In which Saturn turns blue, as I have fun with some images hot off the press from Cassini.
Welcome to my Lair!
Welcome to the Lair of Evil Dr Ganymede! On this site, you’ll find my articles about Battletech, Elite Dangerous, 2300AD and Science as well as more general articles about role-playing games, worldbuilding, and Stellar Mapping that I’ve written or co-authored, along with artwork that I’ve created using 3D modelling software (POVray and Lightwave) over the years. I’ve also put my Ph.D. Thesis and abstracts online on my Science page.
I run a blog here in which I generally talk about RPGs and worldbuilding, and interesting planetary science and astronomy topics, and any other stuff I find interesting too (you can read all the blog entries below this post, so scroll down! To read the full article, just click on the title of the entry in the blog). There’s no fixed schedule, I just post whenever I feel I have something interesting to say :). If you just want to read blog entries about specific subjects (e.g. Battletech, 2300AD, Science, Worldbuilding, Stellar Mapping, etc) you can just click the link in the sidebar on the right under “Categories” (you can use that link as a bookmark too).
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Why I love Voyager
In which I wax lyrical about how much I love NASA/JPL’s Voyager spacecraft.
Voyager for POVRay now online again!
My Voyager for POVray model is now live again on this website (any bookmarks to it will have to be updated, as the URL has changed)!
Seeing in a different light.
In which I show off some Voyager 1 Ganymede mosaics that I made and illustrate the difference between various filter combinations.
Postcards from a distant moon
In which I dig up some old images of Ganymede that I made for my Ph.D., and tell you what a pain it was to process them :).
Space Art page is up!
Hooray, I finally got around to adding my Space Art! All I need to do now is add the pics of the 3D models I’ve made, but I’ll figure that out later.
Stumbled Upon!
It seems that someone has linked my Worldbuilding page on Stumbleupon – thank you, whoever did that! I hope more people find it useful as a result. 🙂
I am very slowly adding more pictures to the General 3D Artwork page – I’m gradually getting the hang of the new NextGen Gallery add-on (the PicLens slideshow seems to be working, but I can’t get the Flash one to work anymore for some reason), and also re-rendering the images as necessary to make them bigger than 640×480.
I should add that while the Space Art and POVray Voyager pages that were here before will soon be back online, I have decided not to bring my Planetary Maps back online – fact is, people can find much higher quality maps online nowadays so they’re pretty redundant. I hope people found them useful while they were up though :).
I’ll post further updates when the other art pages are up!
RPG and Science pages now online!
The new Science and Roleplaying Pages are now fully online on the new WordPress site, and everything seems to be working fine.
I’ve updated, consolidated, and removed some of the material from my old RPG Hub:
The Science page is essentially the same as the old Work Hub, and contains a downloadable PDF version of my Ph.D. thesis, as well as the science posters and abstracts that I wrote during my scientific career.
I haven’t done anything with the 3D Artwork pages, but I’m hoping they should be up and running in the next few days. Stay tuned for further updates!
If you see anything amiss (or have any comments), please leave a comment below or send me an email!
Getting there.
Ok… I’ve got the plugins sorted, I’ve re-uploaded the Science page – though I still need to tidy up the links – and I’ve got the other pages ready for text (they’re blank for now). I don’t think I’ll recreate all the internal HTML pages I link to (such as the files on the oWoD hub), I’m just going to link them directly from new wordpress pages – that should be much easier. Then I’ll put redirects from the old hubs, so I should be able to track them with the stats plugin.
Hopefully most (if not all) of the site will be back up and running by the end of this week.