My Office

At one time, the office was in a bedroom on the main floor, but we moved our daughter into that room after her third birthday, and I moved downstairs. This scene, created in LightWave 5, started out as something much simpler, just a way to plan where the furniture would go.

The computer on the left is a no-name 133 MHz Pentium, the very machine on which this scene was constructed. It went upstairs for a while to serve as the kids' machine, but it's long since been replaced. The one on the right is the Amiga 2000 that I started using LightWave on in 1991 (and sadly, that's also gone).

Next to the Apollo-era lunar globe is a Tinkertoy model of 3D space. The real one has masking tape labels on each of the twelve cube edges, a big help to me when I wrote my isosurface code.

Among the things that are mysteriously absent from this image are the wires. Nary a power cord or cable in sight. At the time, I couldn't afford the extra polygons. I'd used them up modeling the keyboards.

One of the nice things about doing computer graphics for a living is that I can do it from home while being an at-home dad for my two children.

This is what my basement office looked like in 1996.