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Saturday night I spent some time helping with The Art Door‘s Horror Maze. I was approached to join The Art Door a few months back and unfortunately forgot all about it until Wynd sent out a Conference IM to announce the Horror Maze. I popped along and had a good laugh finding my way through [...]

Well it’s been blogged a-plenty already and I missed the show itself (from what I’ve read it was last night, Wednesday 24th October on Channel 5 (UK) – Channel 5 (UK) is about 6 months behind the US release of CSI: NY) and I’m praying there will be a repeat soon. So what am I [...]

Following on from the progress made with the rounded cylinder sculpt generator I found that the Linden-owned map page (page now known as Linden Land Map was SL Map API) was borked due to Linden Labs upgrading to use the Google Maps API (anyone hear an announcement on that one?). With the upgrade to the [...]

Well folks, I eventually managed to fix that issue with the rounded cylinder. In the process I also found an issue with PNG generation (which incidentally was due to my server upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5 and the ImagePNG function now takes a compression of 0 to 9 as opposed to the ImageJPEG of 0 [...]

That time of year has come around again, I’ve now been a resident of Second Life for 2 years! I won’t be throwing a party though as I’ve not really been in-world much of late, though I have popped in to mess around with one thing or another, most notably of late is the Sun [...]

Well folks, Real Life has struck again and I’ve not done much with sculpties or SL in general for the past few weeks/months. I had spent some time working on a rounded cube sculpty generator (variable radius on the rounded edges) however when that proved excessively difficult to get my head around I went for [...]

With Second Life’s latest viewer comes the option to choose between spherical, cylindrical, planar or toroidal mapping for your sculpties. Looks like I’ll have my work cut out for me when I get the chance to work on my sculpty tools. I’m still looking for ideas or requests for useful tools. One suggestion was to [...]

The run up to Second Life’s 4th Anniversary has begun. This year expect to see artworks from the four ages of second life (each year of SL). This is a perfect opportunity for me to show off my Flexi-hedra display from last years (SL3B) anniversary art exhibition. I’ve already got it out and brushed the [...]