tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-254434952012-01-31T07:03:14.741+08:00Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-42700150606318822582009-08-22T21:56:00.003+08:002009-08-22T22:00:37.519+08:00

though I use MEL less and less this day, it's still nice to have some solution for some problem, like the one below.If you want to round a float to nearest integer in python, just use round(4.33) . But we don't have round function in MEL. so we need to do some workaround. I found below technique in Maya Station blog :float $float = 3.14159265;floor ( $float + 0.5 );// Result: 3

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-49105572746237310842009-04-08T23:13:00.003+08:002009-04-09T17:32:15.008+08:00

When you need to post multiple-line source codes(mel,C,python,whatever)..you need the exact format as in your code editor because it'll look much tidier. But if you paste the code here in the standard blogger post editor, it'd look as ugly as you can imagine. So I search the net the found this site (also a blogger site):http://formatmysourcecode.blogspot.com/Basically you just need to paste the

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-11588401049354933412009-03-14T18:04:00.001+08:002009-03-14T18:05:58.738+08:00

About six years ago, just graduated from high school, I was deeply obsessed with Kiyosaki's words. The most important thing seemed to be making quick money, then retire early and enjoy the "free life". But at that time, I had no idea and clear plan of how to quickly become rich and financial independent, aside from the abstract idea like "investing","leverage","make the money multiplies itself",

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-74628643241582273992009-02-01T13:01:00.000+08:002009-02-01T13:02:24.636+08:00

This is the rendered image of my latest personal works, mainly to practice my modeling, texturing, and rendering skills. No fancy stuff, I'm just trying to create a realistic image.Description : A mask accidentally dropped on the street. He's not considered a valuable item, so nobody cared about him, and he gradually became dirty, and useless, ready to be thrown into trashcan..software used :

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-60403416586316015482008-12-04T17:12:00.002+08:002008-12-04T17:22:53.601+08:00

Here's an interesting article about the logos of some of the big Hollywood studios, including Dreamworks SKG, Paramount Pictures, MGM, etc. Some interesting notes:1. Warner Bros. (yes, that's legally "Bros." not "Brothers") was founded by four Jewish brothers who emigrated from Poland: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner.2.The original logo of Paramount had 24 stars, which

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-70409859359072595282008-11-22T18:36:00.004+08:002008-11-23T00:25:15.834+08:00

Many people at work asked me :why do you want to study and work here (Taipei/Taiwan), and not in your own country(Indonesia). For me it's a trivial question. For almost every aspect I care about, Taipei just won comfortably. Let me explain some of them:1. Public security is much better here (though my bicycle just got stolen some days ago,what an irony lol ). I feel safe walking in this city

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-86840644159084982612008-11-13T15:26:00.002+08:002008-11-13T15:52:31.294+08:00

I've published a mel script to split polygon by vertex/edge selection in Highend3d. I called it rainConnector. The tool works by connecting selected edges/ vertices. It's especially useful when the model is in smooth mode (maya 2008 & 2009). The usual split polygon doesn't work in this mode, and it makes splitting polygon difficult to do. But using rainConnector, you can easily connect the

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-14655118498961611762008-09-18T10:51:00.004+08:002008-09-18T11:37:48.359+08:00

Really being tired of fixing displacement maps these days. Especially when the broken pixels are on the seams, then I'm hopeless, really. No software can do 32-bit realtime preview on mesh currently, let alone painting the seams. And Mudbox2009 is no exception. But what I hope is that MB09 is able to produce much better disp maps than previous version. And it's released on Oct 6th. So I guess

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-30074744075661346142008-09-15T22:46:00.002+08:002008-09-15T23:13:53.496+08:00

I have 9 months prior to contract expiry, and currently I'm not sure whether the Taiwan regulation still allows me to continue working here, and if so, whether Digimax does enough effort to keep me in. Thus, I need to accumulate as much experience as possible for my portfolio later, if I really screwed up here.First thing is actually be familiar with basic to advanced rigging and animation, since

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-46472216561142416622008-08-21T09:41:00.003+08:002008-08-21T10:39:31.132+08:00

Mudbox 2009 is scheduled to be released by Autodesk in October 2008. From the information in Area forum, here I conclude some of the notable features :1. An ability to match or even surpass Zbrush3.1 in terms of polycount. It is said that mudbox will be able to handle tens of million polygons easily. It means that the performance will be increased by tenfold at least from current version (1.0.7)

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-90030556361784528472008-08-20T17:13:00.002+08:002008-08-20T17:22:14.903+08:00

