This week was spent on getting the point splatting to work in our OOCViewer. Right now, normals are calculated for each voxel independently. This can either be done during runtime or in a pre-processing step. …
Month: February 2014
IPD Fix. Starting stylus integration.
The issue that I was having last week with two images appearing was fixed today. The solution to this problem was to make the inter-Pupillary Distance (IPD) smaller. The IPD is the distance between the …
Not as easy as it looks…
…has been my on-going experience with the copper taffeta experiments. My second attempts didn’t even make a dent in the taffeta fabric for the first day or so. I left it in the bath (because, …
Tiling and Hosting and Post-Its
First tiling of the large image done, just as a test (only used plain outline of onion) Using the Bramus adaptation of various tiling scripts, this version was written as a Photoshop plug-in so it …
ReKinStruct : The Hardware-Software Battle
So, I was trying to obtain PCDs from the Kinect and in order to do so, I wanted to read something from the Kinect. Like I mentioned in the previous post, I had PCL and …
ReKinStruct – PCL : Check
So, the aim was to get PCDs from Kinect as soon as possible so I can start working with the point cloud data. On the way, I stumbled into getting the hang of how Kinect …
3D Space Exploration
This week I read through the documentation and got acquainted with both the Leap Motion and the ZSpace SDK’s. An obstacle in this project is that the leap motion is very particular in the way …
Acid etching copper taffeta
My first round of testing was etching conductive fabric to create circuits. I’m working with a sample of copper-coated taffeta from LessEMF. Working off of this tutorial, I began by screen printing a design onto …
Maps and Tiles
The files for the project are quite large, it takes about 5 minutes to save the largest files. (I know, I know, of course a 32k x 32k image is going to take a long …
Conversations and Reference Sources
I have had several helpful conversations over the past week, and there have been many good thoughts and suggestions regarding this project. Kandis Elliot – Scientific Illustrator: Botany Dept./Zoology Dept. Kandis had lots of advice and was …