I have posted a tool (and also an ajax version) to use the imagemagick command line in a web browser. This will allow you to edit your pictures and photos and do all sort of interesting transformations.

I have posted an ajax version of the segmentation and false coloring application here.

This application produces an artistic rendering of an image. The options are to have the image rendered in a patchwork of random colors, or to have similar areas of the image colored in the average color of that image. Looks sort of like the image has been smoothed out.

I chose to mess around with the pseudo-physics package this evening. I probably should have done work, or slept. Probably slept.

Anyway, I cleaned up the code…er, all the physics stuff is in one place. More importantly, there are controls for the equations.

The green box in the top right sends parameter info to trace. No use to you.

The dark blue circle is friction. Friction greater than 1 means things accelerate on their own accord.

The translucent purple dot is the black-hole, center of the universe.

You’ll figure the rest out.

[Pseudo Physics Simulator]

The charlesdietrich.com website has gotten a new look. I expect to asymptotically approach the ideal template, so there are future changes in store. However, I think this is a big improvement. Though not as big as an improvement as the previous change, from the WordPress default theme to the Connections theme…ah, asymptotes!

The current theme is equiX, with a few customizations. There’s a blog that I visit sometimes that uses this theme, so I hope I don’t look too similar.

The image is a current screenshot from my research project…I’ll probably use a photograph later, like I did for Julie (I designed the website, but the excellent photo is courtesy of Luke Walker).

You come up with neat images whilst doing computer vision. I just came across this one which I produced as part of my Detecting Repeated Shapes in Images Project:

Would you like to take a guess what it is?

When I was at TelekomNet, I was teaching the graphic designer Alex Fedorov to write some code. He was recursively creating nested tables, and forgot to close a tag. The result was something like this:

James Patten and Ben Recht created AudioPad, which is a mixing board for DJ’s. The functions are projected onto the tabletop, and the user selects them by moving checkers around. The checkers are tracked by an antenna array. It’s a really neat interface, and it’s almost like having many different mice to work with, instead of the computer idiom of having one mouse that can transform itself into an object by selecting the object. For starters this gives us with two hands more expressive powers, and it also lets two or more people collaborate.

It occurs to me that painters and 2d artists generally work with one hand, whereas sculptors sometimes work with two.