hello

been on vacation for ten days. i visited three museums. the kimbell, the modern and the meadows museum at smu. i ate and slept. i pulled up some rose bushes and installed a bird bath. start school in about two weeks. thanks for reading.

no new news

not much going on. posted some pics. added some links. im about to finnish my dreamweaver class. i have learned alot. enrolled in civil drafting for the fall. i still need to add one more class...peace. out.

you got a lot of NURBS!!

non uniform rational basis splines that is!!

development of NURBS (non uniform rational basis spline) began in the 1950s by engineers who were in need of a mathematically precise representation of freeform surfaces like those used for ship hulls, aerospace exterior surfaces, and car bodies, which could be exactly reproduced whenever technically needed. prior representations of this kind of surface only existed as a single physical model created by a designer.....cool.

soh cah toa...

we had a math review in my strength of materials class about a week ago. some of the students were trying to remember the trig functions and came up with this device:

sin
opposite
hypotenuse

cosine
adjacent
hypotenuse

tangent
opposite
adjacent

this class has been one my favorite so far. i am in a good group.
we have had a lot of fun and learned many things.

have a good day.

nothing new...

worked on site the past couple of days. modified site and blog. went to class. watched election coverage. ate some chicken.

topo survey

today in topological drafting we surveyed the court yard outside the engineering building. we used a topcon transit like the one pictured here. we plotted 4 angles of the property and recoreded the measurements for later use. it was cold outside and a small amout of moisture began to fall as we concluded the survey....now I am going to eat lunch and then go to work. tomorow i am attending some training for work in downtown dallas. i am also starting to come to the conclusion typing in small letters all the time is not as great an idea as i first thought.

have a good day.

more from school...

tool tips are small graphic boxes that appear when using web sites or programs. they display information about the icon or element that is currently being hovered over with the mouse pointer.microsoft has refered to them as screentips.the image above is an example of a tooltip that is on my own site domaindesigngroup.com....thank you and have a good day!