A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson-Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of postwar experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation. There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike - the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use. As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality - it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell. Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.Īlthough contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat. Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting on 1stDibs.The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. ![]() ![]() ![]() The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home.
0 Comments
I actually got to visit Bungie and show some of the developers my costume when I was in Seattle. Plus that is why I like using Heavy Body acrylics it makes the colors really pop!! The LEDs do glow like that when centered on the camera. Despite the backgrounds on the first two images there is no Photoshop trickery. Fantastic pictures will showcase your costume in a controlled setting more than a standard con pic will. (Props I borrowed for photo shoots - Auto rifle made by WM Armory, knife made my Henchmen Props) This is really where all of your hard work goes into a portfolio piece. I cut out the belt loops and poked them all the way through the foam belt to give it a functional look.Īwesome glamour shots of my props and armor taken by myself and friends. 4) I constructed the belt buckle by cutting up some of the buckles I have made for the upper section of the armor. 3) Again using 2mm craft foam I made the belt strips and glued them in place with Barge. Then covered that with 2mm blue craft foam. I skinned the top and bottom of that with 2mm craft foam 2) I cut 1/4 ' strips of 4mm craft foam and glued them down in two lines to give the belt the raised look. 1) cut a strip of 1/4 inch foam aprox 4 3/4" high. Steps for the creation of the Hunter belt. This piece was cut out of 1/4" EVA foam and detailed using 2mm and 3mm craft foam. But because of time constraints and the fact that you can't wear two exotics at once I decided to make the concept art chest piece. Originally I had wanted to build the Alpha Lupi chest armor. The originals were then molded and cast in Smooth-On Smooth Cast 300. The buckles are built out of various thicknesses of styrene and wooden dowels. I scratch built the Destiny chest armor buckles. Now that it is complete I will say that I do like the overall look better So I broke out the dremel, styrene, and bondo and rebuilt the backside of the mask. I had to go in and cut out the respirators on the sides because I found out they round back more and there is a detail clasp on the end piece. I just felt that it needed something to show more of his in game look.ĪARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!!! The feeling I get when I think I am close to making the final mold for a piece and I find some new reference images that change my design. The hood in the picture is not the final version I occasionally pick up random curtains from my job that are discontinued. The chin piece and half circles are cut out of a thicker gauge styrene and shaped using a sanding drum on my dremel. The details were cut out of the bondo using a dremel. The bondo was then sanded and filled with putty to get a smooth surface. By using the styrene as a wall it made sure that the bondo was at the desired thickness. This form was then glued to the top of the mask and filled with bondo. ![]() The top crown was made by first cutting and heat forming styrene into the desired shape. Styrene can be manipulated by using a heat gun and formed into place.Īdditional details are added to the Destiny hunter straps using thinner gauge styrene and glued into place. The styrene is templated from craft foam so that I know it will fit before I cut it out. After the sanding is done sheet and rod styrene is used to start making the details around the goggles and the side straps. The copy is primed with Rustoleum Rust Red and sanded multiple times to start to define the shapes. So with my resin copy I can now start to refine and add all of the details. Green LEDs and Coin Ballery holder - 2032 battery But I also scoured the internet and purchased a couple of books including The Art of Destiny. These are screen shots of my Hunter's helmets. Always try and find as many reference images as you can. When you start to think about making a prop from a video game, movie, etc. ![]() As with all of my prop builds reference material is key. It is less often used for transcoding like that performed by HandBrake because its compression efficiency can rarely match an optimized software encoder for the same codec, but HandBrake still provides the owners of compatible hardware (who are willing to accept the tradeoff) with the option of hardware encoding. This hardware is usually provided for scenarios where quick and power-efficient compressed video is desired, such as videoconferencing and streaming video. Some GPUs (including GPUs physically integrated with CPUs, referred to by AMD as APUs) contain dedicated hardware for video encoding and decoding ( Intel's Quick Sync Video, Nvidia's NVENC, or AMD's Video Coding Engine / Video Core Next). ![]() There is another transcoder, called VidCoder, that uses HandBrake as its encoding engine. On 24 December 2016 after more than 13 years of development, HandBrake 1.0.0 was released. The MediaFork website and forums were moved to HandBrake's, and the next release was officially named HandBrake. Plans were then made to reintegrate MediaFork as a direct successor to HandBrake. On 13 February 2007, Hester and Long were contacted by Petit who informed them of his support and