Arquivo do Autor: lucaslongo

Nature of Code progress

Rewriting the Male Female program into an ecosystem… added food, birth, death and dna (weight, speed, health, and lifespan).
Next step is to introduce attraction between males and females, going to mating area and finally inheritance.

The Sphere – assembly figured out!

After quite some trying to decide how to name, extrude and connect each ring segment of the Sphere I finally changed strategy to notched connections and came up with a naming convention to recognize each piece when they are laser cut.
The Maya MEL script I used for the initial setup lines can be found HERE and the “methodology” used HERE.
Now just have to figure out what are the tolerances on the laser cutter for 1/16″ plexy to finish the rings, export to Rhino then to Illustrator and finally to the Laser Printer itself.
Here are some pictures of today’s progress:

Google Analytics

I have recently included Google Analytics on my blog and now I am addicted to it… you can track where people are coming from to see your blog, how often they come back, what page they read and much more.
Maybe not such a novelty but I found it fascinating and very easy to implement… check it out HERE!
And it seems like the more I post, the most visitors I get – obvious? Sure… but fascinating to see how it spreads. At first it was only people in Brazil and here in NY… now somehow it is reaching as far out as Japan, Indonesia, India…
Yeah yeah… geeky… but very cool 🙂

My Google Maps

So Google has this new feature – My Maps – create your own map and post your points of interest… post geocoded photos… and even videos I’ve heard… Going to work on that to see how it plays out…
You can check it out

Extraordinary People – Daniel Tammet

Worth watching this entire video…

Doing math with shapes, effortlessly – could this be the future of computing? What if computers could “number crunch” looking at shapes instead of actual numbers? Could be a very interesting way of looking at complex problems dealing with turbulence and multiple variable systems such as weather forecasting.

Also, at the very end it has an image of Calatrava’s Milwaukee Art Museum kinetic building actually moving!

Expanding Interactive Video Final

Going to continue with my Eye Tracking idea… here are some pictures of the device I have built…

Eye Tracking

Need to change/enhance the application:

  1. Improve eye tracking code
    1. Edge detection on pupil
    2. Calculate relative position of cornea reflection and pupil
    3. Calibration procedure
  2. Instead of pulling pictures from Flickr, use “local” pictures
    1. Select the pictures in a “meaningful” way – by color, theme or emotion?
  3. Show the “winner” after each slide
  4. Log what pictures are winners
  5. Create a web page with results

Still working on the “purpose” of this project other than the rating tool… want to try to draw some kind of conclusion from the “experiment”.

Some other ideas that are swirling in my head:

  1. Blur areas of picture/video eyes are not looking at
    1. User using the eye tracking device would see it all in focus
    2. “Audience” would see the in-focus and out of focus areas
  2. Present an out of focus video/picture. Wherever user looks at more, it start to come into focus