Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
Building H Building
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Apologies in advance (1) to Daft Punk, I'm sorry I used your music. (2) to everyone else. I'm sorry I used Daft Punk's music.
Ah, the building that gave birth to not only Marc Almond, but also the Kaiser Chiefs — I'll miss it when it's knocked down.
Just one thing that I want to mention ... I'm really proud of (a) the scripts, (b) the editing (although it could be better), and (c) the Illustrator and maths work that went into that. But I'm also either (a) dead chuffed, or (b) having to confess, that I used Google Maps to work out what the hell is going on on our roof, and where the skylights on the Fine Art studios go.
PS. The last bit — it's funny, because that's where I go to smoke...
Hello Jaw. Hello Floor.
That was really impressive. I can't help but think that architects would pay big money for this as a way to demo their designs.
Thanks guys
I dunno about it being an architectural tool though, it's limited (at the moment) to only doing rectangles and right-angles. Although I suppose ith wouldn't be too hard to pull out circles and triangles, and extract rotational infor from the XML.
The thing is though, it kinda relates to what I was blathering on about yesterday — I had a problem in that I wanted to recreate H Building, but didn't want to go through the tedious hassle of making that many prims, working out where they should go, and setting the numbers, prim-by-prim inworld.
So I figured "OK, so I can draw it all quite quickly in Illustrator, but what format can I use to get the data out, and how can I feed that into a LSL script that will do it all for me?"
That's what computers are for, I feel
Verily princess, thou art the dog's dangleys!
/me doffs cap to your integratery goodness.
(Still diggin' the wiggle )
I've only just read what you wrote last night and I think you're right about the generation divide with respect to computing.
I belong to the generation born before 1970 and generalising from my own experience most of my contemporaries do see computers as machines. Machines not fundamentally different from stereos or televisions. Machines you use to achieve certain aims.
Although I've never worked in IT I do have a somewhat stronger interest in computers than my friends. But I find it difficult to escape from that mind-set in which computers are machines. For instance, I've dabbled in programming. Now, assembly language and C make sense to me. High-level coding doesn't. For obvious reasons — with assembly and C it's the machine, it's first principles, it's solving problems. But on-the-fly, interactive, creative web-development confuses the hell out of me.
Now that is cool. I want to see my art done up in Second Life.