ArtScience

My Great Grandfather was turn of the twentieth century Scottish Master painter Charles Dolton Robertson who's father was the borough surveyor for Ayrshire, My grandfather after WWI was close friends with the famous tramp who wrote the book explaining the markings the homeless ex-servicemen used on walls of homes in Scotland to inform the next visitor the welcome they would receive i.e. will provide shelter, a meal, beware of the dog, don’t abuse hospitality of kind family.

The first Horror film was made in 1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the truly disturbed created a fantasy ignoring the harsh realities of life and used that illusion of reality on others, Adolf Hitler started out as an unaccomplished artist in the biscuit tin style, first he went for what he saw as undesirables undocumented the Gypsy's ethnically Indian decent, the Gay's and when no one complained the Jews the rest is history.

Met the UK Passport identity expert in 2015 and discussed geometry ratio studies of the face from Photo ID and 3d printing, created optimised high detail Virtual Reality model for use with mobile devices, annotations include medical observations i.e. Eye veins and Dilation, small scares, skin conditions, colour accuracy High Dynamic Range HDR Image and lighting

Hollywood Film stars are now stating in their contract clauses that the technology is not used as it highlights where they have undergone cosmetic surgery.

In the past Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) code was used in CAD software to utilise multiple processors, using multi threading cycles, today complex graphics processor hungry tasks including image recognition photogrammetry utilise multi core CPU and GPU cores in modern graphics processors, this example uses Nvidia CUDA cores to increase the thread count the calculations carried out at once greatly reducing processing time.

Graphics processor CUDA, Raytracing or Tensor cores are used for AI image processing.

Technical colour advice to film industry FX artist, Head of 3D Scanning at Pinewood Studios work includes James Bond and Star Wars films to name a few.

Who owns the legal rights to your digital twin, alive or dead, Deep faking is being used to create images and video from only a few images while digital tools develop to identity them.

3D printing specialist for LGS part of the London Graphic Centre, specialist for the creative industry in London, the Digital Colour management, workflow, and print specialists, Clients included the major Architectural, Automobile, Product and Packaging design studio's and Creative Design and Branding agencies. Held creative industry Lunch and Learn events, talks and was a spokesperson to the media, including the Wall Street Journal, GQ, The Gadget Show and Print industry journalists.

In partnership with iMakr Ltd consumer retail store, 3D printing Bureau service and production of MiniYou Figurines, models of people and objects that where 3D scanned at luxury department stores John Lewis, Harvey Nickles, Selfridges. 3D printed models included the high profile television presenters in UK, Europe and the most popular to presenter in Latin America.

“His special attention, precision, responsible manner, know - how and willingness to always do what was required to ensure the smooth running of the 3D printing service could be relied upon, for me John really is a 3D printing GURU..." production technician

Students and home Hobbiest, FDM 3D printing has carcinogenic particles equivalent to Teflon frying an egg and needs adequate ventilation, SLA resins are hazardous to the environment and have to be disposed of properly in waste disposal and can cause skin sensitisation and asthma, sintering powders are also harmful and should be used only in controlled workshop environments.

Photogrametry has now become the industry standard in film and Games industry character and object creation.

Trained in digital colour management by the top creative industry experts at LGS London Graphic Systems, (Part of the London Graphic Centre croup in Covent Garden) top DAM Digital Asset Management solution provider to creative industry, work flow. Used by many household names in food and drink packaging design.

Proofing for sign off and digital imaging e.g. Camera's, Monitors, and Printers, Calibration and ICC profiling in the digital workflow, Rip servers, for FOGRA and other sub straights, spot colours and metallics, accurately reproducing colours and brightness values across digital imaging devices, large format printers, digital watermarking, independent of manufactures. Digital colour CIE colour space and daylight brightness values.

"I found John to be very well connected, diligent and knowledgeable. In his role he displayed an excellent ability to communicate and train both our team and clients," "I learned a great deal from John and greatly appreciated his contribution."
Commercial Technical Director

The BAFTA’s are widely considered as the U.K. equivalent of the Oscars.

The 2019 AFC Asian Cup was the 17th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). and held in the United Arab Emirates from 5 January to 1 February 2019.

The last big international sporting tournament shortly before the Pandemic, The defending champions Australia were eliminated by the hosts UAE in the quarter-finals, Qatar gained there first title becoming champions beating Japan in the final. post pandemic Qatar won the 2024 AFC Asia Cup betting Jordan 3 - 1. On 10 Feb 2024.

Author of White paper on Computer Aided Design CAD for the GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY, inspectors of the work of the Royal Mint, and background Early and Late starter literacy support.