![]() In this tutorial, we will learn how to draw a flower anemone. ![]() With just a few supplies, you’ll have an original piece that will bring warmth and beauty to any space. This is a fun and easy way to create one-of-a-kind paintings that can be hung anywhere in your home. Whether you are looking for a unique addition to your home decor, or a quick project to make during your lunch break, this is the project for you. This mixed-media tutorial shows how to create a realistic daffodil drawing with pencils and watercolor paper. You'll be surprised how easily they can follow along while creating a beautiful piece of art. Daffodil Pencil DrawingĪre you looking for an art project that is easy and fun for your kids? Follow this unique pencil drawing idea to make great and unique additions to your home decor. It will be a great masterpiece for adding a touch of uniqueness to your home decor, and I hope you'll love it. This flower looks very easy to draw, and kids can easily try it by following these simple steps. Daisy Flower Pencil DrawingĪ unique Daisy Flower pencil drawing design would allow you to develop your talents in drawing and painting and add a modern touch of design to your home decor. This pencil drawing makes a great gift idea for all occasions and can be framed to give it an official look and feel. It can also be used as a gift for someone you know who enjoys art or to treat yourself to something special. This particular design will be a great masterpiece for adding a touch of uniqueness to your home decor. This Lily Flower Pencil Drawing is handcrafted by a talented artist skilled in pencil drawings. This illustration is sure to be a favorite wherever it's hung. This unique piece of art for gifting purposes is also perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, and valentine's day. This drawing can be framed and best viewed on your wall, beside your bed or sofa. The Tulip Flower Pencil Drawing is a true loveable addition to your home decor. Follow this step-by-step process guide to create an eye-catching decoration that will add a touch of spring fun to any room in your house. It has an easy-to-follow step-by-step process that can be completed in less than 15 minutes. The finished product is sure to impress while being easy on the eyes and wallet. This project idea, called Draw Spring Flowers, is a fun way to personalize your home. So browse through the following tips and ideas to learn how to make perfect drawings in no time! Follow these easy steps to make your own Lotus Flower Pencil Drawing and add a touch of elegance to your home decor. It's an ideal project for beginners who want to try something new, and as they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words". Lotus Flower Pencil Drawingįollow this easy and step-by-step Lotus Flower Pencil Drawing tutorial to create a simple yet incredibly attractive and complex-looking flower. You may find easy tutorials to create your pieces, then use your new skills to decorate your teen’s room with cute arrangements and creative masterpieces. Kids love to draw flowers, and there are great websites to learn how to draw different flowers like roses, sunflowers, daisies, and other beautiful blooms. ![]() Whether you're a beginner or an advanced artist, there's something here for everyone! Flower Pencil Drawing Ideasĭrawing a flower picture can be easy and fun if you know the type of flower you are interested in drawing. ![]() These ideas will help you create beautifully realistic flower pencil drawing and paintings that are fun and simple. Follow these easy steps to learn to draw flowers at home. Learn how to draw simple flowers, beautiful blooms with stalks and leaves, or even more advanced designs using step-by-step video tutorials from top artists. Rubbing, smudging and partial erasure of lines and shadow can help to make the drawing feel more ‘organic’ and dark 3B pencils will help you to make the most of the darker areas of any sketch.Flowers are colorful and stunning to draw, but they can also be difficult. ![]() Use the shadow and tone to help create the effect. Folds in the leaves and the overlap of petals will help you create depth in the drawing. Looking carefully at how the light affects the tones you can start to create depth and 3-dimensinality in your drawing much more easily. When you are happy with the basic shape of the initial sketch, you can begin to add the more subtle shapes within the flowers. Breaking the image down into small, manageable and simple sections, means the sketch will start to come to life really quickly. Simplified minimalist drawings can be very striking. As you can see from the sketches, a drawing doesn’t need to be complicated to be good. