Posted by Nicholas Pisca | Jan 30, 2010 | Digital, MEL, Practice, Scripting, Translators |
Maya has some simple file and folder query functions. By setting up a simple recursive procedure, scripters can cycle through a directory and its respective subdirectories. Then by utilizing the file extension filtering, you...
Read MorePosted by Nicholas Pisca | Jan 24, 2010 | Digital, Fabrication, MEL, Practice, Rendering, Representation, Scripting, Structures |
Something I missed early last year, was the review of the book eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century by Chris Warren, from Death by Architecture. His overall critique of the book was positive, claiming it, with respect to the...
Read MorePosted by Nicholas Pisca | Jan 19, 2010 | Animations, Digital, Fabrication, MEL, Practice, Rendering, Representation, Scripting, Structures |
This was a pleasant surprise. Back in 2006, I submitted my Genotower to the first evolo competition, where it didn’t place. However, it was published in their book and now has been showcased as “Special...
Read MorePosted by Nicholas Pisca | Jan 19, 2010 | Animations, Digital, Fabrication, MEL, Rendering, Representation, Scripting, Translators |
Here’s a simple code for getting the center of gravity or average center of several vectors. This comes in handy when you are trying to find a centroid of a cluster of vertexes of polygons, control vertices of nurbs...
Read MorePosted by Nicholas Pisca | Dec 18, 2009 | Animations, Digital, Practice, Rendering, Representation, Scripting |
Hats off to Neil Leach, Roland Ritter, and Dean Ma for the best conference of 2009. I was on the second panel responding to the mini-presentations on “Parametric Techniques.” This consisted of myself, Marcos Novak,...
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