Blogs

Return to Cradle Mountain

Revenge of the PhD student. Or something.

travel

Cosmology on Safari

How all conferences should be run!

travel

Setting up a scientific python environment

A super short guide to quickly setting up a viable python environment.

tutorial

Hidden Treasure

Another play with rigid bodies, this time adding in some slow motion!

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The Tower of Two Blocks

A basic KEVA simulation showing the different effects of two block materials.

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Solar System Size Scale

To learn about Blender's compositing I decided to go all dramatic in an very astronomical way.

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Gas Explosion

From rigid body sims to smoke sims, Blender is growing on me!

creative

Coloured Smoke

Playing around with attributes to see what weird stuff I can do!

creative

Glowing Galton Board

Wanted to get some experience with Blender, this seemed like a good way!

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Desert Caves Map

Because at some point you need to include lava.

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Desert Camp Map

Round Two... Fight!

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Desert Canyon Map

For a desert campaign, you always need another map!

creative

Making Taipan's Logo

In all its serpentine glory

science

What is OzDES?

Less science, more art.

science

Visiting Chicago

Thank you DES.

travel

Making a utility knife

Because going to the shops is too easy.

hardware

Making bismuth crystals

Because it's more time intensive and expensive than buying the crystals themselves!

creative

Making a Moon Mosaic

UK and Australia combined, our powers are data reduction.

science

Japan Winter Holiday

Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakuba, Sapporo and Otaru

travel

Additive Blending in Matplotlib

A short tutorial on additive blending using matplotlib and numpy.

tutorial

LBNL - California

LA, San Francisco, Berkeley and Yosemite.

travel

Get Lit; Atlassian Ship-It

A weekend hackathon down at Atlassian, to make an academic search engine.

science

Gemini - La Serena, Chile

AGUSS Studentship to Chile over the summer.

travel

Kubo Oscillator

In the computational physics class I took we investigated the Kubo Oscillator. Some of the plots are nice.

science

Overland Track - Tasmania

Hiking the Overland Track.

travel

European Holiday

England, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and more.

travel

The Most Useless Machine

Now with a use: birthday present denial.

hardware

Mood Bottle

The best gift is a hand made one. Hence some hand made mood lighting!

hardware

The Blue Planet

First attempt at photoshop to create an image without stock images.

creative

Lightning Strike

First attempt at photoshop stock manipulation.

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