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  • Plasticity’s the hot new 3D modeling app – and it sure makes a mean NURBS model;
  • NURBS used to dominate computer animation, and then subdivision surfaces happened. Is it time to give them another shot?
  • How do we classify the models we make? Is it worth it?
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  • My Dad paints walls for a living. He’s been pretty damn good at it for thirty-five years.
  • Using tech to negotiate colours with the customer means you’re working under its limitations
  • DON’T PANIC – There are people out there dedicated to studying our visual system’s relationship to what we colloquially call ‘colour…’
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  • Windows 10’s EoL is only a couple years away. Migrate to Windows 11, or switch to an alternative?
  • A tale of interoperability: why we don’t need to worry so much about buying hardware as much as we worry about switching software.
  • Tomorrow’s work should get started just as easily as today’s. Interoperability helps to make that possible.
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  • For Mum, what makes a good fantasy’s a fickle thing.
  • What is fantasy, anyway? Is sci-fi really just fantasy with its back turned?
  • We could do with a ‘Fantasy for Mums’ survey. Nothing for ’em without ’em. Right?
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  • Note-taking’s a miserable task – notebooks and siloed documents in word processors aren’t the only tools at your disposal.
  • Enter Zettelkastens – a method of linking notes together, built bottom-up, by you (with some general rules).
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