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you’ve determined your fuse is not blown and your keypad is working but you still have a problem with your lighting or fan circuits, you will probably have to replace the module entirely. This also might be a good time to make sure the contacts in the keypad are clean and dusting it or blowing some compressed air on there. ![]() If these are out of place, you can use a little piece of tape to put them back. You will see little metal domes that are what you press to activate the switch. Then, remove two screws holding the keypad to the switch junction box and make sure nothing falls out as you flip the cover plate. Just take the keypad off the wall and use a small screwdriver to remove the face plate. ![]() If you’ve checked your fuse is intact, you can try opening the keypad to see if the issue is with the buttons themself. If you’re still having problems with your dimmer or relay, it could be a problem with the circuit of the module itself, the programming in the CCU or a mechanical component of keypad. The 8-channel dimmer uses a 15A slow-blow fuse and the 8-channel relay uses a 12A fuse. If it doesn’t turn on, you can replace the fuse, try the DIP switches and the button to see if this fixes your issue. Once you flip a DIP switch you will see the LED next to the DIP switch turns on if your fuse is okay. You will see appropriate labels for the dimmer channel from which you will flipping to test if the circuit works. Once you open it you will typically see 4 modules, find the correct module and locate the DIP switches on the far left of that module. Then open the correct panel that has the right lighting module inside of it. Use the manual to locate the light circuit and it’s installation location an dpanel. Start by finding your LiteTouch automation manual and use either a small flat head screwdriver or some tweezers to flip DIP switches. If you’re pressing a button on the keypad and nothing is happening then you can begin troubleshooting the fuse. A common but easily fixable issue with LiteTouch systems is a blown fuse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Igniter needs to be cleaned fairly often.Depending on where you live, this could be more expensive than gas or charcoal. Briqs cost around $4 - $8 each and need to be ordered from Spark.At $1,099 for the basic grill package, this is not a cheap grill.But mostly I just like that this thing cooks my food well more or less every time, with very little guesswork or room for human error, while I drink a spritz and chill outside. It's gas but with the taste of charcoal it's charcoal but with the ease of gas. Now I live in a place with a back patio, and since getting a Spark grill last summer, I’ve realized just how much I’ve come to rely on it-and even enjoy cooking on it. At friends’ houses and Airbnbs, gas canisters seemed to always run out as soon as the food hit the grill-with no backup in sight. If you had asked me to describe “the flavor of charcoal” I would say “burnt,” and I could not tell you what was so convenient about gas. Which is all to say, I was not out here looking for a Spark grill, a Bluetooth-enabled “smart grill” that promises the flavor of charcoal with the convenience of gas. Meanwhile I moved from a college dorm room to a series of airless NYC apartments, where the closest I got to grilling was roasting my ass on some fire escape grates. I was in college by the time my parents bought a little Weber, which sat in the garage and got wheeled out for the occasional burger night. I grew up in the suburbs with a backyard-but no grill in sight. I’ve added some documentation on how to track changes in the development branch.Before I became a Spark Grill person, I was not a Grill Person at all. ![]() The “develop” branch is already moving ahead:Īs you can see, it’s all made up of “briqs” which can be added and enabled as needed. Let’s see how it evolves, and please do comment and hack on it if you are interested. Which is all a long-winded way of saying that HouseMon is still in its very early stages. There is currently very little error checking and error messages can (will!) be cryptic. Part of the process is getting to grips with complexity: multiple sensor values per reading, “de-multiplexing” different types of packets from the ookRelay, mapping node ID’s to locations, ignoring some repeated data which contains no extra information, and more real-world messiness… This diagram is still too complicated for my tastes. ![]() The dotted lines indicate that logged and archived data is being saved but not used yet (logged data is the raw incoming text from serial interfaces, etc – archived data is per-sensor information, aggregated hourly). Here’s an attempt to map out what’s in the 0.5.x release: There seems to be no other way to go through this than just bite bullet, get a basic release out in the wild, and see how it holds up when installed in more places. I suspect that this project will lead to more questions than answers at this stage, but I guess that’s what you get when following the “release early, release often” approach of open source software. After that, all web accesses will be a lot snappier than in development mode.īut let’s not get ahead of ourselves… tons of work to do before HM becomes useful! To get an idea of the true performance on a Raspberry Pi, you should start up as follows (make sure HouseMon is not running already): cd ~/housemon & SS_ENV=production node app.js – this’ll take a few minutes while SocketStream combines and “minifies” everything the first time around. Note that the instructions so far were all about development. It feels a bit odd to give this piece a software a version number, since it’s all so early still, but I’m releasing it as HouseMon 0.5.1 anyway, to set a baseline for future development. