Archive for June, 2008

A new release is available here: Export Sheep

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A couple of minor code updates make the new version blazing faster when used on big flame-packs.

This script Export the current selected flame to file compatible for ES (ElectricSheep) server submission.

ExportSheep has a very simple usage: it exports the currently selected flame to a new file that is compatible to ES server submission.
Using ExportSheep you don’t have to modify the flame you want upload to by hand anymore; simply upload the generated file.

The script deals with the whole creation process by its own; it also checks for proper Variations and “kills” the unsupported ones.
It displays the preview of the generated file so you can check the current selected flame against the generated one.

It’s available in two versions:
Export Sheep s2.6 for the current server
and
Export Sheep s2.7 for the upcoming 2.7 server

The 2.7 version uses three parameters located end of the main comment: render width, height and quality. They’re value is equal to the actual beta server one but they can be changed when the server will switch to the final stage.

The script is actually in testing-stage; it works ok, as far as I can see, but there’d still be some minor faults in it. Use it at your own risk.

Download here (Right click – Save As)
Export Sheep s2.6 or Export Sheep s2.7

Released under GPL License – http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
see the file COPYING for the license covering this software.

Credits or donations are not mandatory but very appreciated especially when using “Export Sheep” in commercial production. Contact me via email.

Changelog
v 0.7 – 17 June 2008
Blazing faster when used on big flame-packs

v 0.6 – 15 June 2008
Minor code clean up

v 0.5 – 14 June 2008
Resolved a couple of minor bugs

v 0.4 – 13 June 2008
Resolved a minor bug regarding FinalXForm handling
Minor code optimization and clean up

v 0.3 – 12 June 2008
Faster browsing for big Flame files
Code clean up

v 0.2 – 11 June 2008
Code optimization

v 0.1 – 10 June 2008
First internal implementation adapting RenderFlam3 script
Useless code removed

A new release is available here: Export Sheep

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ExportSheep has a very simple usage: it exports the currently selected flame to a new file that is compatible to ES server submission.
Using ExportSheep you don’t have to modify the flame you want upload to by hand anymore; simply upload the generated file.

The script deals with the whole creation process by its own; it also checks for proper Variations and “kills” the unsupported ones.
It displays the preview of the generated file so you can check the current selected flame against the generated one.

It’s available in two versions:
Export Sheep s2.6 for the current server
and
Export Sheep s2.7 for the upcoming 2.7 server

The 2.7 version uses three parameters located end of the main comment: render width, height and quality. They’re value is equal to the actual beta server one but they can be changed when the server will switch to the final stage.

The script is actually in testing-stage; it works ok, as far as I can see, but there’d still be some minor faults in it. Use it at your own risk.

Download here (Right click – Save As)
Export Sheep s2.6 or Export Sheep s2.7

Released under GPL License – http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
see the file COPYING for the license covering this software.

Credits or donations are not mandatory but very appreciated especially when using “Export Sheep” in commercial production. Contact me via email.

We carve out groups of stars in the heavens, and call them constellations, and the stars patiently suffer us to do so–tho if they knew what we were doing, some of them might feel much surprised at the partners we had given them. We name the same constellation diversely, as Charles’s Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. None of the names will be false, and one will be as true as another, for all are applicable.

In all these cases we humanly make an addition to some sensible reality, and that reality tolerates the addition. All the additions ‘agree’ with the reality; they fit it, while they build it out. No one of them is false. Which may be treated as the more true, depends altogether on the human use of it. If the 27 is a number of dollars which I find in a drawer where I had left 28, it is 28 minus 1. If it is the number of inches in a shelf which I wish to insert into a cupboard 26 inches wide, it is 26 plus 1. If I wish to ennoble the heavens by the constellations I see there, ‘Charles’s Wain’ would be more true than ‘Dipper.’ My friend Frederick Myers was humorously indignant that that prodigious star-group should remind us Americans of nothing but a culinary utensil.

What shall we call a THING anyhow? It seems quite arbitrary, for we carve out everything, just as we carve out constellations, to suit our human purposes. For me, this whole ‘audience’ is one thing, which grows now restless, now attentive. I have no use at present for its individual units, so I don’t consider them. So of an ‘army,’ of a ‘nation.’ But in your own eyes, ladies and gentlemen, to call you ‘audience’ is an accidental way of taking you. The permanently real things for you are your individual persons. To an anatomist, again, those persons are but organisms, and the real things are the organs. Not the organs, so much as their constituent cells, say the histologists; not the cells, but their molecules, say in turn the chemists.

PRAGMATISM – A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, William James, Lecture VII – Pragmatism and Humanism

Dedicated to my wife Federica for her Birthday.

A Mandala style design.

My actual Photostream – Jun 3, 2008.
This is a limited selection of exposed photos out of my own constant growing library.
I’ll expose more in future.

We’re all forced to Dispersive Irradiation.
Everything we do, everything we think and every act we play has an influencing power over the surroundings but this sway quickly decays as long as the energy travels from the starting point to the outer side.
We all have to share and propagate good influence energy by interaction rather than irradiation.

I’ve recently updated my WordPress install form an old unsupported development branch to the new one and found that the Category listing is now printed in Alphabetical order instead of the old ID based old method.

I have to say that I personally prefer the old ID sorting mode, it’s better suited to my own blog needing, so I browsed the codex and the forum to find a solution to put it back to the previous mode.
I found a couple of plugins that can do the trick but they’re not the way I was looking for.
Then I found this a very simple method by MichaelH; it only needs a small change editing one of the WordPress files and it works like a charm on every versions, as far as I can say.

Here it is:
open the “category-template.php” file
change
usort($categories, '_usort_terms_by_name');
to
usort($categories, '_usort_terms_by_ID');

The complete article is available here: the_category sort by ID