Archive for October, 2005

Whiskas Cat Bed
No Comments October 31st, 2005

Cat beds are not traditionally stylish items, no doubt much to the disapproval of your average cat (although of course no cat on the planet would consider itself to be anything less than above average). This appalling state of affairs has finally been remedied by the deeply cool Whiskas Bed - ergonomic, blissfully minimalist and [...]



Architecture Quotes 01
No Comments October 31st, 2005

Of all the arts in the world, none is more fundamental to the way we live than architecture. It is a mirror of our own time and of times gone by, a diary that is written in mud and timber, in brick and stone, in iron and steel, in concrete and glass. Our homes, our [...]



Disable AutoCAD Animated Zoom
No Comments October 30th, 2005

I believe that majority of us find it a cool features, during the first few days. I believe that majority of the user would like to disable this feature. Type “VTOPTIONS” in the command line dialog box, then uncheck the checker box for “allow animation for pan & zoom”

Set the transition speed by moving the [...]



Perspective Human Scale
No Comments October 29th, 2005

Besides line weight mistakes in a presentation boards, the other most common mistake would be the perspective view. Having said that most of us make simple mistake in our perspective view, include below is one good example of a bad perspective view with errors. What is the mistake? Do figure it out before scrolling down [...]



Dot Matric Printer Blog
No Comments October 28th, 2005

This must be one of the most creative blog theme that ever in the blogging world. It features the dot matrix printer sheet looks. Check the blog out - Papel Continuo (non-english)
Technorati Tags: Dot matrix Printer, Blogs, Wordpress Theme, Creative Blogs



Photoshop Fire Technique
No Comments October 25th, 2005

Creating the fire effect from an empty new template in Photoshop seems to be almost impossible, it require a very advance level of understanding of Photoshop and with years of experience. Greg – the webmaster for photoshoptechniques.com has found the solution. Creating the Fire effect shown at the image above is as simple as abc. [...]



The Mad Poet
2 Comments October 23rd, 2005

“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs. but all I have done before the the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy five I’ll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of [...]



Photoshop Image Masking
3 Comments October 23rd, 2005

When it comes to presentation, inserting raster images of human and trees gives it an overall feeling of liveliness. The whole idea is to counter the mono tone feeling of line drawings, especially when it comes to presenting your work to someone who is not in the architecture line of field.
I have included a few [...]



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    Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

    Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

    The author is not a CAD expert nor a web genius. Just another guy spending too much time online (believe me, way too much). The tutorials featured here are meant for basic level understanding.








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