I’m going to have to, at some point, erase all instances of kotobishoujo.com from my site. As I said before, I want the site to be anonymous and have no trace of me. So I’ll have to take this stuff off the Google Search and cache. Ah well, plenty of time for that.

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I had built a “statue platform” off a Lazy Susan (a kitchen item which turns) and my plan was to take 31 shots at equal angle distances. 31 because the 32nd shot would be equal to the 1st shot, coming to a full 360° coverage. Basically you have 31 different camera shots. Then build an image rotator on my webpage so you could see all angles of the statue.

I was all ready to take photographs of my models, except unfortunately, I couldn’t reach both the camera and the lazy susan at the same time. This meant I could either:
1. Take pictures without turning the Lazy Susan (not an option).
2. Turn the Lazy Susan without taking pictures (obviously not an option).
So I had nothing to do until I could turn the Lazy Susan AND take pictures. To do this, I needed a camera remote (which allows me to turn the Lazy Susan whilst taking pictures at a distance from the camera).

2 weeks of waiting for a remote to ship (cuz I got it for $5 off eBay, as opposed to $30-$40 in the store), and I didn’t do any KB work but I ended up getting the remote last Friday so I was ready to resume progress. I woke up early on Saturday (8:30am on a Saturday!) to take pictures. I took a lot and with the remote and the Lazy Susan, I was able to take 6 statues. Not bad! It’ll take me a while before I can color correct them all and put them on my website.

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I spent Saturday night working on this “Rotator” code which I got from a site. The problem was that 1/2 the code was obfuscated…so I had to un-obfuscate (I don’t know if that’s a word). That was pretty tricky but I ended up getting it to work (pretty proud of myself for that actually).

You can see one of my most complete pages (at this point), here.
The rotator’s looking really good :)
(Note: if I used the Lazy Susan and used the camera’s 10s timer, pushing the button would cause the camera to move very slightly in angle – but small differences in angle lead to large distances at where the shot is…so without the remote, the background wouldn’t stay as consistent as it is now…it would move and thus, be unusable)

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Here’s my current status for the site.

As you can see, I still have a long, loooong way to go. But I’m getting there :)

I can’t believe I’ve been working on this project for 2.5 months. Part of me thinks it’s so little time and that I’ve accomplished a lot during that time. Another part of me thinks I shoulda had this site done by now…but there’s a lot of work and the camera stuff has taken me a really long time to get comfortable with.