A Clogwog in Oz

The Hump, Cape Patterson

tom — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:17:32 +0000

surfed The Hump, Cape Patterson. a beautiful day and a nice beginning of the new season. about 4 foot with a slight onshore. roh, benny, me. also saw 2 whales towards the end of the surf.

The Hump, Cape Patterson

photoshop for video

tom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:39:34 +0000

in reply to the previous post this amazing technology to edit video

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.

3D photoviewer mark II

tom — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:25 +0000

some amazing stuff from: istartedsomething.com done by microsoft research and the university of Washington:

if you think you’ve seen what’s possible with Photosynth, then you’ve seen nothing yet. The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research who only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and their technology demonstration “Photosynth” have again pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved by intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web.This week at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world some even better technology they’ve been working on which they call “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos“. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s damn cool. If you’re not much of a reading person like me, take a look at this video demonstration. (Watch it till the end)
This technology is much better than Photosynth simply because instead of just presenting individual photographs in a cool 3D environment, it actually manipulates the photo to give you a seamless and more lifelike experience. It’s one thing to click around different photos taken at a particular museum, it’s a whole other story to “walk through” the museum.

Now if you want to know exactly how they did it, and you’re a rocket scientist, take a look at their conference paper. For the rest of us, just take it for granted.

how the other 1% live

tom — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:28:51 +0000

i’ve had this panoramic image for a while now but never knew how to publish it. it’s about 6 photos combined, 20 meg and you just can’t put that on a website. but now i might have found a way. look at the next photo, you can pan and zoom in. see if you can spot the Linfox helicopter.

too many clouds to see the meteorites

tom — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:39:35 +0000

a very windy night

slow motion lightning

tom — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:23:39 +0000

Randy Pausch Last Lecture

tom — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:24:13 +0000

via TechCrunch by John Biggs on 7/25/08

Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and worked on the Alice program, an animated educational system for high school and college students.

It’s not difficult to find educators in CS who are as personable as Dr. Pausch was but it is definitely rare to find one filled with such kindness and an undeniable love for life.

“But we don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well,” said Dr. Pausch, who urged the graduates to find and pursue their passion. He put an exclamation point at the end of his remarks by kissing his wife, Jai, and carrying her off stage.

He is survived by his wife and children Dylan, Logan, and Chloe. Donations can be made to the Carnegie Mellon’s Randy Pausch Memorial Fund.

His last lecture:

I know the video is long, but do yourself a favor and watch it !!

Update: I also found this other video of him that i watched before:

3 ft woolies

tom — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:27:25 +0000

an early morning surf at woolamai, philip island. about 3 ft, glassy but not that flash and very busy towards the end (so you didn’t miss that much lee). just roh and me.

it must be good, with this many people out there

is it ?

whatcha gunna do ?

tom — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:55:01 +0000

surfed gunnamatta at about 4 foot and bumpy. hard to catch waves and the water is getting nippy. roh, lee, me.

the lefthander at the first carpark

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The cure for peak oil & global warming, in one shot ?

tom — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:34:20 +0000

looks like Dr. Nebel has let go some hints that the WB-7 experiment is producing the results that Dr. Bussard said he got with WB-6 and they are already thinking of skipping an intermediate step to go to a full size next version.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/1/203528/4445/43/545079