Welcome to the portfolio of Magnus Blix. I'm currently working on an improved version but until it is finnished this will have to do representing some of what I have done over the last years. The next version will have more thorough descriptions and downloadable sources. If you have any questions regarding any of the content do not hasitate to contact me.
Updated 2010-01-17.
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San Francisco Weblog Erathorn Källandet website Magenta - The MT Magazine Älvräddarna website Media Technology Days website Finding the way with A* Finding objects in noise Simulation of a trebuchet BFHQ.se Design GradeViz Lunch Hour Loubar.se - A music service MTAwards Design 3DStudio Max distance course Foodle - The food calendar 3D modeling of concept car Svenska Rallyportalen Blood spatter shader Captus - The idea database
Before my three month long stay in San Francisco this blog was made to keep friends and family informed with what was goning on on the other side.
Erathorn is a short 3D animated movie about mankind trying to find a new habitable planet. It was made in 3DStudio Max by five students and rendered with scan line. I have made the most of the exterior, ships and planets. In the hangar scene I worked alot with lighting and animation. Contact me for specific information.
Kallandet is a site made for a good friend of mine. It is based on a home made content management system with dynamic pages.
Magenta is a magazine by students for students at Campus Norrköping. During 08/09 I have been the head of photographers. My photos have been used as front cover all three issues. I have also taken alot of the photos used in the articles. I have written a number of articles for the magazine.
I have developed a website for the organization Älvraddarnas samorganisation. The first version was launched in 2003 but the design grew old. The new version is based on a home made content management system with dynamic page creation.
I was a part of the MTD group 09 and had the responsibility over the website. The site has a pretty sofisticated administration system so all the members of the MTD group can add and edit information.
This is a project where we wanted to test an intelligent algoritm such as A*. A* use heuristic information to calculate the nearest rout from a point A to a point B. The algorithm was implemented and changed into a program we call TaxiDriver in where you can find your way like on a GPS navigator.
This is the result of a project in advanced image algorithms. The goal of the project was to find objects in noisy pictures. There were different kinds of noise and some pictures were distorted by gradients. At the examination the program did well with full score.
A trebuchet is a medieval weapon that throws projectiles and the force is generated by a counterweight. The project aimed to make a close to real life model of the mechanism. To visualize the mathematical model a realtime application was made with openGL and ogre3D.
The network of fan sites for the swedish game frenchise Battlefield asked me to help them design their new site BFHQ.se. The site is a merge of the former four sites and is suppose to replace them. The new site was launched in mars 2009.
GradeViz is a tool for exploring data gathered by Skolverket in Sweden. The data contains the final grades in elementary school divided by municipales. With the program one is able to filter the data discovering trends and collations.
Lunch Hour is a short film made during a course in advanced video production and project management. We hade the possibility to use a studio with green screen so all the scenes are faked. All compositing are made in Adobe AE. The move was nominated as best visual content at the MT-Awards.
Electronic music produciton has been an importat part of my life for a couple of years. To reach out to the people I made a website where I could publish my creations. The site has focus on usability, search enginge optimization and content. All tracks are available for both streaming and download. All downloads are logged to make statistics over time to keep track over the popularity of sertain tracks.
MTAwars is an event taking place together with the Media Technology Days. I was asked to help out with the design of the page and also to make a new logotype.
The summer of 2008 I attended a distance cours in visualization in 3DStudio Max. This is the result of the different project in the course.
Foodle is a web service where you can make your foodplans weeks in advance. The weight of the project is the underlaying structure. All data is generated by PHP scripts that makes XML. The XML is then transformed with XSLT to XHTML and CSS. Foodle was nominated best interactive service at MTAwards 2009.
This is a project I made on my spare time. It started as drawings on a pice of paper during a math lecture. Since I just had been introduced to 3DStudio Max I wanted to try out modelling a car.
SRP is a portal for people with interest in motor sport. The site became the first version of a CMS (onionen) later used to create varius sites.
http://www.svenskarallyportalen.se
BSS is a shader programmed in RendermanSL. It is a procedurall algorithm that generates blood spatter with desiered input parameters such as sice, number of dots etc. It also has the time as a parameter and can therefor be animated.
Captus is the result of a big group project trying out different project methods developing software. I worked with the design team and developed the user interface. The goal was to maka a highly usable interface with good user interaction. Useability tests where made on both extreme users and others.