Working indicator

I have always thought that 3D modelling was very fun. My problem is just that I have no talent for it. Therefore I need to put a lot of work into it if I just want to get something ok out of it. My all time favorite tool is Blender, an Open Source 3D modelling/rendering/creativity/etc. suite. Today I needed a larger working indicator than the one provided by Wicket. A very quick search on google didn’t really result in anything useful so I thought how difficult can it be to create it myself in Blender. And I was right! It wasn’t that difficult to do. It only took me about 3 hours to create what I wanted, which is little compared to how many days I can sit and become more and more frustrated on how bad I am at using 3D applications.

I’m quite happy with the result. I rendered it out in a 24, 32 and 48 pixels and used a combination of ImageMagick and Gimp to produce the following animated gifs.

I have no idea if these indicators break any patents, but if they don’t the images are available under:

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Wicket => Apache Wicket

Wicket has graduated from Apache Incubator and has now become an Apache top level project. I would like to thank all the guys who made this possible and especially Martijn (our new PMC Chair). I’m trying to plan a little get-together/meeting in Copenhagen where we would also get a change to drink a glass of Champagne to celebrate it. Join us if you live near Copenhagen!