…are the way of the future.
Everyone’s familiar with the almost-ubiquitous QR codes. They appear no matter where you go - cereal advertisements, fliers for prom, even terrorist communications:
As a side note, I would like to thank Kaywa for their free QR code generator. Without their continuing support I would have to use something else, or else (heaven forbid) generate my own QR codes.
Now, QR codes are cool and all, but they’re a little bit commonplace now.
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After some tuning, here’s some updated images of my lab:
Notice the much higher color quality. Below is another example where the final image has been equalized:
A little bit like a modern art piece…
And, for the image processing nerds out there, here’s an image I used to debug the assorted curve. Bonus points if you figure out what everything means on it.
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At any rate, that’s all I’ve been able to do. Perhaps somebody more skilled/dedicated can do better?
In conjunction with the Lyst project, I’ve started work again on HDR photography. After all, it’s a game that suites itself to High Dynamic Range photography - the players want to be able to see all the details.
Standard images are taken at a single “exposure value”, which is a combination of shutter speed and f-number.
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Introduction While I may appear on the outside to be a cold, heartless programmer, on the inside I’m a normal person who celebrates Valentine’s day like anyone else. That is, by writing programs. (and people ask why I’m single…)
XKCD once did a version of Sierpinsky’s triangles, but using hearts: http://xkcd.com/543/. So I decided that I could write a program that could render these “triangles”, but for arbitrary shapes.
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So many projects! So little time!
The PC2 clone has been temporarily named PC3 (or PC Cubed, if you prefer), until a better name can be found for it. Also, I wrote up a little script that will do approximately what PC2 does, but optimized for a classroom environment.
Michael pulled together his resources and built a system as per the XKCD cloud watching experiment. This is the topic of today’s story, which is a true story, and covers some of the technical details.
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Amazon sure did have a lot of screw ups this year, no?
But has anyone gotten the wrong New Year’s Resolution yet? I distinctly resolved for true love and happiness, but I seem to have gotten somebody’s resolution to lose weight. And this person must have been freakin’ massive. Who else would want to lose 25 pounds?
So, if anyone out there was meaning to lose 25 pounds, but instead got true love and happiness, if you could please let me know.
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_Wow, it’s 2013 already? _I thought as I looked down the slopes around me. Time to boogie. I jumped into the fresh snow belly first and sped down the mountain, to my waiting friends at the bottom. I could see the tuna already. One tuna, two tuna, three tuna…
Alright, so maybe I overexerted myself a little bit on that bike ride, and the blood rushing to my muscles may have made me hallucinate a little bit.
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Actually, USACO is still classified, so I can’t tell you anything about it. Except that it was quite fun, really. Stay tuned for solutions.
As for the PillowPedia project, it turns out that computers really don’t run as well when your Mom flips the wrong breaker, if you catch my drift. I might try to restart the process again, but we’ll have to see. We really will.
Another project that I’ve started is Lyst.
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So, last week I learned about planets collided. I learned about orbital mechanics (or slept through that). I solved the three-body problem (in my sleep). After I woke up, I made a five-color map, by trisecting one of the corners. I flattened a globe (I really shouldn’t drive while asleep…)
And then, after I woke up and did some more CSS on ShuffleFlow. This coming week I intend to continue this work.
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A friend of mine, who teaches some classes at a religious school, was complaining about kids today don’t know what advent is. Seemed like a bad time to point out that I only know the part about telling stories.
But, regardless of my heretic-ness, happy advent 2012! Tell lots of good stories.
Before I get to my story, which is relatively short (and true!), I’ll mention ShuffleFlow.
And I’ll mention real quickly how behind I am.
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