Any of you remember the 80s sitcom "Perfect Strangers"?

prostheticknowledge:

Export Paper Model Script for Blender 2.6

Tool for free 3D modelling tool Blender that can export a 3D model into papercraft parts to be printed and reconstructed by hand:

This script generates a flat net of a given mesh. It creates SVG files suitable for direct printing and paper modeling. The main goal is a maximal possible automation of the whole process. Common tasks like baking model’s texture onto the output are also offered by the UI.

You can find out more and download the script here

This isn’t the only way to export a 3D model and create a papercraft version - a piece of software from Japan has been around for the best part of a decade called Pepakura Designer. One notable and memorable use of this software has been the “Papercraft Self Portrait” by Eric Testroete from 2009, used to create wearable polygon ‘head’ of the wearer, similar to the cheat mode found in the N64’s “GoldenEye” game:

You can see the rest of the photos of this project here

Want.

Not sure how this song/album will fare on a super sunny day, but on a gloomer like today, it’s perfect.

Anyone living with sun today, let me know.

(Source: Spotify!)

…I nerded out on this just a *little* bit. Sorry!

clairesalcedo:

johncabrera:

epicwinsauce:

trywangle hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet:Hallo, wie du bist? Ich in dein blog Gewesen habe vor Vier stunden. Ihr poesie seint Sehr Gut.

Heehee, German is a funny old language.

It’s older than English, that’s fo’ sho’~

I’m not sure if that’s true. Both German and English derived from the same root, so they’re technically the same age in some respects. I’m pretty sure Old High German and Old English are equally as different from their modern counterparts… and both of those date back to around the same period.

Of the Germanic languages, I believe English went in such a different direction than the rest because of its heavy French influence.

Please correct me, though, if I don’t have that right.

You are correct! I took a linguistic anthropology class last quarter. (Which, if you couldn’t tell from the ensuing ramble, I loved.)

Both English and German are descended from West Germanic (while Northern Germanic went on to split further into West and East categories, giving us Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and Norwegian). More specifically, it went from West Germanic to Anglo-Frisian to Anglic (Old English) to English!  

Old English (nominally, 450 - 1066 CE) began developing into Middle English with the Norman conquest and the introduction of Norman French and Latin words, while still holding on to influences from Celtic languages. 

The beginning of Early Modern English is usually marked by the Great Vowel Shift in the fifteenth century (it was more formerly settled up through the late 1600s, where in 1650, English is just noted as ‘Modern English’ and our era begins). 

(Also, you can still find heavy traces of Old English in the Scots language, which is different from Scots Gaelic.)

I don’t know as much about German as I do English, but I do believe that while a formal written German existed in the 1500s, dialectical spoken differences weren’t finally resolved into Modern German until around the 1800s. (Which makes sense to me, since Germany wasn’t unified until the later 1800s, right?) 

Also, fun fact: the Basque language predates all Indo-European languages—it’s the descendant of one of the languages spoken before the mass migrations to Europe.

And because I’m a nerd, it’s LANGUAGE MAP TIME!

Whoo!

Nerd on, my friend… nerd on.

epicwinsauce:

trywangle hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet: Hallo, wie du bist? Ich in dein blog Gewesen habe vor Vier stunden. Ihr poesie seint Sehr Gut.

Heehee, German is a funny old language.

It’s older than English, that’s fo’ sho’~

I’m not sure if that’s true. Both German and English derived from the same root, so they’re technically the same age in some respects. I’m pretty sure Old High German and Old English are equally as different from their modern counterparts… and both of those date back to around the same period.

Of the Germanic languages, I believe English went in such a different direction than the rest because of its heavy French influence.

Please correct me, though, if I don’t have that right.

everyonedies:

kkillallyourfriends:

The Architect’s Eye features an LED system to create the image of a huge human eyeball that rotates to look to the sky as well as at visitors and the ground. The iris changes color and the pupil increases and decreases in size.

Oh shit