Monthly Archives: February 2007

Big D.I.Y. Egg

2007-02-28 – 06:57

bbum’s blog was my first online encounter with the Big Green Egg. Recently he referenced a similar concept, but D.I.Y. instead of purchased. It’s a Terra Cotta Smoker similar to Alton Brown’s, but designed to burn hardwood charcoal instead of using an electric hot plate. The neat thing about this one is I’ve either already […]

By frank | Posted in D.I.Y. | Comments (1)

QuickTime, Texturing, and OpenGL

2007-02-26 – 18:42

The movies I’ve examined don’t have an alpha channel so I’m using RGB and it works fine.

// Create an off-screen gworld where QT can draw
gworldBuffer = calloc(width * height * 3, 1);
QTNewGWorldFromPtr(&gworld, k24RGBPixelFormat, &movieBox, NULL, NULL, 0,
gworldBuffer, movieBox.right * 3);
gworldPixMap = GetGWorldPixMap(gworld);
LockPixels(gworldPixMap);
gworldPixBase = GetPixBaseAddr(gworldPixMap);

And then later on when I want to render to the texture:

// […]

By frank | Posted in Gaming and virtual environments, Software development | Comments (0)

Not Turkey Creek

2007-02-20 – 12:29

And not quite Wine Creek, either.
My neighbor and I went on our first mountain bike ride in quite some time. I really enjoy it every time I go, but for some reason my perceived effort from desire to ride to actually riding seems higher with mountain biking than with road biking. That’s partially due […]

By frank | Posted in Cycling | Comments (0)

Great grandma Mac, Andrea, Elizabeth and Elena

2007-02-11 – 08:58

By frank | Posted in Photoblog | Comments (0)

No photoshop? Batch workflows no problem!

2007-02-04 – 09:40

I’ve been helping my mom out a bit lately with the website for her artwork, Voice of Flying Ink. It includes a few galleries of her works in a simple table of thumbnails layout. It’s reasonable that occasionally she’ll want to put up some new pictures, which involes scaling and padding the original to two […]

By frank | Posted in Software development | Comments (0)