New Site
Ok, after some hiccups, CubeMine.com is now powered by WordPress! Yes, I know I said that I like reinventing the wheel before but I just don’t have time anymore to get my symfony-wheel spinning.
Symfony is a great framework for medium sized projects, especially if you have a small team working together the various parts of a site. If you are alone though, the advantages are not so clear. Having said that, the auto-generated admin pages were really helpful to get the site going very quickly. And I will miss some of the features I coded for the old site like download support for multiple resolutions and preview for different aspect ratio monitors.
One good thing about Wordpress is the active community and many plugins and themes. Although I haven’t found any plugins for displaying wallpapers, I’m sure I will try my hand at building one similar to the old cubemine. The current theme ” Atahualpa” was a great find since its very clean and keeps with the old site’s overall look.
And starting with the new site, I’ve changed the license terms for the wallpapers posted here. Actually, there’s no real license and, unless otherwise stated in the page, my work is now under the Creative Commons CC0. Why? Well, given that some of my images have appeared all over the Internet without any attribution given, it will not make much of a difference now. Besides, any money I get to make of this site is through commissions and any decent person that uses my images already links back without having to be asked.
And this reminds me: no more adds on this site. It just didn’t make any sense. If you however find my work useful and want to give something back or just want to help with the hosting fees, I’m setting up a shiny new donate button on the License page.
Hopefully, now I will get more organized to post some new stuff and get back to help the awesome LuxRender team. They are approaching the 0.6 release and things are looking great now that Indigo and Kerkythea are going commercial.
One last thing, I want to send a BIG thanks to Thomas from Pixel Partner for sending me an OpenKMQ kit some time ago. It’s a very interesting stereoscopic system with acrylic glasses which does not give headaches, like colored glasses, or dims the image, like shutter glasses. I’ve been meaning to write a head tracker with a webcam so I could do cool things like this:
Anyways, first things first!
Cheers,
—Ratow
