This basic modeling tutorial will teach you how to make Aladdin's Lamp using NURBS modeling technique. By the end of this exercise, you will be familiar with concepts such as revolving, extruding and circular fillets. Let us begin this exercise.Open Maya and create a new project by clicking on File>project>new.In Side View draw a curve using the EP curve tool as shown below. You must move the Bottom control vertex while holding down 'x' on the keyboard to snap that end of the curve to the origin. Using the EP curve tool, draw another curve for the lid.Let us now draw a curve...
6 ways to get real 3D experience at your home
It’s time for some 3D action from the comfort of your home. 3D cinema may have been around for more than a century (yeah, really!), but it’s only now that it ventures in our homes in a way that’s relatively affordable and easy way to digest. And it’s not just movies – can you imagine playing a first person shooter in real 3D immersion? You’ve all played the so-called 3D games, you’ve all seen 3D animation, but 3D films are a different animal all together. The FPS games and movies are “3D” in the sense that they are set in a three dimensional world. In addition to moving left or right, forward and back, there’s the...
Control your PC using GSM mobile
This time something different but related to mobile phone. Sometimes you may think that you can control your PC with your mobile phone. This is a simple example to control your PC with your mobile phone. Actually, I did this for my college project.I dreamed to control my PC like shutting down, sending mails, sending files, starting or stopping services etc. from any where from this universe using my mobile phone with lesser cost. Finally I did it with simple logic.Logic behind the sceneI am having a mobile phone and I can send SMS to my mail id. My mobile phone service provider allows me to send Mail through SMS service. I will send...
Google goes environment friendly
Climate change continues to be one of the biggest, most challenging problems our planet faces, and we know that a sustained global effort is needed if we're going to have any hope of reversing its effects.As the leaders from around the world meet in Copenhagen to address global climate change this month, Google thought it was a good time to reflect on their own carbon footprint.In 2007, they committed to be neutral in Carbon production.Since 2007 we've gone a step further and made a voluntary commitment to buy carbon offsets to cover the portion of our footprint that we cannot yet eliminate — which is what we mean by "carbon neutrality."...
Google & Facebook launches URL shortner: goo.gl & fb.me
Google has just launched Goo.gl, the official Google URL shortener of the world’s largest search engine. The Google Toolbar and the FeedBurner syndication service now utilize Goo.gl for link sharing.People share a lot of links online. This is particularly true as microblogging services such as Twitter have grown in popularity. If you're not familiar with them, URL shorteners basically squeeze a long URL into fewer characters to make it easier to share with others. With character limits in tweets, status updates and other modes of short form publishing, a shorter URL leaves more room to say what's on your mind — and that's why people...
Recent posts by Category or Labels in Blogger
To beautify my blog I thought of having most recent posts by the specific category. I first tried this widget by inTechgrity.I was impressed by it, but I was having problem with it. Since I wanted to call the Javascript more than once for multiple widget they published a known issue, that is we could call the script only one time per page disabling us to have multiple widget of same kind. inTechgrity declared that they'll fix this soon and I am waiting for the fix.And finally I chose an alternative. I thought of simple hack for the default widget by blogger, FEED, which shows recent posts chronologically from any RSS source you define.To...
Starting with Photography- Some basic tips
I started my blog with tips and tricks about technology. My blog is now 3 year old and I am adding something new content in my blog. And that content is what I am keen about, Photography. Photography always attracted me. I neither have high tech Cameras nor I am a Professional or trained photographer, I am just a hobbyist. From now I'll be posting everything that I know about photography and some photographs as well.So in my first post about photography, I am telling you some must-be considered facts that you must know before taking photographs.Lets start then.Most of the photographs that we take are without using tripods/stands. The...
Running Java Programs in your Palm OS
Most of the Palm OS devices doesn't supports Java Programs to be executed. But I have a good news for them. Java Virtual Machine Micro Environment by IBM WebSphere is the program that allows your Palm OS to run Java applications easily as you do in other Java Supported Cell phones. After all Palm is not an ordinary OS, its smarter than any other Cell Phone OS.This tool allows you to conver Jar/Jad files to Prc format, so that you can easily use Java based applications in your Palm device. What can I do from this tool? I can run Opera Mini (most famous mobile web browser), Morange, Ebuddy, Games, and many more.Before January 12, 2008...
Buying a domain name and make profit by selling it
We all might know about the profits that they make from Foreign Exchange, Oil exchange, Metal exchange and other commodity exchange. But what we can start is web domain exchange. There are thousands of people who are registering their own domain names, but the problem strikes there way, for example read this: I'd like to buy a domain, but I discovered that it's already registered by a bulk domain buying company. I tried to contact them but I have received no answer. Do you know how much these companies charge in average for a domain? Or are they focused on the traffic and clicks and will not let it go?Any recommended approach to bid...