Just finished a couple pieces inspired by Nick Campbell's Greyscalegorrila tutorial.

Made in Cinema 4D




Click on the images to visit the deviantART page

Happy Holidays everyone! May your Christmas be filled with lots of love and joy.

I have recently done some Halo themed work such as this Master Chief I rigged up and animated. Unfortunately I did not model the one featured in the video and is from hce.halomaps.org



I did take a shot at modeling a master chief as well. See the full version on deviantART




I also modeled the Battle Rifle. See the full version on deviantART:

Here is a easy to use Kmean API for favicon's of websites. This API will analyze the 16x16 favicon of the requested url and return the most prevalent color in the image.

You can read more about Kmean clustering and check out the app here.

Use:
To use the API just call the link with parameters:

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http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php
Parameters:
url: Define the url you wish to analyze

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http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php?url=http://visualpulse.net/

k (optional): number of color clusters.
Default: 3

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http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php?url=http://visualpulse.net/&k=3

ignoreExtremity (optional): Enable/Disable the ignoring of color extremities (white and black)
Default: true

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http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php?url=http://visualpulse.net/&k=3&ignoreExtremity=true
http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php?url=http://visualpulse.net/&k=3&ignoreExtremity=false

blackLevel, whiteLevel(optional): Level at which you cut off the extremities of black and white. This is the symmetric rgb equivalent (ex. rgb(10, 10, 10))
Defaults: blackLevel=10, whiteLevel=245
Max: 255
Min: 0

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http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php?url=http://visualpulse.net/&k=3&blackLevel=10&whiteLevel=245

Output
The API returns a JSON format of the data. Here is an example of the output:

Call:

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http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/api.php?url=http://visualpulse.net/&k=3

Output:

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{
"rgb": {
"r": 97,
"g": 107,
"b": 169
},
"hex": "616ba9",
"url": "visualpulse.net",
"k": 3,
"ignoreExtremity": true,
"blackLevel": 10,
"whiteLevel": 245
}


Not much new content recently but I haven't just been wasting time. I did some XNA game development stuff over the summer (running through tutorials) and I hope to have something up in the new year sometime. I have also been bitten by the electronics bug and I got my first FPGA board in September. With a FPGA you are able to code the logic to make custom circuits. I also have a project around this and this is what has been taking most of my time lately. I might have to make a electronics section to fill my strong interest in this field.

Please suggest any content you would like to see, a friendly nudge is always great encouragement to get something done.

First class has also been a little re-done. There is no longer any special perks of becoming First Class other than your name in a special color. I did not want to create content for a exclusive few and now more people benefit from any content produced. The price is $3 a month or $20 for a year and the money goes towards keeping the site up and running smoothly.

I hope everyone is having a great break from the day to day duties whether it be school or work and Happy Holidays!

- MLM

Working with SMF's SSI functions and how to make a new layout for the data that can be displayed.

Here is a 3d model I made of a simple helicopter. I am hopefully going to try to start a XNA game and use this to test in the meantime before I make a full detailed model.

I couldn't get the glass to render out transparent 

Small Video on how to make the text disappear on focus in the new Chrome.

The reason they keep the text visible on focus by default is because of auto focus on page load.

Simple Fix:

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input:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder
{
    color: transparent;
}


Visual Pulse's January 2012 Pack. Thank you to all contributors to the pack.

Go submit your psd's to next month's pack here: http://visualpulse.net/pack-submission/

Download (zip): January-PSD-Pack-2012--VisualPulse.zip
Remember all PSD's are LRO (Learning Rights Only)

Contributors:
~GoldMan
~StinkDesign
Ascentem
Danli3
Highlyred
Maximal
Momeka
Slimshadyz

Remember all PSD's are LRO (Learning Rights Only)

Go check out the app here: http://apps.visualpulse.net/kmean_chrome_color_stripe/

API:
Just created an API so you can use the algorithm in your own projects. You can read up on how to use it here.

Another 3 part tutorial on the creation of a IPB styled header for SMF.

Download PSD and Source: [LINK]

Watch Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBB830DDCB1E7C74

Preview Below...

Well, as you can see we have a brand new look to the forums. This is greatly improved look and feel compared to our last theme and hopefully a lot more clean.

It has been a long process re-doing some areas of SMF and just making sure everything is done correctly so if we can go back and make any changes easily. Thanks to the SMF Community and to Labradoodle who has helped me along the whole way.

Please post your comments down below and tell us about any bugs you find in the Suggestions Board

You can check out our new YouTube Channel design here: http://www.youtube.com/user/VisualPulseNet
And although nothing much design wise is changed, Check out our deviantART page: http://visual-pulse.deviantart.com/

Hope you guys enjoy the new theme!

Happy Holidays and hope to have the new theme up sometime during this break!

Well here is a sword I started making yesterday. This is definitely not a final on the model or materials but just thought I would get some input from you guys

Visual Pulse's October PSD Pack filled with 9 wonderful PSD's ranging from small pixel art to humongous large art pieces.

Download (zip): October-PSD-Pack-2011--VisualPulse.zip
Remember all PSD's are LRO (Learning Rights Only)

Make sure to thank all of the contributors for their great submissions 

Contributors:
ampeross
Astral-Dragon
H3Ro
MrStaz
pedroography
Whiplash
ZAKU-RED

Remember all PSD's are LRO (Learning Rights Only)