encouraged them to continue development. Hester and Long named the new project MediaFork. Unable to submit their revisions as a successor to HandBrake, Hester created a subversion repository mirroring HandBrake's final subversion (0.7.1) on the HandBrake website and began development on top of that. Hester and Long made progress in terms of stability, functionality, and look and feel, but it was not possible to submit their patch to the HandBrake subversion repository without authorisation from Petit. Since their work was complementary, they began working together to develop an unstable, but still compileable, release of HandBrake supporting the H.264 format. In September 2006, Rodney Hester and Chris Long had been independently working to extract the H.264 video compression format from Apple's iPod firmware (1.2) through reverse engineering before meeting on the HandBrake forum. From May–June 2006, no one in the HandBrake community was successful in contacting Petit, and no further code changes were officially made. Petit continued to be active on the HandBrake forum for a brief period after. ![]() He continued to be the primary developer until April 2006, when the last official Subversion revision was committed. HandBrake was originally developed by Eric Petit in 2003 as software for BeOS, before porting it to other systems. HandBrake clients are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities). HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as "filters"). It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping DVDs to a data storage device easier. ![]() ![]() HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. GPL-2.0-only (Third-party components have their own licenses) English*, German*, French, Italian, Russian, others - *documentation available in the marked languages
Question 4: Does River flooding relate to sewage backups? Yes, in a complex way. And that estimate only includes the dramatic influence of land use changes but makes no assumptions about the effect of global climate change. In other words, the current storm’s flow may be roughly only half as bad as the 100 year storm flow. He further estimates that if one looks at the trend line in flows (as opposed to the last the recent average), the 100 year flow may actually have be as high as 2,700 cfs. In other words, the 100 year flood has been steadily increasing and he believes that this is mostly due to land use changes during the period 1940 to 2006. ![]() Professor Richard Vogel, a hydrologist at Tufts, estimates that the 100 year flow event on the Aberjona has increased from roughly 500 cubic feet per second based on flow records in the 40s and 50s to 1000 cfs based on flow records in the 60s and 70s to 1500 cfs based on flow records from the recent two decades ending in 2006. High peak river flows drive up flood waters. They send water straight through the storm drain system into the rivers, increasing the peak flow in the rivers. The replacement of absorbent soils with impermeable roofs and roads makes a big difference. Question 3: How often can we expect storms with this local flooding impact? Hard to say, but much more frequently than every 100 years. At the Alewife itself, the flow crested at about 120 cfs in the Mothers day storm, while in this storm, the flow exceeded 200 cfs. When the Mystic floods, the Alewife Brook tributary also floods. High river flow could be explained by locally heavy rainfall or by saturated soil that absorbed little of the rainfall. For those who remember the October 1996 storm, which is the last storm in my memory to have such severe local effects, the highest daily discharge in storm was only 1070 cfs. The highest day of the Mother’s day storm was only 1,110 cfs. The mean discharge at the Aberjona guage up in Winchester was a huge 1420 cubic feet per second on Monday and still 1,120 cfs on Tuesday. The river flow coming down from Winchester on the Mystic was 140 times greater than its calm day level of 10 cubic feet per second. Question 2: Was the flood itself off-the-page by the numbers? Apparently so. (By comparison in only 48 hours around Mothers Day 2006, 7.61 inches fell at Logan yet the flooding problems were not nearly as bad then.) National weather service data from Logan put the rain fall in the 72 hours from Saturday morning through Tuesday morning at 6.98 inches, well shy of the 100 year mark. However, it was not quite as dramatic for the whole regional system. So, this storm was a little more spreadout in time but did approach a 100 year event locally. ![]() ![]() According to the traditional official methods - which do not make any allowance for increased precipitation due to climate change - 6.5 inches of rain in 24 hours or 8.5 inches in 48 hours is a 100 year storm in this area. A 100 year storm is a storm with severity that has a one percent chance of recurring in any given year. Local rain gauges suggested that Belmont got 8.5 inches of rain from the 3 day storm. The rain started falling in Belmont on Saturday morning and continued through Monday evening - in other words, roughly a 60 hour storm. Question 1: Was it an off-the-page storm overall? Not a 100 year storm, but definitely big. Please do share your thoughts and observations on this event. While we have made progress over the last few years, it is clear that we have to keep at our efforts. We had both severe sewer backups and severe storm-water flooding in many neighborhoods in Arlington, Belmont and Cambridge. Most of us were disappointed by how our regional infrastructure performed during the most recent flooding event. ![]() The company's project was later reportedly shut down by the U.S. ![]() A wave of negative publicity ensued, with coverage on BuzzFeed News, CNBC, the BBC, and TechCrunch. At CES 2018, he broke the news about Kodak's "KashMiner" Bitcoin mining scheme with a viral tweet. Starting in 2015, Chris attended the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for five years running. His work has even appeared on the front page of Reddit.