Author: eigenbom

I started my PhD research in March 2007, over 3 years ago. It’s been a long, strange, and lonely journey, but it’s almost done! I’m on the last stretch now, and hopefully will have submitted my thesis in 4-6 months. Here’s my latest simulation and it is typical of the kind of result I have for my thesis. Not quite what I had in mind when I started, but this part of my life needs to end soon and I have to move on to the next thing. : )

A growing tentacled thing in a box. from Benjamin Porter on Vimeo.
More geometric morphogenesis.

I have moved my website to a new location: bp.io (because it’s oh so cool to have really tiny urls and means that I need only remember 4 characters — the limits of my memory.) This blog also has a new location: blog.bp.io.

I’m closing the cema daily blog today. My original idea was to publish results from a half hour experiment per week from the crew at cema (my research group), but, like all things, this idea suffered from entropy and the few things become one thing, and then half a thing, and now no things. I’d like to thank the cema people for helping with this experiment (especially Taras who contributed a third of the posts!)

In retrospect, I think that the idea applies more to my own personal development than something I could impose on others. Here’s a collage of the contributions I made to that blog — my highlights were: the ben scribble, the hierarchical voronoi space partition, the dandelion, and the random city. My experiments in gfx/code will continue but I will post them here instead of there.

From Misc

I updated my website (http://users.on.net/~eigenbom/) yet again. I removed the tag system I was using and cleaned up the design a bit. I’m making space for the upcoming alpha release of my generative form software.

My research is reaching its apex. There are only a few months left on my candidature, and then I will be free. Here’s an organism I cooked up last night. Baked for 15 hours on roughly 200 degrees. I call it “Aidan’s Flu”.

Hearken: Object lost, big reward! Click to embiggen!

2010. Finally! The future is here! I’ve been waiting for so long. Here’s the first picture I have made this year. Using Blender and LuxRender with pretty much the default settings. Ah, instant masterpieces at the click of a button.

Hi all, been super busy lately, working towards a deadline in early Jan! Been simulating like crazy, my latest result is below. Have a good break everyone, I won’t be posting until late Jan. Seeya!

Starfish on a rock from Benjamin Porter on Vimeo.

Growing 3d geometry.

A biological & physical simulation causes the form to grow within the specified environment (on top of the rock). Rendered with Blender.

orange tentacle (2) from Benjamin Porter on Vimeo.

Simulated growth of a tentacle with gravity.

A (glitch?) causes the tentacle to attach to the ceiling after some amount of time.

Rendered with Blender.

Green 4prong from Benjamin Porter on Vimeo.