Cube Flag
Jul/070
Since I live in America, I suppose I should be patriotic… Well, I’ll use this opportunity to show off my cool Cube Flag! (Huge – 6000×4500)
Here’s an animation.
This is based on (actually, taken from) my animated US Open logo. Made with POV-Ray, of course. (Source code will be up in a few years. :-)
Waltzing Cube and Alg Display
Jun/070
A lot of updates are missing here…
Anyhow, I created a synchronized “Waltzing Cube” animation.
I also implemented an alg display feature (actually, two) as a Firefox search engine.
GEB Blocks
Jan/070
I got this idea from GEB (Gödel, Escher, Bach). Find your initials in the animation.
LG Initials
Alg of the Week
Jan/070
This year, I am introducing the Alg of the Week. The first alg is cube-in-cube-in-cube.
Countdown Animation
Dec/060
Happy New Year!
The POV-Ray source code; directions for custom render:
Boot POV-Ray; render 345 frames at good resolution. Align music beat every second (starting 0.5 seconds). Concatenate and merge at 30 FPS; enjoy any time.
POV-Ray Short Code Contest Entries
Dec/060
Did I ever mention my two entries into the POV-Ray Short Code Contest 4? Guess which two are mine.
Rubik’s Cube Animation System
Nov/060
November 26: I finally cleaned up POV-Ray my Rubik’s cube animation system; it’s not efficient, but it’s a start… The file as is rendered at high resolution should give a nice image. Use +kff200 for a joined T and J PLL animation.
You can get POV-Ray here. It’s a great program (although raytracing animation is far from real-time, so I’m going to try to port the code to OpenGL).
December 6: The Rubik’s cube animation system is now capable of parsing an algorithm as a string in the familiar URFLBD format (with 2, ‘, 2′[='2] suffixes). I could add slice turns and double-layer twists, if requested…
Potential Square-1 Shape Animations
Nov/060
Michael Fung gave me permission to render his Square-1 shape algorithms for getting into cube shape. I’ll have to figure out a way to put up the animations, but for now, a PDF. I’ll investigate the case of several missing images.
Harry Potter Opening
Sep/060
Have you seen my speculation of the opening to the next Harry Potter movie? It’s an old render; I had to compress it from a hundred MB’s. That blotch at the end should be a broomstick.
Lucas Garron
