I conjure texts too! - A poem.

So far I did not feature examples of text creation in this blog. It is time for this to change. Below you see a poem (or at least an attempt to poetry) I wrote, when thinking of science 'discovery' that 97% of human DNA has no function they were able to detect, because it doesn't produce proteins which is why that incited to tempt scientists to call that 97% 'junk DNA'.

Some - mainly spiritually inclined people - suggest that humankind originally had 12 strand DNA instead of the 2 strand of which our bodily tissue consists of now. Supposing such a claim is true, it would mean that we use only 3% of 1/6th of our true potential..., which equals 0.005th of the original DNA structure, assuming extra strands do not just increase perception and skills exponentially.....

Com-Art airbrush paint

After all digital tinkering with DTP and 2D & 3D apps, it's time to pick up the airbrush once more. My mate Geerco van Strien polished the needle of the Iwata Micron and we bought a Com-Art portrait set of paints at Airbrush Services Almere. Initially I tried diluting them with water, but it appeared almost unnecessary. A test of this paint that was new to me you see below.

Com-Art test next to a 20 Euro cent coin

3D printing

3D printing has a great future. The devices are still unaffordable for the average consumer, but as the technique develops it will become within reach of the private people. Larger, complex objects will be printed by specialized companies, but simple constructions will one time soon be printed at home not too far away in the future. As is the case with all consumer goods, the possibility to produce complex objects with 3D printing devices will be increasing rapidly. This will include plastic parts, composite materials, metals (including non-ferro objects). Basically any material needed to produce useful things.

Simple 3D printed ring

Suffer from soccer

This is the Ajax logo - the new one - created in Rhino 3D version 5, mainly using the pipe command. Ajax has started the 2013 - 2014 in a horrendous way. The transfers of Christian Eriksen and Toby Alderwereld were in no way compensated. The technical management failed to anticipate their departure that has been a foreseeable event the entire preceding year. 

Working under pressure

Working under pressure. Negative pressure as you might notice. It requires more than one 3D applications between which objects can be traded using either .dxf or .3ds files. It makes working for the user easier but the computer has to work harder several 3D apps open.

Pressure gauge

High end 3D app filleting

Low end and mid range 3D application commonly struggle with producing proper filleting of curves. Some even mess up in performing such tasks. Even more so when fillets of different radii meet and / or surfaces join at angles other than perpendicular. High end 3D programs however have no trouble handling such matters. See image below where detail is in red circles.

From flawed 3D fillet rendering towards emerging advanced 3D printing technologies

3D applications have different approaches to processing matters; the way in which their functions handle things are distinguished. The algorithms in which they calculate certain processes are different formulas. In this respect they resemble people all of whom have different talents (or not) and different things at which they suck (pardon my French). The image below is an example of the different way of handling of matters.

The fillet of the object at the top is irregular while the bottom one is smooth. It is an angled joint of two pipes of a different diameter - one of the constructions that a number of 3D programs do not handle well. The fillet actually looks like a real life weld of welder who was not too skilled. Also the fillet command disrupted the surface of the slanted pipe, assuming the bigger pipe had a thicker wall than the slanted pipe. The application producing the poor filleting does an excellent job at other types of modeling, because it does not have to take into account for what welders encounter in real life, like amperage setting, measures of gas supply, navigating difficult to access tight spots, using different types of welding machines and electrodes. 3D renderings do not have such options and limitations because they are creating animations, are of the virtual world. It is probably why many 3D artists use various applications to achieve whatever they want to achieve, presuming that the export files are compatible to continue to work in order to create a visually correct appearance. This property does not exclusively apply to filleting; 3D applications are capable of creating complex constructions that can only be built in real life with 3D printers, simply because traditional CNC machines are unable to reach and process complex areas.

3D printers waste far less material than traditional subtractive machining, that has more production limitations and results in more waste of material. Bridging those gaps becomes less difficult as 3D printing continues to evolve into methods never seen before until relatively recently, like advanced 3D printing objects from a specialised liquid with innovative approach, that actually is capable to translate digital constructions into real life manufacturing of ultra complex parts without interference of materials and greater strength than CNC machines can achieve, without expensive industrial robots, admittedly at a lower pace at this point in time. But as we have witnessed over the past decades, such problems will one time be resolved, like progressing from digitally flawed 3D fillets to far more elevated production techniques. Not just in the industrial sector, but also in the advanced medical field in which is called Tomographic reconstruction, with which tiny parts of internal organs of the human body are built. All of this remarkable progress has taken place in roughly over thirty years.

High end applications

I have been watching a number of tutorials on Youtube on a high end 3D program - Solid Edge - and became stunned by its complexity that was paired with a user friendliness that I was unaware of. This seems to be a contradiction, but in fact it just requires the user to adapt a different frame of mind when modeling parts. What this means, is that many relations between (sub) parts exists - similar to what we encounter in every day life - that we take for grated without actually being aware of it. The complex functionality was made to serve user comfort and increase construction options dramatically, which are features never seen in the over the counter commercial apps most people have installed on their computer.

Browsers and Flash

Flash can only be seen in browsers when the plugin is installed. It is often not behaving like is described in the specs of either of the components. Corporations would have you believe that they are working towards plugin-free browsers in developing HTML5. This of course is quite ludicrous. Many programs have the functionality that allows the installation of plugins that enrich the programs' functionality that in some cases raise their level of usability to heights that manufacturers and / or users had never dreamed of. Sadly many creators of plugins put malware in the code, which has become more of a standard than not in these times in which programmers aren't bothered by becoming a nuisance to the unassuming.