Two weeks ago I have released the ABF++ unwrap plugin, which is ported from Blender, and I called it Zebruv (Zebra+UV). The file can be downloaded at highen3d .Currently I'm still not that satisfied with the result from Zebruv, compared to Roadkill or Blender one. It seems that there's parameter called "fill holes" that makes the result much better. I'll try to dig into the codes later when I

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-86902009616099527192008-08-06T08:58:00.002+08:002008-08-06T09:17:14.046+08:00

Finally I have finished a stable version of ABF++ unwrapping plugin for Maya. The result isn't disappointing, but it's still not a 'wowing' tool yet. But it does a good job for most UVing purpose.Here's the screen shot of my tool (call it dgJustUV for now, I'm planning to choose a better name for him, lol).I really hope to be allowed to released this plugin for public (in highend3d), so this

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-73746917085043893702008-07-18T08:49:00.002+08:002008-07-18T09:06:04.424+08:00

Two days ago Autodesk (finally) released a performance preview of Mudbox Dali, or officially named Mubox 2009. From the demo video we can see a lot of performance improvement especially from polycount wise by almost tenfold I think. Also the realtime lighting and shading could be a nice plus, although not that essential. We do not need to many polycount,around 10 million should be sufficient(for

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-49551700567790725292008-07-12T18:58:00.003+08:002008-07-12T19:19:14.358+08:00

This Saturday is officially the first time I worked "overtime" at Digimax. It's not that bad actually. We got pizza treat, and I had free access to PC and air conditioning, which I would turn on in home anyway. Besides, Now I have 8 hours free time to spend on the other days. So yeah, it's not a bad exchange at all.But I think I had to postpone my project on UV unwrapping. It's on alpha stage

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-17864329211346003652008-07-04T19:59:00.003+08:002008-07-04T20:11:18.814+08:00

Recently i have been busy writing some tools for Maya. For current time i have 2 projects in hand:1. Animation baking.2. ABF unwrap plugin.Hopefully I should be able to finish both in a month.I think I'll release the UV plug-in for public use, since some of the codes are taken from other softwares such as Blender.

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-61282112214439658362008-06-30T13:09:00.003+08:002008-06-30T13:42:10.137+08:00

Finally Euro 2008 ends, and with excitement (at least for me). Though i'm not a hardcore fan of Spain NT, but i'm happy that they win, since there are some players I enjoyed watching like Cesc, David Silva, and David Villa. In fact, I think they fully deserved to win this cup, since they played with full confidence from start to end. But there's some nervous moments in the final match when they

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-41514647459967417262008-06-29T20:45:00.003+08:002008-06-29T22:34:44.067+08:00

It's really shitty that football is so unpopular in here (Taiwan), such that there's no live coverage of Euro 2008, one of the most popular event in the world in this month. All they're showing on TV are baseball, baseball, and baseball. My Goodness!!The Taiwan people here adore New York Yankee like it's their national team. And it's all just because one of the players is coming from Taiwan.

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-55486756071776697852008-06-28T19:56:00.001+08:002008-06-28T20:48:20.676+08:00

wow, it seems that i've stopped posting on this blog for almost a year. Well, i'm now in mood to start over again LOL.First, Blizzard has announced its new game to be DIABLO III ! i'm very excited right now. Haven't played any game lately, the last game i played was in fact Diablo II, some months back!The Blizzard site is very lagged right now, so I couldn't check the gameplay. But hope that it

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-39676284427509018452007-09-11T13:32:00.000+08:002007-09-11T13:51:07.348+08:00

Here I found a very interesting pictures of comparison between earth and other planets/stars.Although it is common knowlodge, i'm still astonished to find out how small earth is compared to the whole universe.Here's the pictures(don't drop your jaws, you have been warned!)The smaller planets compared to the EarthSmaller planets compared to JupiterPlanets compared to the SunSun compared to

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-3731196306491186162007-08-20T21:28:00.000+08:002007-08-20T21:36:03.750+08:00

A much debated issue here(taiwan), yet the term 瘦肉精 is very unintuitive. After searching for a while, i finally found that it is actually called Ractopamine. Here's some explanation of this chemistry term, taken from wikipedia:Ractopamine is a drug that is used as a feed additive to promote leanness in pigs raised for their meat. The feed additive Paylean®, produced by the U.S. company Elanco

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-61769793524353895432007-08-14T17:51:00.001+08:002007-08-14T17:52:44.785+08:00

I have been assigned as modeling TD today. So now i need to be very capable of manipulating maya's modeling tools. Hope that i can give some contribution to the team!!

