Archive for October, 2008



Decorating your Python code

October 10th, 2008 by Patrick Boucher. Viewed 5781 times.

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 [...]

Logging and being proactive

October 5th, 2008 by Patrick Boucher. Viewed 6071 times.

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 [...]

Gerstner Waves 102

October 1st, 2008 by Patrick Boucher. Viewed 5877 times.

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, [...]