Welcome!
Welcome to CubeMine.com. This is the first post and I’ll be talking about what’s this site about, who am I and what to expect in the next coming weeks.
- What’s this site about?
Cubemine.com is about two things: art and technology. Here, you will be able to find wallpapers. Abstract, minimalistic, hi-res 3D computer generated wallpapers mainly. The newest are available right on the main page. There is also my blog here, which I will try to periodically update with content about art and technology in the broader sense. Yes, configuring an LDAP server on OpenBSD to act as a Windows Domain Logon Server is a damn fine art! And speaking of technological art, the playground area will be a place for little experiments, toys and games that I sometimes come up with. Right now, this site is a little more than a mockup, and thus is open to changes. Got cool ideas? Tell me
- Who am I?
If you’re wondering who the heck I am anyway, well, I’m Ricardo Lipas a.k.a. Ratow, a Brazilian who lives in South America’s biggest city, São Paulo. I’m a graduated eletrical engineer but love to make 3D renderings whenever I can. Right now, I post my art on two places, DeviantArt and InterfaceLift, which is probably where you came from. I’m a big open source fan and use only free tools like Blender and Gimp to make art.
One of the reasons to make a blog section here is that I’m seeking a degree of master and I need to finish my disertation. The problem is that I’m a lousy scientific writer and thought that perhaps writing a blog might help.
- What to expect?
Well, first and foremost, expect new wallpapers. This is the easiest thing for me to do right now. But I what I really want to do is finish coding the site. I could use a blog software like WordPress but reinventing the wheel is cool. Besides nice features are planned, like multi-resolution and multi-aspect (wide and dual-screen) wallpapers. Next on the list is support for comments and RSS or else I’m not going to get much feedback…
—Ratow
PS: Minor edit on the pages and, yes, I just sold my soul to a big ad company.
wow. it´s just amazing, I have been switching betwen 2 of your creations in my dekstop wallpaper. they are called splash. can you tell me how U do that to seem so reallistic?
very exiting work. good job.
parabens mesmo…
Roberto Rojas. Chile
Thanks Roberto! I really appreciate your comment.
To get realistic renders I usually use the YafRay renderer (http://yafray.org/) which surely helps a lot, but I still need to do some material tweaking to get everything right.
Definitely not Pixar-like quality but thanks again!
-Ratow
Ratow,
You are something else.
I still couldn’t do it as good as you can.
Keep it up.
Keji