{"id":21737,"date":"2019-11-21T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21737"},"modified":"2019-11-21T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:28:42","slug":"look-a-baby-carrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21737","title":{"rendered":"Look, a baby carrot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the lab today I was using my little procedural modeling system to create some computer graphic shapes. These are things that will go into my virtual reality world. While I was doing this, I was listening with one ear to a conversation of some of my colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>They were discussing snacks to get for a little end-of-week get-together tomorrow. We do those here from time to time, and it cheers people up, especially toward the end of the semester when work can get very intense.<\/p>\n<p>One of my colleagues said that we should get baby carrots. It took me about 10 seconds to modify the thing I was creating &#8212; changing the proportions, the color and the lighting &#8212; to make it look like a first approximation to a baby carrot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look,&#8221; I said, &#8220;a baby carrot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/baby_carrot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/baby_carrot.png\" alt=\"baby_carrot\" width=\"402\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/baby_carrot.png 805w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/baby_carrot-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 85vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t look exactly like a baby carrot. But for 10 seconds of work, it&#8217;s not too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the lab today I was using my little procedural modeling system to create some computer graphic shapes. These are things that will go into my virtual reality world. While I was doing this, I was listening with one ear to a conversation of some of my colleagues. They were discussing snacks to get for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Look, a baby carrot!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21739,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions\/21739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}