Really need to get in the habit of putting stuff here.
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Here's a thought that's been on my mind: thank you to archivists and librarians everywhere, both those preserving physical artifacts and digital copies. Especially those of you digitizing, though. I really hope that the internet and IT architecture in general swings back to collecting human culture to be accessible to all instead of bulldozing over human material in favor of various flavors of LLM slop, and that civilization doesn't screw up so that anything saved now can stay saved for an unfathomably long time.
Also there is a new set of TARDIS console renders! Took a very long time to get the final details satisfactory, and they're still fudged a bit. In the process of poking around my reference material I noticed that the control positioning for the last one I did, the Newbery console, could use some work. Then I noticed that the whole thing's dimensions don't even check out perfectly. Gonna wait a bit to make my attempt at correcting them; I'm finally tired of this work for the time being.
Random SketchUp (circa version 8) tip for anyone like me who can't figure out how to use the damn Photo Match tool: go into the "Styles" menu and import the photo you'd like to match as a watermark. Set the watermark as a foreground overlay with whatever opacity works for your eyes, then line the model up with the image using the regular view tools (note you'll probably have to play around with the field of view, too)
The minesweeper now has flagging on mobile. It doesn't use long presses because for some reason once my phone detects a long press it seems to cancel the regular mouseup and doesn't trigger any events I could find in doing so. Hopefully the alternate solution I've come up with isn't too horrible and works on all devices!
Hard for everything not to feel futile between global, national, and personal events, but sitting around is even more futile. Other stuff will continue appearing on here, probably first the next TARDIS console on the Dr Who page in a few months. I've made a whole bunch of tweaks to the earlier models too, having had plenty of time to notice mistakes.