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Hey folks,
time to release another plugin under the flag of Sixbirds Barcelona!
As already shown in a teaser video on vimeo.com, we worked on a plugin to use particles as pixels to unleash the power of ICE to textures.

Hey folks!
Edit: I upgraded the addon to version 1.3, see the 13th solver for new description of the Nulls 2 Nurbssurface. Additionally I fixed two bugs and removed some nasty logmessages from the Null 2 Curve solver. Some solvers are NOT compatible with the version 1.3, so I will keep the link to the previous [...]

I have touched on Python decorators in the past in this article (although that decorator was a bit convoluted). Decorators can be extremely useful in many situations and here are a few that I propose may help streamline script development.
Note: For those of you who would like a bit of background information on decorators you [...]

You write tools for artists under a deadline (yours and theirs). You live in a production oriented world. Unit testing, beta testing and anticipating can only go so far, and that is only if you have time to properly test. You have to accept that eventually, your code will break. How it breaks and how [...]

During the Gerstner Wave 101 video I alluded to stacking multiple waves together to create more complex surfaces. The idea is that for each successive wave or octave that is added onto the effect, the number of waves be greater, the amplitude be smaller and the speed be slower.
Note: To see your full effect, make [...]