Straight Line Winds

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by Lisa

We had huge wind storms today – 85mph up at the airport. It was gusty all day, but it really picked up in the afternoon. I was working and heard wind noise. I looked out the window and saw a wall of brown that I realized was all of the dead needles blowing off the pine trees along the south side of our back yard. Then the trees all started to lay down – the willow first, but then the pines started reaching for the ground. One popped and flopped into the grass as the gust subsided and all of the other trees stood up.

Setting Windows Dynamic Port Range

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by Lisa

In case anyone else ever needs to set a windows dynamic port range for magic RPC “stuff” — there’s a minimum range size of 255. If you make the range to small, you get an incredibly vague and not-useful “the parameter is incorrect” error. Increase num to at least the min value, and you don’t be going in circles trying to figure out what in your command doesn’t match the parameters in the documentation!

 

The Smoothie

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by Lisa

Coconut milk + water, frozen fruit … plus:

  • Ground flax seed
  • Chia seeds
  • Unflavored gelatin
  • Prebiotic fiber (maltodextrin)
  • Psyllium husk fiber (fine powder)
  • Broccoli (for sulforaphane)
  • Lions mane mushroom powder
  • <other thing in the bag I cannot remember>
  • Sometimes CBG powder

Blender Scripting Lesson of the Week: Cylinders

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by Lisa

Quick script for creating a cylinder using bpy

import bpy

# Clear all existing objects
for obj in list(bpy.data.objects):
    bpy.data.objects.remove(obj, do_unlink=True)

# Set Units
scene = bpy.context.scene
scene.unit_settings.system = 'METRIC'
scene.unit_settings.scale_length = 0.001  # 1 BU = 1 mm

# Create cylinder
bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cylinder_add(
    vertices=32, radius=10.0, depth=20.0,
    end_fill_type='NGON', calc_uvs=True,
    enter_editmode=False, align='WORLD',
    location=(0.0, 0.0, -2.0), rotation=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0),
    scale=(1, 1, 1)
)

# Name cylinder
obj = bpy.context.active_object
obj.name = "MyCylinder"

# Frame Selected 
for area in bpy.context.window.screen.areas:
    if area.type == 'VIEW_3D':
        for region in area.regions:
            if region.type == 'WINDOW':
                with bpy.context.temp_override(area=area, region=region):
                    bpy.ops.view3d.view_selected(use_all_regions=False)
                break
        break