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Here’s an awesome little webpage I found the other day on www.digg.com and spent a good hour or so fooling around with. I’m incredibly impressed by how inutitive the designer has made sketching in 3D. The only thing I think it’s missing is a zoom control.

Anyways, this great little applet lets you sketch a design in 2D and then it creates a 3D model from what you’ve drawn. The controls couldn’t be easier: Left click to draw, right click to rotate. If you want to attach an object to another object draw the shape of the connection and it enters “extrude” mode. then you can rotate the image and draw the shape to be attached.

Anyways, here’s the link to part of Takeo Igarashi’s site Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design .

Apparently he has created a newer version that lets you colour the 3D object as well but it must be downloaded. It’s available here (SmoothTeddy).

technorati tags:sketching, 2d, 3d, design, fun, doodle

Ok, so after having lived in our free Korean apartment for seven and a half months we finally decided to test out the mysterious device sitting atop the bowl of our toilet. I figured the safest way would be to put cling film over the top and just let ‘er rip.

So we set it all up and tested her out, I’ll let you have a look at the video instead of trying to describe what happened exactly. By the way, that’s me laughing like Kermit the Frog.

Google video in a new window and Download Here

So, all in all, the bidet gets a mediocre C in the water temperature category delivering a luke warm stream. It gets a B+ in ease of use, though I’m still puzzled by the flower knob. But blows the competition out of the water (pun not intended and then later intended) with a massive A+ managing to soak the ceiling above the coat closet in our hallway.

Ok, lets see where this takes us. I’ve created a new blog because Drupal was a pain in the arse to deal with at times and lets face it, my old site was butt ugly. That’s just one of Drupal’s shortcomings but it’s the one that bugged me most I think.

So I’ve created this new blog using WordPress and I am constantly being impressed by it. The options are logically laid out in a nice interface and posting and creating categories and all that is done so simply and easily. IMO it beatsthe pants of Drupal, for blogging at least.

Ok, I stopped talking about that so no one’s eyes would glaze over too much. Life’s been good in Korea so far, I’ve met a bunch of bboys, both foreign and Korean. I may in fact be entering a battle with some of them next weeked (no this week) and I’ll be sure to post footage if this does go through. Which reminds me, last weekend I went to the UK BBoy Championship Qualifying Competition for Korea. Whichever crew won would go on to the finals in England in late October. So I figure I might as well post the semi-final and final battles, for your enjoyment.

Semi-Final Battles

Rivers vs Drifters (Save to your Computer – Watch without saving)
TIP vs MAX Crew (Save to your Computer – Watch without saving)

Final Battle

TIP vs Drifters (Save to your Computer – Watch without saving)