links for 2008-08-27
- This "Food for Thought" lunch box has been specially designed to hold fruit whilst protecting it from bruising or overheating. Children will be able to enjoy lunchbox fruit at its best which will in turn enocurage them to reach their 5-a-day target. A unique, colour changing thermo-spot on the underside of the box helps achieve this by indicating when food has overheated. This handy lunchbox also comes with 2 plastic pots, designed for holding grapes, nuts or diced fruit. It’s also dishwasher safe, but if you want it to last longer, then you should wash it by hand.
- "One idea is to look at what users do with the problem at hand and how they solve it, and then use their efforts to build the application. For our People Finder application we can do this by having a “Did you mean …� feature, which gives alternative name suggestions to users. These suggestions are not built by pre-defined logic but are based on the collective input of users."
- "We introduce a new representation for video which facilitates a number of common editing tasks. The representation has some of the power of a full reconstruction of 3D surface models from video, but is designed to be easy to recover from a priori unseen and uncalibrated footage. By modelling the image-formation process as a 2D-to-2D transformation from an object's texture map to the image, modulated by an object-space occlusion mask, we can recover a representation which we term the "unwrap mosaic". Many editing operations can be performed on the unwrap mosaic, and then re-composited into the original sequence, for example resizing objects, repainting textures, copying/cutting/pasting objects, and attaching effects layers to deforming objects. "
- hype cycle
- “A lot of people get lost in the world of computer simulation,� says Bill Burnett, executive director of the product design program at Stanford. “You can’t simulate everything.�
- “This video explains how pixels are assigned RGB values using a bayer filter system. It is one of the many bonus lessons on my new DVD, Photoshop Crash Course which will teach you how to think in Photoshop terms. This particular video was made to help explain how pixels are assigned colors and why this is important when working in Photoshop.�
- A simple diagram to describe a simple system, produced for a client recently to describe a possible virtuous cycle enabled by urban information strategies.
- Terracotta is an open source clustering product for Java. With Terracotta, JEE Applications scale simply and reliably without databases, EJBs or other complex infrastructure.
