Reid's For Fun

LEGO's May mini build was a Blue Jay. I thought he'd look better in a tree which I modeled in LDD. I rendered the scene with POV-Ray 3.7RC7.


40065 Blue Jay by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

I happened to load my sites into IE10 the other day and noticed the reflections were broken. Generally, I wouldn’t care much as I don’t use IE except at work. However, I thought it best that things not continue to look different. I updated reflection.js to the latest version. I also updated jquery.js as it was a bit outdated as well. So far things are looking better. I did notice my site was loading a bit slower though. I’m not sure if this is the new code or something else. I’ll keep watch and update you if something else is amiss.

I also updated hyphenator today. I use it my site to enforce hyphenation in words which generally improves readability. I noticed a bug in IE10 that causes it not to search words correctly when using the hyphenation. There is an option in the new version of hyphenator to use CSS3 hyphenation. This fixes the problem in IE10 which supports it. However, it breaks hyphenation in Google Chrome. That doesn’t look good. I decided to just stay on the latest version of code but with the IE10 bug in place for now.

Lastly, I thought I'd try again to get ligatures working. I spent an evening last week applying new styles and trying to update my fonts to a version that did support them. Sadly, even fonts that said they supported ligatures failed. I really wanted to try to support better topography settings. For now I don’t feel the effort is worth the results.

Feedback, comments and other ideas are always welcome! [ View Article ]

As part of my periodic check of my userbar code, I found that DISH once again changed their pay-per-view (PPV) web page causing my DISH PPV userbar to break. I’ve fixed it again and it now displays a pretty good choice of featured movies. Although events are still included, I dropped them due to the number of movies returned. I probably should turn that into a separate userbar. I also didn’t included new releases as I found they were also listed in the featured movie section. Lastly, since DISH is now promoting “DISH CINEMA” as their PPV brand, I’ve also updated the text as well to note the change in branding.


 Put in image source or UUB tag: http://​3v.​reids4fun.​com/dishppv.cgi [ View Article ]

I'm a little behind in sharing some of my recent LEGO renders. I have an updated version of 6364 that includes the flowers out front and tilted windows. I also fixed a few misplaced pieces. I also have tried to get all my Windows software moved over to my MAC. As such I rendered this image with POV-Ray 3.7RC6 MAC-Beta.


6364 Paramedic Unit by SafePit, on Flickr

I rendered the second image back in December, but apparently forgot to share here. LEGO 40041 Moose is the Monthly Mini Model Build for Dec '12. I rendered the moose with with POV-Ray 3.7RC6 for Windows. The telescope piece (legs) are from LDraw. I was too lazy to make them from scratch.


40041 Moose by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

LEGO released this set in 1975 in Europe, and in 1976 as 485 Fire Truck in the US. Having grown up with these old sets, I have a special place in my heart for these short-lived LEGO mini-figs. Although I enjoy the great designs of today, I miss how simple these models are.

I rendered this model with POV-Ray 3.7RC6 using hand placed code. I didn't use LDD, LDRAW or any other LEGO design tool. This model took a lot longer to create than I expected. POV-Ray spent three days tracing this model. It came out nice, but I need to put some time into speeding up the render.


693 Fire Engine by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the November Mini Build from LEGO rendered with POV-Ray. I love the Mini Builds as they are quick to render and fun to build.


Turkey by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

Blast from the past. This set is one of mine from 1980. I believe one of the last I received while still in Norway. This was rendered with POV-Ray 3.7R6.


6364 Paramedic Unit by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

Goofing around again with some simple LEGO fireworks. Still waiting on the larger render to finish.

Fireworks was the LEGO Club Monthly Mini Model Build for November 2009. Flame part courtesy of LDRAW and LeoCAD. A simple, yet effective model. Rendered with POV-Ray 3.7RC6.


MMMB016 Fireworks by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

Happy Easter! This is a great little set. The ducks are well designed and I love the little ugly duckling. I wonder if he'll become a swan? This is rendered with POV-Ray 3.7RC5.


40030 Duck and Ducklings by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

I posted this a couple of days back on Flickr, but hadn't made it around to posting here. Happy belated Valentine's day to all!


40029 Valentines Day Box by SafePit, on Flickr [ View Article ]

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