Īrticles he's written have been used as a source for everything from books like Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff, media theory professor at the City University of New York's Queens College and CNN contributor, to university textbooks and even late-night TV shows like Comedy Central's with Chris Hardwick. His roundups of new features in Windows 10 updates have been called "the most detailed, useful Windows version previews of anyone on the web" and covered by prominent Windows journalists like Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT's Windows Weekly. Instructional tutorials he's written have been linked to by organizations like The New York Times, Wirecutter, Lifehacker, the BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, and John Gruber's Daring Fireball. The news he's broken has been covered by outlets like the BBC, The Verge, Slate, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Techmeme. Beyond the column, he wrote about everything from Windows to tech travel tips. He founded PCWorld's "World Beyond Windows" column, which covered the latest developments in open-source operating systems like Linux and Chrome OS. He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. ![]() Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. Chris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. ![]() On its own, Settlers of Catan generally supports 2-4 players, but with the extensions, they extend the gameplay to support 5-6 players. ExtensionĮxtensions are simply expansions that exist to add more players to the game. Popular expansion packs include Seafarers, Cities and Knights, Explorers and Pirates, and Traders and Barbarians. These packs add new gameplay elements to the game and are generally the meat and potatoes of its add-ons. The first type of expansion for Settlers of Catan is actually titled “expansion” packs on the official website. Each type impacts the game in its own, unique way. Since the term “expansion pack” is fairly broad in the Settlers of Catan universe, I’m going to use this section to break down the various types of expansions available. However, there are several expansion packs and versions that allow for more or fewer players. Settlers of Catan sessions usually last 60-90 minutes and are generally played with 3-4 players. Since the board and its game pieces can be interchanged, the game allows for a different experience each time. The gameplay revolves around resource management, and the objective is to build settlements, roads, and cities in order to conquer the land of Catan. The game has become so popular, in fact, that it even hosts professional competitions around the world. Since then, Settlers of Catan has become a legendary game in the board game community, with countless expansion packs and spin-off games. Settlers of Catan is an award-winning strategy board game first published in 1995. ![]() What is the Board Game Settlers of Catan? It’s sure to scratch your itch for new strategies and adds a whole new dimension to the gameplay with more commodities, dice, progress cards, and tokens.Ĭlosely following Cities and Knights, I’d add Seafarers if you want to expand your board size, and Explorers and Pirates if you want a bunch of mini-expansions you can pick and choose from. I’m going to come right out of the gate and say that the best expansion pack for Settlers of Catan is Cities and Knights. You’ll find things titled “Expansion Packs,” “Extensions,” and even “Scenarios.” You’ll see accessories, new boards, and even completely different stand-alone games! It can get confusing quite quickly when there are so many options and buzzwords being thrown around.īut have no fear, by the end of this article you’ll be a pro in the Settlers of Catan world, and know exactly what expansion packs to aim for in your next session. In the Settlers of Catan universe, there are all sorts of add-ons. But when you Google “Settlers of Catan Expansion Packs,” you’ll quickly learn that it is quite the task! To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.If you’re a massive fan of Settlers of Catan like me, your first instinct after playing a few times was probably to start researching expansion packs. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. You can make changes to a particular array element without changing the other elements.Īt the same time, and as explained in Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2016, you can work with the whole array (all of its elements) at once.Therefore, each array element has a unique identifying index number. The variables that compose an array are sequentially indexed.The group of variables that make up an array have (i) the same name, and (ii) the same data type.For purposes of Visual Basic for Applications an array is, basically, a group of variables.These main characteristics of a VBA array are: These 2 definitions provide a good idea of the basic characteristics of a VBA array that you need to understand for purposes of this tutorial. In Excel VBA Programming For Dummies, Excel guru John Walkenbach provides a broader definition of array by stating that:Īn array is a group of variables that share a name. Changes made to one element of an array don't affect the other elements. Each element of an array has a unique identifying index number. You can get immediate free access to this example workbook by subscribing to the Power Spreadsheets Newsletter.