Max Williams

I did a couple of models for Café de Beignet. Oh look; here they are:

A bag:

Some doughnuts:

I couple of models I made for The Muse.

Leather Bag – ~2500 quads, 1024×1024 map.

Park Bench – ~900 quads, 1024×1024 map.

You can see slightly larger images on my Deviantart page.

I had a go at modelling an environment shot based on some concept work by Adam.

Modelled in Blender, textures made in Photoshop.

Modelling a bike…

I made a widget. It displays the Thelemic date, using information downloaded from the Thelemic Timeserver. Download it and have a look; it’s nice. That embossed effect was done by having two text-shadows; a light one below and a dark one above.

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Here’s a lizard for you to look at (linked to my newly-created, still pretty empty deviantART page):

Modelled, of course, using Blender. I was playing with the subsurf tool, and it made it surprisingly easy. It was the first time I’d used it, and if you haven’t played with it I suggest you do. Here’s the mesh that resulted in the final thing:

Oh, and here: have some tiling wallpapers based on the same guy.

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I’ve made a Dashboard widget. It’s a version 0.5 beta, so right now it’s really more of a tech demo. You can download it, but it’s going to be totally rewritten for version 1.0.

It’s purpose is to store searches while you’re offline, so that next time you connect to the internet you can open them one at a time, or all at once in separate tabs or windows.

Its coolest feature is that it supports “space triggers”, inspired by tab triggers in TextMate. So you can type g and press space, and it’ll display Google’s favicon to show you that the search terms you enter will be passed to Google. It has a number of others; Yahoo, Wikipedia, Google images, Flickr, imdb, Amazon, Youtube etc.

I plan to extend this a lot before v1.0, to allow you to add arguments and more complex searches and so on. Kinda similar to YubNub, but easier to use and with the emphasis on caching searches to visit later.

Here’s a quick “how-to use”:

1. Expand it and double-click it to install it in the Dashboard
2. Hover over the widget and click the info button to reveal a list of triggers
3. Switch back to the front, type a trigger into the search field and press space
4. If it recognised the trigger, the search field should now contain an icon representing the search URL
5. Now enter your search query and press return. The search will be added to the list above.
6. Click the link to open it in your browser. Notice it goes dim to show that you’ve visited it.
7. To open all unvisited links at once, click the arrow button in the corner of the widget.
8. To clear the search cache (remove all links), press the button in the corner marked with a cross.
9. To remove individual links, click the button marked with a cross next to the link in question.
10. To resize the widget, use the resize handle on the back (press the info button)

Adding customised and localised search protocols is definitely planned for version 1.0, but for now the only way to do that is to edit the sites.js file inside the widget’s bundle.

There are a few bugs in this release (for starters, it should scroll to the bottom of the list when you add a search and it doesn’t), but it’s so poorly written at the moment that I can’t ever see myself fixing them. Version 1.0 will be the one that gets big fixes and so on. This is just a toy, really.

Feel free to make feature requests in the comments, but have a look at the planned changes for version 1.0 first.

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