miscellaneous robots

robots: the perfect gifts for those special occasions

disturbingly enough, i'd been thinking about the crabulator for a long time before i finally got around to raytracing it... this is a pretty early robot in the overall robot-related scheme of things. i'm not overly happy with the claws, so there's a reasonably good chance a later model crabulator will make an appearance at some stage...

an early dip into the metal textures led to the copperish sheen of jimbo's birthday bot... it's not something that you can really see in the final image, but i was quite impressed with the methods i used to build the railway tracks & figure out the positioning of the robot's wheels, both of which i worked out on the bus on the way home from work one day...

ah, nothing says "i don't want to spend any money" quite as emphatically as a birthday robot... dave & fiona decided to have their birthdays within a couple of days of each other, & then they decided they should get married as well... it was clear that nothing less than a dubious robot would serve to commemorate these events...

spikeybot's one of my favourite robots... i don't know why, but i think it's got something to do with the fact that spikeybot always looks kind of cheerful... nothing too technically difficult in spikeybot's construction, just basic constructive solid geometry, but there you go...

the awful emptiness that arises from gazing at the turtleplexor... i think maybe it's the colours... & one of these days i'm gonna do something about those antennae, which never really looked right...

well, they're shiny, & they're mecha... ummm... good lord! is that a spaceship?!?

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ted@magicdog.com -- 29 August 2000