Įven though I've already provided a basic description of arrays in the introduction above, let's start by diving deeper into the topic of… What Is An Excel VBA ArrayĪccording to the Microsoft Dev Center, an array is:Ī set of sequentially indexed elements having the same intrinsic data type. This Excel VBA Array Tutorial is accompanied by an Excel workbook containing the data and macros I use in the examples below. Books Referenced In This Excel Tutorial.How To Erase The Data In An Array (Or The Array Itself).How To Refer To An Element In a Multidimensional Array.How To Refer To An Element In A One-Dimensional Array.Lower Array Bounds And The Option Base Statement.How To Declare And ReDim A Dynamic Excel VBA Array.How To Declare A Fixed Multidimensional Excel VBA Array.How To Declare A Fixed One-Dimensional Excel VBA Array.One-Dimensional And Multidimensional VBA Arrays.Array Size, Data Types And Memory Requirements.Please feel free to use it to easily navigate to the topic of your interest. The following table of contents lists the main sections of this blog post. My purpose with this VBA tutorial is to provide you with a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the topic of Excel VBA arrays that allows you to start using arrays now. In Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2016, Mansfield describes arrays as “kind of super variable” or “variable on steroids”. Allow you to increase the speed of your VBA applications.Īn indication of the power of VBA arrays is provided by author Richard Mansfield.Can make your code more readable and easier to maintain.Help you ease the process of getting information from data.Allow you to group related data and, more generally, make data manipulation easier. ![]() ![]() You should learn to work with Excel VBA arrays because, among other benefits (as listed in Excel 2016 VBA and Macros), they: You might be wondering why should you bother learning about Excel VBA arrays if you already have a good knowledge of regular variables. Arrays have, however, certain special characteristics and features that differ from those regular variables. Therefore, working with VBA arrays is (to a certain extent) very similar to working with regular variables. You'll be glad to know that, if you already have a basic knowledge of variables and data types (I cover these topics in the blog posts I link to above), you already have a good base knowledge that will help you understand and master the topic of arrays.Īfter all, arrays are (in the end) variables. In this VBA tutorial, I focus on a topic that is closely related to the above: Excel VBA Data Types: The Complete Guide.Declare Variables In VBA For Excel: The How-To Guide.I've written detailed and comprehensive tutorials about several of these topics, including the following 2: If you've been working with (or learning) Visual Basic for Applications, you're probably aware of the importance of having a solid knowledge of certain topics that influence data storage and manipulation. ![]() To read the file cars3.dat, use the following syntax. Here's what the data in the file cars3.dat look like: AMC Concord2229304099 ![]() Suppose you are using a PC and you have a file named cars3.dat, that is stored in the c:\carsdata directory of your computer. Reading fixed formatted data from an external file The benefit of fixed formatted data is that you can fit more information on a line when you do not use delimiters such as spaces or commas.ĥ Buick Elec7827 3. For example, if we rearrange the cars data from above, we can read it as fixed formatted data: DATA cars2 This also requires the data to be in the same columns for each case. That is, you need to provide the beginning and ending column numbers for each variable. Usually, because there are no delimiters (such as spaces, commas, or tabs) to separate fixed formatted data, column definitions are required for every variable in the dataset. Here is the output produced by the proc print statement above.įixed formatted data can also be read instream. For example:Īfter reading in the data with a data step, it is usually a good idea to print the first few cases of your dataset to check that things were read correctly. Spaces are usually used to "delimit" (or separate) free formatted data. This approach is good for relatively small datasets. One of the most common ways to read data into SAS is by reading the data instream in a data step - that is, by typing the data directly into the syntax of your SAS program. UCLA: Statistical Consulting Group.įrom (accessed August 11, 2015). ![]() ![]() While continuing to make waves both on Broadway ("Six Degrees of Separation" "Long Day's Journey Into the Night") and Off ("Punk Rock" "Close Up Space"), by the late 2000s Minifie began fattening up her acting resume by also appearing in films and TV shows. She eventually caught the attention of the YoungArts Foundation, which was established to help nurture the talents of emerging high school artists, and was awarded one of the foundation's highly sought after scholarships. She began acting professionally at the young age of 11 and by 13 had made her Broadway debut in Martin McDonagh's dark comedy "The Pillowman." More theatrical roles followed, thus allowing Minifie's to hone her fledgling acting craft on a consistent basis. Acting, however, was where Colby Minifie's true passion was. She attended the National Dance Institute in New York City for four years, where she studied ballet under the acclaimed dance teacher Jacques d'Amboise. ![]() She loved going horseback riding with her cousins, and was also fond of dancing and acting. Born in New York, Minifie was a curious young girl who had various different interests. Maisel" (Amazon Prime, 2017-), and "Fear the Walking Dead" (AMC, 2015-). Colby Minifie was a versatile American stage, film and TV actress, who was best known for her recurring roles on "Jessica Jones" (Netflix, 2015-19), "The Marvelous Mrs. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |