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Merry Christmas

May you all have a joyous Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

This animated Christmas card is based on a famous painting “The Virgin with Angels” by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, oil on canvas, completed around 1900. The original painting is in a museum in Paris, France. The complete image can be seen here.

I can’t take credit for the animation since this appeared as an example of animating methods in a tutorial on the SWiSH website. SWiSH is the program I use for some of the flash seen on our websites. I modified the script in the scrolling text for our custom Christmas greeting.

December 24, 2011 by Holidays Nerdliness

Cactus Flowers in 3D

cactus-flowers.pngVerna posted a photo of a flower that bloomed on our new cactus. When we planted the cactus, it had three flower buds on it.

Image: 3D Cactus Flowers. Click to enlarge.

Last night, the remaining two flowers opened up. This morning, I took a pair of photos this morning, hoping to make a 3D image of the flowers. This is the result.

Of course, you will need 3D glasses to view the red/cyan anaglyph. If you don’t have a pair of 3D glasses, you can view the 2D version here.

April 20, 2011 by Bob's 3D Stuff Home & Garden Nerdliness

Verna’s 3D Arizona House

vernas-3d-house.pngVerna took a pair of pictures of the newly cleaned-up palo verde in front of the house yesterday before the landscape crew started placing the river rocks. They cleaned up the slopes in front of the house and trimmed the tree before Verna took a pair of photos which coincidentally lined up to allow me to compose this 3D anaglyph picture. Click on the image to enlarge.

Of course, to properly view the anaglyph, you will need your free pair of 3D glasses. If you don’t have 3D glasses, you can view the 2D image here.

March 5, 2011 by Arizona Bob's 3D Stuff Nerdliness Photography

One Piece at a Time

hl-2230.jpgSince we’re going to need a printer for our new home in Arizona and still need one when we’re in California, we bought a new laser printer. It’s a Brother model HL-2230 which is a later model, but similar to the printer we already have at the old place.

I got the printer hooked up and operational this afternoon. Verna snapped this photo (click to enlarge) of the printer cranking out it’s first test page. It’s good to have a printer again. We have been doing without for a month or so. We might not have much furniture in Camp Casandro* but we have a working laser printer, by God.

We are adding one or two things at a time. Yesterday, our bed frame finally came in. We assembled it and (finally) didn’t have to sleep in a mattress and box spring on the floor.

* Our Arizona home is near Casandro Wash and Casandro Dam.

February 2, 2011 by Arizona Nerdliness Retirement

Mountainscape Panorama

This is what we saw from a ridge on the west side of town today as we looked to the north. This looks in the general direction toward Yarnell and Prescott with the Hassayampa river valley at the far right side. Click on the panorama to see full-sized.

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February 1, 2011 by Arizona Nerdliness Panoramas

Spirit of Santa Monica in 3D

dc3d.pngDuring our drive to our dentist in Santa Monica, CA, we took a side trip through Santa Monica Airport where I learned to fly. Since the last time I was there, the city erected this monument to the memory of Donald Douglas who founded Douglas Aircraft. His company built many airplanes in Santa Monica.

The airplane is the venerable DC3 which is still in use some places in the world today. The plane sits on three pillars designed to give it a jaunty climbing left turn attitude. A bronze statue of Donald Douglas and his dog “Bar” (short for Wunderbar – German for wonderful).

Click on the image to see the full-sized anaglyph image. If you don’t yet have your free pair of 3D glasses, you can see the 2D image here.

January 6, 2011 by Aerospace Bob's 3D Stuff Nerdliness

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