Roland's Cube

I've been thinking about my yard and generating a landscaping plan the last several weeks with the warmer weather coming in. So far, I've re-mulched some areas (I have a leaf shredder which chops up the bigger leaves into nice fine mulch), trimmed the Azaleas, planted some Mountain Laurel, removed a dead Dogwood tree, and moved two Kousa Dogwood "volunteers". I need to design an overall plan so that things don't look like a shattered approach. I also like to reuse the leaves as mulch because it makes good use of the natural material and is high in nutrients. My shredder is small so this takes some time.

The scene I've done is an attempt to draw maybe Peonies or other full flower. The buds are spheres and the leaves are right prisms. I didn't add many other features.

Posted by Roland Blocksom at 09:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A slow Spring day and I can't think of much to write about today. The scene I've loaded is fairly simple and shows the use of 3D lettering. The pond is made by squashing a sphere (stretch function) and covering with water texture as I've talked about before. The 3D letters are merely stacked on the cubes. The outer ring of the pond (pool) is another squashed sphere laid on the first one and textured with the volcano texture.

Posted by Roland Blocksom at 04:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This scene reminds me of the economic situation in Education today. I don't know how other vendors are doing but we certainly aren't setting the world on fire with educational software sales. After all the obligatory software needed to run and administer school computers is purchased, there isn't much left to get students some applications that would really help them in their thinking processes. Sign of the times?
I hope not! I have more faith in the educational system than that.

The scene makes use of several pre-defined objects in the GollyGee Blocks® menu. I put the crane cab on the truck and added stretched cylinders to make the crane boom. The street comes from the shapes menu and is colored black to mimic a road.

Posted by Roland Blocksom at 08:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here is a scene developed by a young student at a Catholic School educational conference I attended several years ago. The use of the water texture is particularly interesting as it conveys a total underwater environment. It is done by putting the water texture on both the building and background planes in GollyGee Blocks®.

Posted by Roland Blocksom at 10:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)