Month: August 2007

Google COLLADA

i look forward to actually see collada in action

It’s not journalism

Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden.

from that sample it appears that retardation is the biggest threat with these hacks. bin laden a threat to them personally?

XOHM branding thoughts

I wonder if there’s real, studied, empirical reasoning behind all the branding that telcos do with their various services, or whether it’s just a sign of corporations needing something to do with all those people in the marketing department.

an industry

Trademark Ads

American Airlines complains a number of times that the advertisements triggered by its trademarks lead to sites that sell both American Airlines tickets and those of its competitors. So what? Any retailer can advertise that it sells X even though, in its store, it displays X next to competitive offerings.

lame. why dont you fix your decrepit infrastructure instead, AA?

Brute Force Data

filling holes in images, finding and segmenting objects, recovering 3D scene geometry from an image, and inserting objects into new scenes.

Christopher Hitchens

i liked his talk

Lunar Ark

Kilian Engel, an instructor at the International Space University who is involved in post-doomsday research, said the lunar archive is actually Plan B.

Image search to solve problems

Rather than attempting to model the object to be inserted and then adjust the perspective, scale, and lighting, Alyosha suggests we change the problem to finding an appropriate object that already has the right perspective, scale, and lighting.

A Star with a Comet Tail

It’s amazing to discover such a startlingly large and important feature of an object that has been known and studied for over 400 years. Mira’s comet-like tail stretches more than 13 light years.

Photo-Auto Maps

Google Maps “Street View” was available in … 1907