Tag: TIL

  • TIL-post: point cloud processing

    We’re working on a small archeo-acoustics project, whose starting point is a LiDAR-obtained point cloud in LAS format. This is the first time we’ve worked with this kind of data, so I’m writing down the data processing steps. There is a complete tutorial on handling point clouds in Blender by Florent Poux: https://youtu.be/DCkFhHNeSc0 In order…

  • TIL: minimal PWA setup

    TIL: minimal PWA setup

    Our webdev approach tends towards the minimal, we’re allergic to leaky abstractions. Even using WordPress for this blog is mostly motivated by learning more about such a popular system, for everything else we use good old HTML + CSS + JS, served by a good old Apache web server. PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are websites…

  • TIL: manually set object origin in Blender

    TIL: manually set object origin in Blender

    This one is pretty basic: in order to change the origin of an object you can right click and choose one of the options: Or you can set it manually, just go into Edit Mode, then at the top right of the viewfinder go to Options, Transform, Affect Only Origins. This allows you to move…

  • TIL: multiple selection modes in Blender

    TIL: multiple selection modes in Blender

    When in Edit Mode, you can switch the selection mode between Vertex, Edge and Face, using the icons right next to the drop down menu from which you can switch to Object Mode. You can also use the 1, 2, 3 keys as a shortcut. What I just learned is that if you Shift+click on…

  • TIL: “fix” Blender zoom

    TIL: “fix” Blender zoom

    With the default Blender settings it is quite common to get into situation where you just can’t get close enough to your object. There are two tricks to fixing it. The first is to use the Shift+C shortcut, to reset. The second is to enable Auto Depth, under Edit > Preferences > Navigation, as shown…

  • TIL: a dive into web components

    Here at E-MUSE we favour sticking to HTML until we absolutely need CSS, and sticking sto CSS until we absolutely need JS, and sticking to client-side framework-less JS until we absolutely need to. Related to this, here is a tiny TIL: Offloading Javascript with Custom Properties, on the interaction between JavaScript and custom CSS properties.…

  • Linkpost: webdev edition

    A couple of useful links from and about the web

  • TIL: video editing in Blender

    As a company we are deeply committed to Open Source and Free Software. For video processing we do use a whole lot of ffmpeg, but for video editing we tend to use proprietary solutions like DaVinci Resolve and FinalCut Pro rather than Kdenlive. However, we’re already working on Blender most of the time, so why…

  • TIL: CSS Scroll Snapping, nested selectors

    Our designer is building her personal portfolio website, and she’s way less conservative than me with her layouts. In order to actually implement her design I found out about CSS scroll-snapping, and the nested selector. The latter has reached Baseline status in December 2023, so it makes sense that I didn’t know about it yet!