Tag: graphics

CyberExtruder

you can now create your avatar from your passport picture inside SL. smart move for cyber extruder. their free version was fun to play with a couple years ago.

Brute Force Data

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

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.

Scene Completion

The algorithm patches up holes in images by finding similar image regions in the database that are not only seamless but also semantically valid. Our chief insight is that while the space of images is effectively infinite, the space of semantically differentiable scenes is actually not that large.

3D Animation From Photos

Motion Portrait has developed a remarkable program capable of taking still photos of peoples faces and rapidly animating them in 3D.

Text Rasterization

But it was only a “body show”; the main message of this article is. No more horizontal pixel grid! Really! From now on the horizontal grid is 1/256 of a pixel! You can shift the text horizontally by any fractional value, while the visual appearance does not change a whit! This “little detail” means a lot. How about this:

You can kern symbols with sub-pixel precision, not worrying about introducing extra blurriness.

You can freely scale the text as you want, with 100% guarantee of preserving a stable text layout that always fits other graphic elements.

You can always be sure that the calculated text width exactly corresponds with what you will see on screen and paper.

You can apply fancy vector effects such as “faux bold” and “faux italic” being sure the text will not look any blurrier.

there is really no need to still have crappy fonts on all platforms in 2007, as this article superbly demonstrates.

A Human Interactive Proof

Asirra is a human interactive proof that asks users to identify photos of cats and dogs.

Understanding photowork

Understanding photowork “most users rejected the use of any form of actual digital photo album software. Despite often having such software bundled with the camera when purchased, we saw no evidence of it being used.” software is an aftertought to manufacturers, and it shows.

Google Map Image Cutter

an application designed to take any image and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map. Using this tool, large images can be published on the web in a format that allows the user to pan and zoom using the standard Google Maps interface.

Master Color

The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?