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to choose a power bank What is a power bank?Ī power bank is a portable electronic device that can transfer power from its built-in battery to other devices. It's frequently in and out of stock on Amazon, but keep an eye on our live pricing widgets for stock updates. Be aware, though, that this is the heaviest model on our list, and one of the most expensive. The massive capacity and multiple ports make this an ideal power bank for a trip with colleagues who'll need to charge their devices at the same time, or if you simply have a lot of devices yourself. However if you have a laptop from Fujitsu, Sony, Acer, Asus, IBM, Dell, HP, NEC, Samsung or Lenovo then you're good to go. Sadly, though, it won't charge a MacBook, which could rule out this power bank for many creatives. It's also versatile, with six ports letting you charge almost everything at once. And with a huge 50,000mAh on offer, the Maxoak Power Bank is certainly packed with that. The thing most people are looking for in a power bank is, well, power. For now, let's look at the best power banks for your tech. If you're looking for some extra storage for your devices, we also have a list of our top picks for the best external hard drives. If you're a creative on the go wanting to further improve your artistic talents, we have a guide to the best video editing software available right now. Each entry also details live prices so you can see any current active deals. ![]() Our below list is sectioned into two main sections: the best power banks in the UK and the best power banks in the US, but most options should be available wherever you're based. If you're still unsure about the details of power banks and what exactly they do, scroll down to the bottom of this page to find a handy breakdown of frequently asked questions. Our below list clearly details the differences between each product including battery capacity, power ports and physical size to help you pick as well as some pros and cons. But with so many varying features, price points and brands it can get confusing when choosing what will be the best power bank for you. Most power banks are very similar in theory: they all supply power to another device once charged. ![]() ![]() Ro says she especially likes the pocket in the front with cardholders, which lets her grab her credit card without having to dig. “What makes it convenient for baby use is what makes it great for everyday life: Everything you need is easily accessible, and it’s small enough to not get in the way,” she adds. Material: Vegan leather | Closure: Buckle closure | Strap length: 33–49 inchesĪfter being sent this diaper bag–fanny pack combo by Kibou last April, it has become Strategist senior writer Lauren Ro’s “go-to.” While it’s technically meant to act as a compact replacement for a diaper bag - it has space for diapers, a waterproof pocket for wipes, plus a built-in changing mat in the back - she has begun using it as her everyday bag, she says. ![]() To find the most stylish (but still functional) fanny packs, we asked more than a dozen fashionable people, including models, photographers, stylists, and some of our own writers and editors, for their favorites. ![]() “Make it completely hands free, and it’s a no-brainer.” And the bright-neon nylon fanny packs of yesteryear are still here - but you’re more likely to see them in styles similar to the latest “It” bag: Take Coach’s suede and leather one, for example, or even this jacquard option from Dior. “Gone are the days of bulky wallets and carrying around an entire vanity’s worth of makeup - a phone, card wallet, lip gloss, keys, and your mask is all you need,” says stylist Lauren Messiah. There’s a good reason it has made such a transcendent comeback: Much like the Crocs renaissance, a fanny pack is, simply put, practical. Now it’s just as common to see one as you would a backpack, gym bag, status tote, or cross-body. Once mocked as a tourist trope, the fanny pack - also known as a belt bag, bum bag, or even waist pack - has become a must-have. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plugin can automatically detect UDIM textures and is compatible with Mari UDIM naming conventions. Custom materials creation: This section allows users to manually import textures and create custom Arnold/Redshift materials. To ensure proper functionality, the naming convention of the textures should match that of the materials. ![]() Intelligent materials creation (shade/double shade buttons) is useful when the imported FBX materials lack input textures. Getting through the proficiency learning. is limited only by your students' imagination, > Houdini Apprentice (h p://is a 3-D ani-mation and visual effects tool. converting SpeedTree materials to Arnold/Redshift materials and maintaining the connection to the corresponding model parts. Houdini is a fantastic piece of software that any VFX artist, whether in film or video games, should