Pinned Update #1

The Darc Library (C++) is now updated as of March, 2012. Click ▷here too browse the entire solution.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Universal Joint

Concept model and example animation of a universal joint. Note the non-linear force transmission for greater angles in the middle of the video. The error can be nullified by coupling two joints with identical angles to the intermediate shaft (cf. second video).




Friday, July 6, 2012

Turtle

Cleaning up a fossil hard disk drive so here's some space glider from 2008 that i found today.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Spider Draft

Concept design for a mechanical battle spider which will be modelled (maybe) and animated (maybe) later.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Basic Armor (2)

Another concept design for a hazmat suit including a gas mask in comparison with the previous model.

Collatz Conjecture

Please keep in mind that the length of a ▷sequence doesn't really correlate with the initial number (with the exception of certain numbers).

Number Sequence

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Smoke Volumes

A man has completed his duty.

Within the framework of my Master Thesis, I developed a tool named Smoker to analyse certain characteristics of turbulent flow. In a nutshell, it's about the real-time visualization of unsteady vector fields using a smoke volume metaphor. The following screenshots were generated using a Borromean data set.

The thesis is available ▷here in english, full length and free of charge.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Basic Armor

Concept design for a simple hazmat suit using slots for optional items and additional layers of armor.