictures to share, a few that include geeky things, and one that mixes Laplace tranforms with sex… 
Enjoy!
Last Monday, the popular college social site, facebook, made a change in how the data was presented. When I logged in, I was pleasantly surprised to see a “NewsFeed” that displayed all of my friends activity over the last several hours/days. But I quickly noted that it seemed not as many people were happy about this new feature as I was. Groups such as “I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK” were beginning to form, and by the middle of the week, one group had amassed over 700,000 members! They called the new features ’stalkerish’ and did not like that they took up so much room. Over and over I repeated to myself, “What are these people thinking? All of the data was already there, now it is just consolidated! Web2.0 people!”
So on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter apologizing to the community, and said that they had hoped for a more positive response, but after two straight days of coding, new privacy controls are in place. Techcrunch posted their unbiased opinion on the whole matter.
I personally agree with Michael Arrington from Techcrunch,
“If this feature had been part Facebook since the beginning, their users would be screaming if Facebook tried to remove it.”
Alwell, Facebook is growing, and at least it is listening to its members.
So, sometimes websites are kinda frustrating… I suppose partially because I don’t completely understand php, html, javascript, AJAX, css, Linux apps, etc… But, I suppose learning can be fun, but it can also be demanding. Especially when you know what you want, but can’t figure out how to achieve it.
Anyways, a few changes to the site. Lightbox now works correctly, AJAXWP is no longer integrated, due to too many problems it was causing, but the pages will fade in if you have a Mozilla based browser.
Also, someone used the contact form, but due to the way it was setup on the server, Gmail put it into my spam folder, and it was deleted… So if whoever did try to contact me would submit again, that would be great.
And as always, if you notice something broken or looking odd, please contact me.
In the beginning, right after Al Gore invented it, the internet was boring. Over the last few years, the internet has become filled with really cool stuff. Like Yoda paraphernalia, and computer cases straight out of Mars/Hell. Just thought I should share and test out lightbox and the image manager.
