http://findtheothers.com/blog in search of a better name Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:24:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having settled on DI instead of FTIR for the time being, I went ahead and built a bigger, but still fairly small prototype table that i could use to develop the software (as opposed to a full-size one, since i dont have that much room in my office. The ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2008/03/24/the-second-prototype/ After much waiting (like four days, they were actually very quick, but as i have mentioned, i am very impatient) I got the fire-i camera: There it is, with my 3-ply film-negative visible light filter professionally taped onto the 4.3/no IR lens. Here are the obligatory IR shots: First, here is the apple ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2008/03/24/unibrain-fire-i-ir/ Ok, So I am a mac guy. Not a zealot mind you, but I develop software for the mac, it is what i do for a living. But, why reinvent the wheel? there is a great library for machine vision stuff already available: touchlib. I suggest if ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2008/03/24/multitouch-recognition-software/ First off, I wanted to do an FTIR surface. I wanted to start small, make an experimental surface just for testing and such. My first surface only measured 280mm x 190mm. As far as a camera, I was being very very impatient, and since I had some old external ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2008/03/24/the-ftir-prototype/ So, awhile back i saw this cool thing by Jef Han. And it turns out the genius of it is that doing that isn’t actually that expensive or difficult, so much that there is a budding international community of DYI Multitouchers (sounds kinky, i know). Since machine vision has always been ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2008/03/24/multi-touch-beginning-prototype-1/ Wow, I just spent 25 minutes on the phone with Apple Support. It was very professional and pleasant, even the time spent on hold listening to the likes of Moby and some groovy R&B, but completely unnecessary. A word to the wise — allow for shipping time so your AppleCare ... http://fatlabmusic.com/blog/2007/10/09/allow-shipping-time-when-extending-apples-limited-warranty-to-an-applecare-protection-plan/ Apple intro'd a bunch of things today: iMac, iLife '08, iWork '08, among other things — including up to 10GB of iDisk space. They're promising everyone will see it by August 14. I'm lucky enuf to have mine already. .mac System Preferences didn't show it immediately, but I went ... http://fatlabmusic.com/blog/2007/08/07/apple-event-today-my-mac-idisk-already-bigger/ Ever since i drew the first ‘Cuddly the Cuttlefish’ my girlfriend, Leonie has been obsessed with cartoon cuttlefish. It was meant to be a one-off exercise, i kinda picked a random subject: the cuttlefish, and i drew it. The first few i drew from reference pictures (gotta love ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2007/07/20/37/ Here is todays sketch, it is Cuddly the Cuttlefish! The original pencil sketch is there, and the digital re-draw. I dont use live trace or anything like that (although i have in the past, and it is really cool.) Instead i place the jpg of the pencil ... http://benbritten.com/blog/2007/07/05/cuddly-the-cuttlefish/ Since I have been doing more illustration lately ( a blast form the past, tho i have missed it) i decided to start in earnest to try and exercise my art muscle. In that vein i am trying to do a sketch of something or another every day. And ... http://findtheothers.com/blog/?p=34