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-68097329757065498292007-08-13T17:45:00.000+08:002007-08-13T17:53:42.855+08:00

I have made a target for myself. Three years from now, i must submit a paper to SIGGRAPH! Whether it is accepted or not isn't a problem. At least i have to try.The process should be like this:First year for understanding maths behind the previous papers.Second year for reviewing the existing papers. Third year for writing the paper itself.I know it's pretty demanding task given my lack of depth

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-71552302333340043212007-08-08T11:55:00.001+08:002007-08-09T17:10:40.230+08:00

After playing a while with maya, i decide to render a satisfying image.This image was rendered with maya renderer, using scene from 3DRender.com, and the 'pitiful' shrek picture was taken from tx.technion.ac.il using google image search.Click on the image to see the full-size one.

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-64401079534306648902007-08-07T17:19:00.000+08:002007-08-07T17:32:43.089+08:00

1. MAYA and MELThis software's complexity is tremendous, and the learning curve is quite steep. But if learned properly, it is a very powerful tool.2. RSLCombined with maya, they can produce the most realistic images available now. So it's also essential tool to be mastered.3.PythonPowerful, easy-to-learn, easy-to-read, this is the must-have scripting language.In the future:4.Advanced Computer

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-51228524258735927432007-08-04T13:57:00.000+08:002007-08-04T14:03:22.679+08:00

source link: another blogIf u want to download from MegaUpload, yet u don't prefer to install the toolbar first,here is a way to bypass it:Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 tweak: Go to address bar and type about:config . Press enterLook for general.useragent.extra.firefox using the filter and double click on itChange the default text with this: Firefox/2.0.0.5 MEGAUPLOAD 1.0if u use IE 6 or 7, go to the

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-2687801171082134462007-07-22T14:22:00.001+08:002009-02-07T23:22:49.244+08:00

if u want to free urself from using illegal softwares, and wanna try anotheroperating system beside the crash-all-the-time windows XP, i recommend usingubuntu (most popular linux distro for desktop).some pros and cons compared to windows XP, (based on my own experience)pros:1. no need for antivirus, which eat considerable amount of memory and CPU time2. major update twice a year, to encompass the

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-43259386271666578572007-07-07T14:18:00.000+08:002007-07-07T14:29:46.274+08:00

I've moved into a new room after graduated from NTU. Actually i had the option to stay in dorm until September, but i refused it since i old dorm is under renovation, and i had to move to another dorm just for 2 months. So here i am, at my new "home".Pros:- It's located in downtown and close to night market, so it's very convenient.- Finally it's MY OWN ROOM, so more privacy.- Almost all i need

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-20259714315603221192007-07-07T14:08:00.000+08:002007-07-07T14:17:28.942+08:00

Finally i'm graduated from NTU!But I've grown to love this uni and especially my department, CSIE. The staff and teachers there are very nice, also my classmates are nice ones. Very recommended major and department for someone who want to study here.Here's the pics of my graduation sertificates in English and Chinese:englishchinese

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-72817562173470592422007-05-31T10:54:00.000+08:002007-05-31T12:37:03.863+08:00

....if your diskspace is low, because it takes up considerable space. In my PC, the index file size is about 1 GB + . I thought i would be much smaller, but maybe google puts something more into its indexing algorithm so that the size grows bigger. But on the other hand, the search time is definitely faster than native windows XP searching program, so it's still worth the cost.Anyway, since most

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-90047938265952541792007-05-30T15:02:00.000+08:002007-05-30T15:08:39.064+08:00

lately, i was approached by Asus, Quanta, and some others, and i have rejected the chances to have an interview = =". Hopefully my decisions are right ones, and the work permit for digimax can be solved immediately. Otherwise maybe i have to call them again to ask for interview =.=

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-44299000939231908442007-05-30T13:28:00.001+08:002007-05-30T13:38:48.296+08:00

I find a good website that teach me how to compute a barycentric coordinate of point P in the triangle T(v0,v1,v2). The formula can also be used to find is whether the P is inside T, which is the problem i want to solve.Here is the link to the full explanation.In short, the formula is like this:u = V1-V0;v = V2-V0;w = P-V0;The parametric coordinates (s,t) of P is the solution of the equation: w

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-34100203239616691282007-05-28T19:43:00.000+08:002007-05-28T19:49:46.089+08:00

剛看了康熙某一集，邀請了一些在卷村長大的藝人．感覺真的很像我的家鄉，雖然我沒他們慘，但還是有那種ｆｅｅｌｉｎｇ．希望以後有出頭了也可以給我的家鄉一些貢獻!

