Since Twitter is never far away when I’m working on something, I decided to consistently use the hashtag #thesis in all my tweets concerning my thesis. An RSS feed to grab them can be found here. When the deadlines creep closer and the pressure gets cooking, this feed might not …
Update 2013: Fixed link to RenderMonkey, which has been discontinued. Also, this post is a bit outdated. Have a look at Cuda for a GPU-based language with good debugging support. Because my current Suggestive Contours/Suggestive Highlights implementation is written using OpenGL calls for rendering, it was best to start work on …
The last few months my jaw dropped to the floor so many times reading about and experiencing the new DRM systems deployed by game publishers I think it’s going to stay there forever. A couple of tales straight out of the hell a paying customer has to go through to get …
In the second semester of this year, I’ll have to apply the suggestive contours algorithm I’ve implemented in an interesting way, in order to have some experimental results upon which I can base my thesis. A report on what I found out behind the cut.
I love mashups. Ever since a producer called Danger Mouse took (in his own words) “a very white thing and a very black thing” to create the Grey Album, I’m amazed how combining two or more songs, samples or snippets can create a new experience that sheds a new light …
In response to Google’s blogpost concerning several attacks which were targeted at human rights activists GMail accounts during december, supposedly by the Chinese government, Chinese officials have this response (Jiang Yu, Chinese Foreight Ministry spokeswoman): China’s internet is open and the Chinese government encourages development of the internet. No it …
Best songs of 2009. For some reason, 35. Youtube links where available. Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom Dark, soulful hip-hop. Horace Andy at his best. Animal Collective – My Girls Trippy synths, but the melody just keeps on sticking. The Kleptones – Voodoo Sabotage A mashup of two epic …
By Emily Horne from asofterworld. “found posed at Ikea”
Some more features implemented in my thesis project: Stroke fading (soft lines + anti-aliasing) Suggestive Highlights (still some tweaking – in combination with suggestive contours they give a false “embossed” impression) Various optimizations for time-coherent contours (see this follow-up paper). The ‘flickering’ issues I had with changing viewports have been …