consider adding to their tool belt of 3D programs. Material engine has been tested on 3D assests from Kitbash3d, BigMediumSmall, Maxtree assets. converting the materials imported within an FBX asset to Arnold/Redshift materials, and maintaining the connection to the assigned model, it can generate shaders for any fbx file that has materials included. The potential uses for the plugin include: It is compatible with Houdini 19 and above and requires Python 3. Material Engine for Houdini is a plugin that allows users to work with Arnold/Redshift materials inside Houdini. I extend my sincere gratitude to my friend Mawloud Djeghloul for providing valuable assistance throughout the development process. Excited to announce that HEXTILE has won FIRST PLACE in the Best Houdini Utility category of the SideFX Labs Tech Art Challenge(2022). Houdini FX includes a complete tool kit for the studio want to use it for other tasks like lighting, animation or modeling.I'm really happy to share with all of you a cool plugin for Houdini that I developed. Houdini is perfect for artists and technical director Visual Effects with particle environment and its dynamics. ![]()
![]() ![]() AcknowledgementĪ big thank you to Simone Pizzuti for coming up with the new and improved icon for MKVtools. It has been tested on a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro with no known issues. MKVtools is Intel-only (64-bit) and requires Mac OS X 10.9.x or later. Enter a "Watch Mode" for which MKVtools will process all videos placed in a defined folder (registered copies only). ![]()
![]() ![]() If you’re a Mac user and want an iTunes alternative that isn’t Apple Music, you can try the Vox MP3 and FLAC music player app. If you want to immerse yourself in your music, you can use MediaMonkey’s visualization plugins to visualize your music with funky effects and customize with skins and other add-ons. MediaMonkey syncs with most Android or iOS mobile devices and other portable audio/video devices. If you like listening to podcasts, MediaMonkey’s integrated Podcatcher allows you to download audio content or you can use the web downloader and download files from websites. MediaMonkey also lets you organize, browse or search through your collection by artist, genre, rating, year and other parameters.Īn Auto-DJ feature is included that lets you create any casual or professional DJ party mix automatically based on your preferences. You can manage a music library with as few as 100 tracks to more than 100,000 audio or video files and playlists. You can also convert different audio file formats. The standard (free) version comes with several useful tools you can use to add album art, tag music files, rip CDs, and burn discs. The music manager and audio converter is compatible with non-Apple MP3 players, iOS devices and portable media players too. If you have a large digital music collection, you can use MediaMonkey to manage your library. ![]() MusicBee is available for Windows and it supports Groove Music, audio books, playlist and podcast syncing. It lets you use auto-tagging to organize your collection, and create or discover playlists based on your preferences using the Auto-DJ function. Plus, you can turn your device into a jukebox and play music any time. The software also supports web radio stations, podcasts and SoundCloud integration so you can play the music you want. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was replaced in the air force in 1969 by the turboprop C-160 Transall, built by a French-German consortium. The French military also operated the Deux-Ponts, which could also be configured as all cargo or with a combination passenger/cargo load on the two decks. The propliner served medium-range destinations and flew primarily between Paris and Algiers. Air France operated the unpressurized Deux-Ponts, also known as the Provence, from 1953 until 1971. The Proplinersįor a time in the 1950s, the chubby Breguet “Deux-Ponts” - French for "two decks" - was the largest-capacity airliner in the world.Ībout 20 of the peculiarly tri-tailed, four-engine aircraft were built - configured to carry around 107 passengers on two decks in tourist-class seating. (Photo by Harry Shepherd/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)īOAC flew the Sandringham on routes that reached as far as Tokyo until it was replaced by land-based planes in the late 1940s, signaling the end of the era of the flying boat. The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Short Sandringham passenger flying boat, a demilitarized conversion of the Short Sunderland military flying boat, taxiing for its maiden flight from the Short Brothers facility in Rochester, England on November 28, 1945. The 17-hour trip was flown at a blistering cruise speed of 125 mph, while passengers tolerated the thunder of four 1,600-hp Wright Cyclone radial piston engines. The 25 passengers per flight headed from San Francisco to Honolulu were pampered by four pursers on the luxurious lower deck of the Clipper. (Want to bring back that idea of not stuffing planes to the gills, airlines? We're all for it.) It could carry as many as 74 passengers, but was configured for 40 or fewer for overnight flights. In service from 1939 to 1948 - and drafted into the US military during the war - the 314 had a cabin almost as wide as a 747’s. Oh, the romance of the Pan American Clippers, captured in exotic settings on the gorgeous travel posters of the 1930s! They were the archetype of the seaplanes that dominated long-haul air travel before and immediately after World War II.