The Cyber Security Challenge UK recently launched a new cyber challenge for the Xmas holiday. The challenge takes the form of an image containing a lot of random-looking text with a Christmas tree in the middle. I’m still not sure…
Author: phil
So long, Ceefax
Ceefax is now officially dead :-(
A Trip to the Moon
This is my last-minute entry to the Movie Moments competition at the Blender Guru website (which closes in literally a matter of minutes). Wish I had a bit more time to spend on this, but never mind… In case you’re wondering, it’s…
Tagged with: blender
Adam Buxton’s Counting Song
This is just brilliant:
An electric monk for OS X
One of the characters in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams is an electric monk, which is a robot built for the sole purpose of believing in things so its owner doesn’t have to. Well, now you can have…
Tagged with: douglas adams
How many Bond films can you name in 5 minutes?
I only got round to watching A Quantum Of Solace last week. However, there is apparently a new Bond movie coming out later this year. How many of the other Bond films can you remember? Have a go at this…
Tagged with: quiz
Optical illusion
Here’s an optical illusion I just made. Keep your eyes on the black dot in the middle. (Click for a bigger image.) Did you see the rotating spokes in the white circles around the outside?
Tagged with: time wasting
Singing banana code challenge 2012
Last month the ever-cheerful James Grime (a.k.a. “singingbanana”) of the Enigma Project launched a competition where people were invited to decipher an encrypted message. The prize was a signed copy of The Code Book by Simon Singh (which is an excellent…
Tagged with: competition
Where are the MP3 files in my iPod?
To cut a long story short — I want to get my MP3 files out of the iPod (5th generation) and on to the hard drive on my laptop. This can be done by re-syncing the iPod, but I’m only…
Rendering ocean waves in 3D
There’s an old post on the Gamasutra website that describes a Fourier-based algorithm for generating wind-driven waves in deep water. I wrote a little program to generate water displacement maps based on this algorithm and tried it out in Blender.…
Top