I have a web page www.rectorsquid.com where I had been adding pictures of various artwork and other things. It seems like this blog is more easily parsed by search engines and I am going to start placing links to various pictures here because of that. I think that…
Continue readingI built this small ring bender this weekend. It doesn’t have a crank so 3/16th rod is about the biggest material that can be fed through it by hand. It’s really made for bending rod that is part of a large rolling ball sculpture while the rod is…
Continue readingIn keeping with the exhibitionist-diary concept that is called “blog,” I’ll write something today even though I have nothing going on worth writing about. I am working on a switch for the large RBS (Rolling Ball Sculpture) and it’s giving me trouble. It’s not the kind of trouble…
Continue readingRolling Ball Sculpture I’ll need to post some photos soon. I’m working on a billiard ball rolling ball sculpture. It is about 4.5 feet tall and has a chain lift like a roller coaster. The cool feature of this sculpture is the authentic roller coaster look and feel….
Continue readingSo far, the only people who have signed up to comment on my blog are spammers who are on lists of evil ^&*#%$&^#@% who spam on forums. I deleted them within a few hours of seeing their accounts. If someone reads any of this, even if this blog…
Continue readingMy garage floor isn’t level so I made this small adjustable table top for my sculpting table. Rolling ball sculptures need a level work area during construction if they are to work when they are finished. I used the base and the basic unadjustable table for years. This…
Continue readingI finished my initial SSE2 project. It worked out well but I was hoping that it would work out better than just “well.” The algorithm I needed to speed up is called the Smith-Waterman algorithm. In reality, Smith and Waterman modified a type of algorithm called a dynamic…
Continue readingI just finished this rolling ball sculpture. It’s about 18″ tall: Another larger view. Click on the image to see the larger version: lick this one to see a closeup of part of the sculpture:
Continue readingI don’t have time to do it now but I’m looking forward to writing up a description of the things I’m learning using the SSE2 instructions. One thing I see already is that making an 8 item pipeline and operating on 8 items in parallel only seems to…
Continue reading#define MYMAX( a, b, c ) ( c = ( a & ~( ( a – b ) >> 31 ) ) | ( b & ( ( a – b ) >> 31 ) ) ) An interesting thing that can be done is this: #define MYMAX(…
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