Been playing around with designs for the Clarity logo. There’s something about the yin-yang which I find pleasingly minimalist.
It lives in a browser, it eats pixels for breakfast, and mates with whatever ugly looking thing comes to it first. Can you guess what it is yet?
My Organism project.
The Organism project is coming along nicely, and should be mostly complete by the end of this week, yay for finishing early. Have a play with the semi-working prototype below and tell me what you think.
Me and Jack my partner for this project have just been ironing out our ideas, and we’ve settled on ‘Life in a petri dish‘. We decided this would be an ideal environment to experiment with simulating small artificial organisms. It also allows us to introduce interaction using virtual tools as if you were looking through a microscope lens playing with a cell culture.
Basing this on the idea of genetic evolution, each organism would have individual characteristics which would hinder or help the survival of that creature. Using microscopic tools new organisms can be born into the petri dish, or be killed and moved around with a suction tube/prodding stick.
Creatures may interact with each other, even mate or destroy each other. When mating occurs the ‘genes’ from the two parent organisms combine to create a new individual, which may have a few new genes of it’s own from mutation. This evolving could give it an advantage over other organisms, resulting in good genes spreading throughout the population.
We’ve also been toying with the idea of introducing viruses or nano-bots into the mix, which would interfere with the normal lives of organisms, but this is preliminary thinking.
Having the phone right outside my door I’m the one who gets to it first in in my house. Before uni I had no idea how many weirdoes and cold callers phone up day after day. Especially Indians putting on a bad english accent calling to tell me ‘My name is Bill and I’m calling from London (Yeah sure you are) to say you have been selected for a very special prize’. It gets kinda boring to tell them to bugger off every time in the nicest possible way, so I like to have a little fun with them at their expense.
Then I come across a recording of a guy who has taken it to the next level. Just listen to this.
Automatic photo pop-up is a project by Derek Hoiem demonstrating how computers can interpret a flat image and convert it into an immersive 3D scene.
Image interpretation, the ability to see and understand the three-dimensional world behind a two-dimensional image, goes to the very heart of the computer vision problem.