October 2009 Archives

A self-reminder

I want remember this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235291.aspx

I've googled for long time and now I want to be sure to know where it is.

Rediscovering C++

It's time to renew my C/C++ knowledge.
I spent many hours in C and C++ programming and today I'm going to be annoyed with that language. But programming languages are so similar to human languages: they change, evolve and surprise us!
So I'm looking for new aspects of C++ languages that I've never used or I don't know yet.
My first stop in this path is on SIMD and other techniques for fast numerical programming with gcc

I'd like to introduce in my coding style a new consciousness!

Programma 101 - Memory of the future

I've added to my exhibition dome the project "Programma 101 - Memories of the future"
I've worked for make an old computer able to direct autonomusly a movie. I've presented this work in Siggraph 2009, If you want to know more about the project visit: www.101project.eu
In my exhibition dome you can watch the video of the talk!

The exhibition is going to open

I've just completed the structure of the exposition area of my web site:


welcome_dome1.jpg

I've named it dome, to evocate the big building that houses exhibitions.
Also because it is my free area -> freedom -> freeDOMe -> dome :-)

I've chosen to present the all the content of the dome area by comics.
Now it is still empty but I'm going to publish something soon: stay tuned.

PS.
Secial thanks to Michelangelo: he helped me to define the best strategy to handle the baloons.

Stereoscopic test

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I'm testing the Blender plugin BStereoOffAxisCamera_1_4.py
developed by Sebastian Schneider 
You can download and test the result from my blip.tv account: http://matteodesimone.blip.tv/file/2686921/

It didn't work, there is a lot of ghost effect :-(

I've set the camera separation to 65 (but I've also try with 300) and the focal distance to 20 to be sure to have the subject with the right 3D effect.

wrong_stereosettings.png
I'm going to investigate the problem and testing other techniques as changing the values of "Shift X" and "Shift Y" camera parameters.