īoeing’s Model 314 flying boat was the ultimate in pre-World War II intercontinental travel. TPG climbed into the dusty hangar of aviation history to find out about two-floor aircraft: Some that pioneered international air travel, some that were one-of-a-kind and some you still can fly today. Toulouse, March 20, 2019: Delivering to the customer a beautiful animal from a dying breed (Photo by Nicky Kelvin / The Points Guy)ĭouble-decker aircraft aren't limited to those two icons, however. ![]() ![]() After their work on Metroid: Samus Returns in 2017, Sakamoto appointed MercurySteam to develop Dread, the first original side-scrolling Metroid game since Metroid Fusion. Industry commentators expressed interest in a new 2D Metroid game, and listed Dread in their "most wanted" lists. Metroid producer Yoshio Sakamoto conceived Dread for the Nintendo DS in the mid-2000s, but development ended due to technical limitations. It retains the side-scrolling gameplay of previous 2D Metroid games and incorporates stealth elements. Set after the events of Metroid Fusion (2002), players control bounty hunter Samus Aran as she investigates the source of a mysterious transmission on the planet ZDR. It’s tried and true, and although Nintendo fridged the franchise for the better part of a decade following 2010’s abysmal Metroid: Other M, the subgenre would become popular with indie developers (like Hollow Knight’s Team Cherry), and for good reason.Metroid Dread is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and MercurySteam and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. ![]() Gameplay amounts to exploring terrain until you’re blocked, then finding the right tool to unblock the way, double back, repeat. Mix those up in a blender, add in a stoic female mercenary whose sole personality trait amounts to “badass,” and you’ve got Metroid. ![]() meets the item-based exploration of The Legend of Zelda. The series began as a merging of Nintendo design philosophies - the precision platforming of Super Mario Bros. Her nemesis is literally named “Ridley” - it ain’t subtle. It’s heavily “inspired” by Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, placing a strong female lead in an isolated horror space surrounded by creatures. For newcomers, the Metroid series may feel somewhat familiar. Speaking of Samus, it’s good to see her getting her due these last few years. It’s the kind of detail that somehow has eluded 99 percent of first-person games and is what makes Metroid Prime Remastered feel vital, even if it’s retread. It’s best summarized by a single recurring detail: whenever an explosion occurs too close to the player’s visor, they can see a gorgeously rendered reflection of their own face, or rather heroine Samus Aran’s. Only 2021’s 2D-oriented Metroid Dread comes to mind as a game that’s looked this good on Switch. It’s also surprisingly stable, especially compared to the numerous recent first and second-party Nintendo titles that have struggled to perform on the aging Switch hardware. The level of shading and texture here makes the 2002 iteration look like mud. Sometimes shockingly so, to the point peeping a YouTube clip of the original was appalling. Prime was famously a gorgeous game - after all, it was built for the GameCube at a time when Nintendo competed in the technical fidelity market rather than relying on unpowered hardware and plucky charm - but this remaster is honestly one of the best looking games on the Switch. Visually too, everything seemed per the rose-tinted memory of the original. I briefly switched back to the “purist” version, a clunky single stick system that relies almost entirely on lock-on aiming as the game did in 2002. It took a while for me to recognize that it was the result of a mechanical overhaul, adding in dual-stick shooter controls that all modern gamers are familiar with (and ironically introduced by this game’s direct competitor, 2001’s Halo). It felt like I was speed running a game I didn’t know I knew so well I was suddenly like Jason Bourne, an amnesiac savant of gaming. ![]() After booting up the game for the first time in 20 years, I was able to tear through the first quarter in a trance-like haze, acting almost entirely on muscle memory. ![]() And what a beautifully facsimiled memory it is. Visually and mechanically, it does the thing that’s so fashionable these days: Looking and playing as you remember the original, not the way it was. The 2002 version brought the world of Metroid to life in spectacular fashion and this remaster improves it in every possible way. Handwringing aside, there’s much to celebrate about this version of Prime. Few first-person games have ever been as immersive as Prime with its in-visor HUD. ![]() |
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