I am at that stumbling point between projects where I have many ideas and none of them is compelling. The current welded milk jug project is going slowly because I have lost a little bit of interest in it. A few weeks ago, I was trying to cut…
Continue readingI have worked on various art projects over the years. This is a collection of some of those projects. Links are provided when more details or alternate views are available. Computer programming projects can be found here. Untitled Rolling Ball Sculpture 2018 Steel, Acrylic, Electric Motor Untitled…
Continue readingThe latest sculpture from my Welding for Art class at TMCC. This was an interesting project. The requirement in class was to make a sculpture that would be interesting to a blind person. I had a drawing of this sculpture that was a few years old but that…
Continue readingI made another improvements to the Linkage video code. It now gives 1080p HD video in the High Quality mode. It also generates the HD video using the full video area regardless of the size of the window on screen. Better Quality Video If the video doesn’t look…
Continue readingI made this alternative to the traditional watt linkage for a beam engine. This changes the location of the pivot that controls the parallel motion. You can look at a few older posts to find the original design. Alternative Watt Linkage
Continue readingI have a Windows program written in C++ using MFC. MFC handles some things very well but there are some oddities in it that are a bit painful to handle. Using the document/view architecture is a good idea if the document can be separated from the actual view…
Continue readingI changed the Linkage program so that a click anywhere within a link will select it. This is in addition to the already existing code that would detect a click anywhere within about 8 pixels of the edge of a link. That selection distance was also increased for…
Continue readingHigher Quality Video Higher Quality Rendering The video creation feature now supports the standard quality and a higher quality setting. The standard quality is not very fast because of the time that is spent rendering the video frame. The higher quality rendering uses some anti-alias techniques to get…
Continue readingThe Watt parallel motion linkage is show on the internet numerous times. A simple “watt parallel motion” search for images yields enough results to make anyone happy. The interesting thing about these images is that they all look different. Well, there are a few variations that make me…
Continue readingI have had two people mention that they wanted the linkage program to run on Windows XP. One person had told me that it crashed and I then changed the install program to fail if the system is XP and not Vista or Windows 7. Well, I finally…
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