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-70135070681626853632007-05-28T16:57:00.001+08:002007-05-29T13:47:46.896+08:00

規定也太多了吧!! 真的很不合理!連電話費都要著名是打給誰的,然後工作人員交接加減也要報告給他們,我覺得社會局根本就沒有信任這概念.我們有不是拿這些錢來做生意,是在幫災民呢!!海嘯是2004年發生的,現在已經2007年了.我想如果捐款者知道他們捐出來的前三年過後還呆在社會局帳戶裡,會很氣吧!這樣捐款的benefit 就沒了.老闆也一樣不合理.問題這麼嚴重了還不想直接下手,一直叫根本沒什麼經驗的人去處理,然後又希望趕快弄好.還說什麼 " 你已經要進入社會了" ,我有不是去做行政的工作,我是寫程式的勒!!咳,不想管那麼多了,反正先把薪水要來吧.

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-39383392903235965652007-05-14T23:23:00.000+08:002007-05-14T23:43:03.186+08:00

Here is my newest rendering of translucent material using PBRT. The rendering time is quite slow, about 2000 seconds using P4 with 768MB RAM.I am quite satisfied with the result. But maybe i need to add more surface reflection to make it more jade-like.

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-3501416113782213592007-05-13T00:38:00.000+08:002007-05-13T00:40:23.293+08:00

can you learn to be classy?

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-17795123256109121552007-05-10T14:52:00.000+08:002007-05-10T15:00:03.983+08:00

This was my VFx assignment #2. We're supposed to combine multiple images into one panorama image. Here is one of my better results: For the full-size image you can go here:http://r4inm4ker.m3.ntu.edu.tw/ok2.jpg

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-78382502989577352222007-04-17T13:58:00.000+08:002007-04-17T14:58:06.871+08:00

the story is somewhat similar to "Night at the Museum" comedy, but it's full CG movie. I just saw the trailer some days ago, and i was impressed as it is (IMO) as good as most of the current US CG movies.Here's the trailer.

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-9953948944923050072007-04-13T13:44:00.000+08:002007-04-13T14:18:58.197+08:00

Cyy sent us a link to a very good article about the importance of writing. I paste some of the interesting content: 「我的朋友叫張懷恩他是我難亡的朋友他有很多很多專長他的專長是跑步跑很快、跳遠跳的很遠很遠、打電腦長長說有什麼遊ㄒ一ˋ他知道很多很的遊ㄒㄧˋ他很短可以他很跑很快的。老師一定有ㄧˊ問說：「他為什麼是我最今我難亡的朋友我也不知道我知道我跟他跟我是很好很的朋友所以他是令我難亡的朋友。」這是桃園某小學五年級學生作文：「我最難忘的朋友」，這篇作文沒有標點，錯字多，內容顯得空洞貧乏、毫無思路可言。但這個小朋友是來自中產家庭，他也是民國九十年，政府推動「九年一貫」教育改革，降低國語課時數後的「產物」。 Here's the link for you who's

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-17708095359485324492007-04-13T09:25:00.000+08:002007-04-13T09:39:09.568+08:00

昨天去面試了第二次,跟R&D主管 chris 聊了一下(大部分跟工作無關 =.=").雖然薪水起跳有點低,但相信我一定會學到很多有趣的東西.我覺得還是很直得啦.好比在我沒什麼興趣的公司工作,雖然有較多錢可以拿但感覺也沒什麼意義 . 七月開始工作,非常期待呢!!

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-24997514262141444902007-04-07T17:52:00.000+08:002007-04-07T18:01:05.690+08:00

After unsuccessfully simulating jade's appereance last semester, i try to improve my codes now.Here's the current result:I will try to improve my formula to create a better one as i am also working to implement multi-layered subsurface scattering for translucent materials.I will try my best to match the results from original paper's authors. The images below were linked from http://

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-85245343653829862732007-04-07T17:36:00.000+08:002007-04-07T17:51:10.126+08:00

My first assignment on Geometric Modeling was about subdivision surfaces. I implemented Loop's algorithm, and work on VC7 using CGAL library. Most of the time on this assignment i was dealing with how to work with the library, since i found it very confusing = =" (not the library's fault though). I also use some of the code from PBRT for counting the vertices' weights.Here's the result of my

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25443495.post-67943553591043429972007-04-07T17:26:00.000+08:002007-04-07T17:34:16.725+08:00

For the n-th times,  i start all over for this blog. Hopefully this time i can fill it with interesting stuffs!! ^ ^Some weeks ago, i finished my first assignment on Digital Visual Effects about High Dynamic Range (HDR) images creation. I use Paul Debevec method for this assignment. Anyway, here's the results :It's still not very satisfying, partly because i didn't take enough pictures and my

Jefri Haryononoreply@blogger.com0