That’s his final sentence in this interesting article by Robert Misik. Basically he touches good points about malls, how they are transforming our public spaces into private ones, how city center are trying to use this approach as well. It made me think to question what’s a city center really? How did a city [...]
So I am taking a class called Mainstreaming Information from Lisa Strausfeld The class started kind of mellow but I am really about the crowd overall. It could be a good discussion class and I am sure the outcomes of projects would be great. So Lisa wants us to propose a project about Information Visualization. [...]
So after 2-3 months of summer sleeping, let me say hi again. Yes, the school starts on Tuesday! It is going to be a tough final year. Bring it on!
Stefan and I were talking about the subject of pioneers of Generative Art today, a subject which came up talking about Joshua Davis’ situation, and [...]
The work and comment of Roger Ibars‘ about interaction make me think of it once again. This is not something new,it is the ongoing debate of how interaction should be between the user and the device/application. His approach is leaning towards entertainment, so right and agreeable, although I must say I find him kind of [...]
This is a workshop that Zachary Lieberman gave back in November in Barcelona.
a workshop examining image processing and computer vision via the processing environment
There are lots of handful and new info about video sensing, I also learned new terms.
One is image quantization. one explanation is here:
Many people don’t have full-color (24 bit per pixel) [...]
flocking systems are so entertaining. Craig Reynolds’ did lots of cool stuff with those back in 80’s. There are lots of papers to be read and lots of video to be watched. Probably one of the most impressive is the obstacle avoidance one. Watch the video here. He wrote a Siggraph paper called “Not [...]
Spending the last few days brainstorming about my final projects. Lately I am really interested in transforming data into “tangible bits” as Hiroshi Ishii coined the term. One example of this could be fraesmaschine by Ralf Baecker.
Nowhere is a landscape in the condition of development. the users of the german search-engine METAGER erode rivers, canyons [...]
Upon discovering receiver, I have come across to an article by Mark Pesce which is quite interesting. In article, he tells how our use of networks breaks down into three eras and we are on the verge of the third one which is understanding networks..
First, we built networks to help us find information. Google [...]
Vodafone’s receiver magazine is a neutral space where pioneer thinkers challenge you to discuss exciting, future-oriented aspects of communications technologies. Started four years ago as a platform for exchange about how innovations in this sector affect societies worldwide, receiver is now established as one of the industry’s key idea generators.
word! I was reading an old [...]
I am just keeping these for archives. There are bunch of pdfs popped up on the google, I haven’t checked them in details, here they are:
Computational Videography Videoshop: A New Framework for Video Editing
SPATIO-TEMPORAL TEXTURE SYNTHESIS AND IMAGE INPAINTING FOR VIDEO APPLICATIONS
Seamless Video Editing
VIDEO REGION SEGMENTATION BY SPATIO-TEMPORAL WATERSHEDS
Analysing Video Sequences using the [...]