Nov 09
when you have a 17 gigapixel camera:
http://www.yosemite-17-gigapixels.com
make sure you click the ‘zoomify’ option to browse around..
Aug 26
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.
Aug 15
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. |
Aug 14
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.
Aug 14
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a very windy night
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Jul 07
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
Apr 21
Dr. Richard Nebel from? EMC2 is continuing Dr. Robert Bussards Polywell Fusion ideas to produce a machine that can produce unlimited clean and safe electricity. I found a forum where Dr. Nebel and heaps of other people discuss the progress, problems and simulations on how this device will work. Indrek Mandre has created some very pretty simulations of the electric field and some animations of the electron paths here
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ps: if you have no idea what this is all about please watch Dr. Bussards presentation at the Google campus? this man could become famous for saving the world.
Jan 23
my flash-development skills would make me about 3 years old
Jan 11
i found a graph that plots the temperature of melbourne. After 2 days of 40 degree heat finally the cool change has come through..
Nov 25
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in melbourne in summer when it gets really hot, the cicadas will start up and make a deafening sound.you can walk past one but never locate them even when they makes this noise so i had no idea what they look like and how big they are.this afternoon i got a call from my friends saying that a cicada had just broken out of its shell and was waiting on their house for the evening, so i dropped by to have a look… THESE THINGS ARE BIG !! and weird looking too !!
around 15 cm including wings, very wide and they have 3 extra simple eyes (ocelli). this fella, the australian green grocer cicada is one of the loudest (120 dB ) insects in the world i just read on wikipedia which also has another photo of this one taken by trudy more photos here |
A toast to Leela. She showed us it’s wrong to eat certain things.