Modelling 3D feather with blender

Browsing through the links found by google on the issue blender and feathers did not provide me with what I searched. For completeness sake let me list them here in the case it is what you are looking for:

Forum entries and other listings:

Ready made feather models:

Tutorials:

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Java Advanced Imaging with Maven

After serveral tries to combine Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) with a Maven project I finally succeeded. The main problem as it is often in such cases is that there is not enough documentation on the subject in the web. I am sure that countless programmer had the same problem, but after they solved the problem they did not document it or if they did their solution is unsatisfactory for an open source project (e.g. installing the JAI dependencies in your local repository). Therefore here is my solution:

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Harry Potter and What Happened After by StageManagerGod

This full feature story starts the day after Voldemort is defeated and roles on more than a year. This is the sole story after Book 7 that is enjoyable to read, which may be in part of the extensive descriptions of sex scenes.

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Integrate antique scanner in Ubuntu

Because I started artwork with blender it became necessary to use my scanner. It is an antiquated piece of hardware  (from the last millennium 1999). Up until now I did not use it very often, because I used a better scanner at the office. Or I started up Windows where it is working.

So basically scanning in Linux works out of the box if sane is installed, unless…

Starting up xsane from the menu I got an error message that did not tell me or anybody else anything. Something along the line device could not be initialized snapscan:libusb:006:002. Therefore I tried the same on the console in the hope to gain more information and I was successful:

[snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin.
[snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf.

With this message I searched the web and found Martin Meyerspeer had the same problem with another device. The basic is that you need a binary firmware file that is referenced. The file can be found on the accompanying driver CD. If your are lucky you did not throw it out already.  In my case it was simple because the firmware files were not packed in an archive. There were however several of them. The SnapScan homepage helped me out locating the correct on. The rest is just following Martins description.

Eclipse context help through Eclipse’s help button

As mentioned in my previous article there is a third alternative for providing context help. This is also the most simple of all. On your wizard page class all you have to do is overriding the method performHelp:

public void performHelp(){
	String contextHelpID = "ch.sahits.phpclassgenerator.filename";
	getShell().setData(ECLIPSE_HELP,contextHelpID);
	PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getHelpSystem().displayHelp(contextHelpID);
}

You will notice that this is the same code as in the widgetSelected method.