I’ve been experimenting with converting 3-dimensional surfaces into chainmail style models using Grasshopper. By creating a model that adapts to any 4-sided polyline, and applying that model to each face of a 3-dimensional quad mesh, a repeating, parametric pattern can be generated. If that model had “links” that lined up between cells (meshes), then a chainmail model would result.

One of the things that has always bothered me with a Mac is that screenshots are saved to the desktop by default. Very quickly, the desktop starts getting messy. It would be great if you could save those screenshots somewhere else, or if that’s not possible, monitor the Desktop folder and move them when they appear. In recent versions of the screenshot software, you can in fact, change the default location, but previously we had to lean on one of the little known, but awesome Mac…

We’ve had some pretty serious weather in Australia so far this year with crazy amounts of rain and several bouts of flooding. One of the places we can go for information about what’s happening is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website, and if you have a bit of an explore around the webpage, you’ll find lots of useful information and charts. One of the drawbacks though is that you need to navigate around to get to all the charts that are of interest. Wouldn’t it…