This site was meant originally to be dedicated to plumbing as a
field of 3d graphics. But eventually it developed into a site about
graphics, computers, digital art and some plumbing. Navigation is
made as simple as possible. The bar above is quite self-explanatory.
It contains the following buttons: "home", where you are now, and
where I put my albums and other important information, "tutorials"
which indexes the articles and tutorials that I wrote, "contact",
where you can send me an email, if you have something to say, and
"sitemap" for the curious and web-crawlers.
I was delayed at my plumbing work in winter 2007-2008, and in order to kill the spare time that I had in a huge amount I wrote in PHP and Javascript an on-line POV-Ray texture generator that I named TexGenPOV. It's a neat texture maker that outputs in a clean POV-Ray code and allows a fast preview. Unfortunately due to net limitations it doesn't support transparency and other slow features like interior and radiosity. But I hope to develop my program further to add everything that was not included yet and make it a really powerful texture editor, if I get enough of feedback and am sure that my TexGenPOV is needed. It will be off-line this time. One more important thing about TexGenPOV is that you can save your experiments in TexGenPOV's database to share with your friends and the whole world, like this.
This is my
first album. It was inspired by reading Ontario Building Code Part 7,
when I was preparing to take the plumbing exam for the provincial
license. Besides other images it contains one nice picture and a
couple of pretty gross ones. The shapes were made with sPatch and
rendered in POV-Ray. The Ontario Building Code is not the most
exciting book in the world, and I don't use sPatch anymore. It's a
simple modeling program with limited capabilities. I discovered that
Blender is more powerful and efficient. But POV-Ray is the best. Also
I made a nice guide about POV textures and their syntax. It's
a great reference material for everyone who begins studying
POV-Ray.
Next album is coming soon.
