Mark B. Tomlinson

I recently screwed up my Desktop Icons in Windows 11.

This is for my reference I recently needed to revert the Kernel on my iMac/Linux machine.

I had some fun recently with some pens and pencils, not real but rather virtual.

I recently posted a quick video of a very basic and yet useful Node Group setup in Blender.

Some Moi3d and Blender models, in no particular order: I can be reached on Mastodon: Mark B Tomlinson.

Overview and Prerequisites This demonstration requires only one Add-On to be installed, it is one that ships with Blender by default, and it is called Loop Tools. 1.

I have been remiss in posting for a while and in April I posted nothing.

After nearly three years living here on the Elbe, we have finally found a new place back in town.

A lot of stuff going on this month and almost none of it productive.

Twenty Five days into the new year and I realised, I hadn’t posted on here yet.

It has been an interesting year, I have rekindled my interest in photography, which I had let slide for a long time.

In a previous post, one full of hopeless optimism and naive enthusiasm, I talked about re-launching my BlenderBits domain, see the About link above it you are interested in seeing the domain, for as long as it exists.

This isn’t intended as a doctrine, just some food for thought For a while now, I have been using the gamma node in Blender as an alternative to the color ramp and the map range node.

We are now in the early stages of October, thank-fully, and I realised I hadn’t posted at all in the previous month.

The month is nearly at an end and I am not feeling like this month has been very productive.

This is a demonstration of how to create a Node Graph in Blender to make and Edge Wear node for use in Cycles.

I have recently been watching a YouTube channel from a Japanese machine tool maker, which I find interesting and relaxing.

Mac doesn’t support Cut and Paste from Finder using: CMD-X CMD-V But you can achieve exactly the same results by using: CMD-C and then CMD-OPT-V This isn’t very intuitive as most OS’s use Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V, but the functionality is there if a little hidde…

We are now well into June, half way in fact, and I realised I haven’t posted on the blog in a while.

When adding mesh assets, for use as a cutter for example, it is important to align the asset to the underlying geometry’s surface normals.

A Alt+A = ArrayDir Ctrl+A = script:moi.geometryDatabase.selectAll(); Shift+A = script:moi.view.resetAll(); Shift+Alt+A = ArrayCurve Ctrl+Shift+A = ArrayCircular B B = Fillet Alt+B = sBridge C C = Rebuild Ctrl+C = CopyClipboard Ctrl+Alt+C = ODCopyToExternal

If you find you are unable to move a curve handle in all three axis, it is probably due to the curve type being set to 2D.

In recent years, there have been huge improvements in n-gon’s (non quad polygons).

I mentioned in a previous post that I had used git and git hooks to upload Hugo blog posts to my server, and that I am now using rsync as a faster more succinct alternative.

I just read a post online about writing and the need to keep on writing.

The Hugo theme template partial google-news has been deprecated for quite some time.

I recently decided to try and recycle some old bees wax candles as they had burnt down pretty much to the bottom but still had a good deal of wax left on them.

Getting un-hooked You Git I have been using Git Hooks to sync local Hugo website files to my remote server.

I had wanted to be a little more consistent when it came to posting on here, however this month got away from me, and to at least post something, I am writing this little piece.

Open, command Mac terminal: Most Mac users will know that the open command in the Terminal will open files in the GUI or open a directory in Finder for example open . will open Finder in the current directory, this is useful, but there are a few more thin…

This post appeared in my feed: # 7 Reasons why I don’t write Nobody’s going to read it anyway Let’s be honest: nobody likes to shout into the void.

Cloud storage, for me at least, is becoming too vulnerable and time consuming to manage.

The default installation of Linux Mint on my iMac went very well right up until the moment it didn’t.

I am currently in the process of resetting an old 2012 iMac after deciding trying to set up the Fusion Drive in there was too much hassle.

Bring back personal blogging This post from the Verge appeared on my feed this morning: Twitter is creaking.

In my last post, The end of social media, I lamented the decline of social media, and my feelings of weariness regarding the interaction and general lack of sociability on social media in the last couple of years.

Sadly, Apple has retired my 2012 iMac, after 10 years.

At the beginning of this month, November, Affinity Serif announced the imminent release of version 2 of its graphic software suit.

Blender Class naming conventions - Python API As of Blender 2.8 the API naming requirement is for the class name to match the following convention: UPPER_CASE_{TYPE}_mixed_case Where {TYPE} is two letters denoting the class type inherited: HT – Header MT…

Backface culling in Blender is set in two places, for solid view and for material view: Solid View In Solid view, i.e.

Unfortunately Symbolic Links and shortcuts don’t work within Typora’s file listing.

I seem to have let this site go unloved for a long time.

Create a batch file, for example: symlink.bat with the following content and edit the source and target locations to suit.

I recently set up a addon for Visual Studio Code, for editing Markdown files in HUGO.

After a few false starts I have finally got my Hugo site setup to use git submodule to push the HTML output to the remote webserver.

I needed to change the name of one of my Macs remotely and this is the command to do it: sudo scutil --set HostName [NewHostNameHere]

I have recently been setting up an old Mac Mini as Webserver and NAS server.

This is the basic structure of a Pie Menu in Blender using Python import bpy from bpy.types import Menu, Operator bl_info = { "name": "", "author": "", "version": (0, 0, 0, 1), "description": "", "blender": (2, 80, 0), "category":…

Apple in its infinite wisdom changed the settings for Samba ‘SMB’ protocol and killed access to my NAS server, thanks Apple not like I wasn’t using it all the time.

Over the last few weeks I have been busy in Blender using the Decalmachine add-on to create some decal textures from Blender.