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AMD Ryzen – My new PC for content creation (with Hash Animation:Master) and Games (Part 2/3)

A I already told you about 1. part, I've got a new PC. In this part I will show you the configuration of the new PC I am using. Type Item CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (overclocked to 3.9 GHz with Dark Rock 3) RAM Corsair DIMM 16GB DDR4-3200 Kit (slightly underclocked at 2.9 GHz, 3.2 GHz does not run stable at the moment) GPU SAPPHIRE ...

AMD Ryzen – My new PC for content creation (with Hash Animation:Master) and Games (Part 1/3)

Last week I bought a new PC which should replace my AMD Phenom II x6 1090T-based mahine as my main pc. My x6 has been a reliable computer for many years (over 7 years) but nowadays it is getting more frequent, that even the minimal requirements of PC games are not matched anymore. If you think about how old that machine really is, it is more than astonishing how long that has taken to be the case. To be honest, that machine is a grandpa today. ...

Hash Animation:Master Image Contest: Prize for 1th place

It took a little but yesterday I received a package with my win of the Hash Animation:Master Image Contest (Topic: Insects). I want to thank everybody involved for this very nice looking and very well crafted medal. Additional to that I received a jacket of Siggraph 2000, which was the first year (version 8) I've got involved with Hash Animation:Master. The medal has been created using powder 3d printing and I find it astonishing well made and ...

Light holder for Inline skating at night (Revised)

My first light holder design for skating at night already was in use for about 2 seasons and because of the flexible PLA, some smaller accidents and just the age of it, it was a little broken at the end. Because of that I created a revised version of it in A:M, brought it over to Makerware and printed a new one out – this time with normal PLA. Till now it works perfectly. These are the images starting with the design till the final products ...

My first App in the Windows Store: WingMan – Fight For Earth

The company I work for has of course already published several apps to the App stores, but till now we did not publish one for the Windows Store and all of them for customers, not for the agency or even PW3d. But that changes now: WingMan – Fight for Earth is available in the Windows Store published by PW3d now.. Everybody how has got an Windows 10 PC, a Windows 10 Tablet (like the Surface or many others) or a Windows 10 (mobile) Smartphone ...

Minion-Mariage... or: What you should put on a cake (Part 1)

A co-worker of mine will marry soon (she already is before law but not at the church yet... deside for yourself if she already is or not ;) ) and I've have create a small minion couple and want to print it for her. The first steps of the long road ahead are done and those can be seen here These characters are created in A:M and they will be printed in 3d on my Makerbot Replicator 2 or 2x (which can be quite challenging , if you ask me...) ...