Engadget has a nice piece on some Georgia Tech students who built a digitally assisted pool table using a webcam, an LCD projector, and computer vision techniques. Cool idea. Would have been even cooler if they would have implemented some sort of vision based UI system where you could ask the program to compute a shot for you (targetting how to get a certain ball in the pocket or something). Regardless, good job guys!
Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Digitally Assisted Billiards
Saturday, December 13th, 2008Matrix + Windows = Awesome
Monday, November 10th, 2008Another great College Humor original video.
The Concept of Superman can Limit Plot Complexity
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008As shown in this video. Still my favorite super hero, though.
3..2..1..Resume Posting YouTube Videos…
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Carmen has indicated that she needs more help procrastinating at work, so I’ll do my part.
These gems are from a recent gem that was on Digg.
Magical Flashback to my Childhood
Thursday, October 4th, 2007This video takes me back to when I was a kid. If you don’t watch the video, it shows a magic trick in which you appear to bend a fork but actually don’t. I had video that taught me magic tricks as a kid and I showed this particular trick to my next door neighbor Andrew. Problem was, I didn’t show him the final part fast enough (where the fork isn’t actually bent). Being the competitive kids we were, he quickly grabbed his own spoon and bent it for real. I think my mom still has that spoon that we partially were able to bend back to the right shape.
Star Wars ASCIIMATION
Friday, August 24th, 2007I think I’ve sent this around to people via email, but never blogged it. Here is a version of the first Star Wars movie, done entirely in character art. This project deserves some props if for nothing else than the sheer amount of effort. Or insanity.
(what reminded me of this was this digg article about the original Star Wars trilogy done in animated gif)
Scaling down an image? Get rid of the irrelevant stuff
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Found this interesting video on College Humor by way of Digg. Not your usual College Humor fodder; this describes a method for re-targetting images by removing the least relevant part. Very interesting.
UPDATE: The creator of this technology has joined Adobe. Good for him (and for the people who will get to use his technology). I really wish it wasn’t Adobe, though, their software is crappy.
College Humor Movie Parodies
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Here are a couple great College Humor movie parodies that I’ve run into over the last few weeks:
He’ll be back…
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007While I’m making up for lost blogging time by posting random YouTube videos, here’s another good one.
So Superman had it right all along…
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Flying around the earth at supespeed was the way to go…