tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81785772012-02-16T00:39:42.967-08:00Rob Chiniquyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903244701324061603noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178577.post-306039531839083432009-03-03T23:54:00.000-08:002009-03-04T14:17:24.894-08:00

I thought I'd try uploading the animation to Vimeo to compare video compression with the Flickr video. This is a marked improvement, but I notice there are a few funny jerks in the flow of the animation that don't occur in the original mpg when played by Quicktime. I generated this with ffmpeg so I'd believe the flaw originated with me, but Quicktime will play the original mpg flawlessly. The

Rob Chiniquyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903244701324061603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178577.post-38658486216233941652009-02-20T00:21:00.001-08:002009-02-21T07:33:10.944-08:00

Animation is unsatisfying in many ways. The 3d model can't convey the feeling of holding the puzzle in your hands and looking for the next move. No matter what angle the camera is at, something interesting is happening on the other side. Also, the animation itself doesn't prove that this design can be used to make a real Burr puzzle; but it can. Any friends who received puzzles as gifts may

Rob Chiniquyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903244701324061603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178577.post-67034033418112570322009-01-28T12:37:00.001-08:002009-01-28T12:41:51.496-08:00

This is a visualization of the color distribution in the Barack Obama HOPE poster.I tried RGB space projection a bunch of different ways. At first I went with metaballs. Blender has a native metaball type, but it didn't like adding many thousands of points to it. The performance hit of my data size multiplied by my learning curve was slowing down my fun, so I moved on.When I tried out my own

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