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by GrantS 12y ago
I ran this on a Mac, should work on Linux as well. Since it may not be obvious, the "blender" command line executable is located within the regular Mac OS X Application bundle for blender that you would download from the web: &#x
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by GrantS 12y ago
To follow up with a working example of python via headless blender on the command line, the following 4 lines interactively get me an image of a sphere saved to /tmp/.png ./blender -b --python-console >>> import bpy
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by GrantS 12y ago
I have experience running blender in a completely scripted manner, from geometry creation, to camera motion, to rendering. These links may help: (1) Blender 2.6, Python Manual with full API and Tutorials http://wiki.blender.org&
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by GrantS 12y ago
Microsoft Research published an early version of what you describe in 2004, "Image-Based Interactive Exploration of Real-World Environments": Paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/gro
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by GrantS 12y ago
I would argue the "significant landmark" problem has essentially been solved as a side effect of online photo sharing sites (originally Flickr, now everything) -- the most frequently photographed things are the landmarks, and the
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by GrantS 12y ago
If anyone wants to visualize how a variety of basis transforms (including Fourier/DFT, Eigenvectors/PCA, Haar Wavelets, Random basis, and Identity basis) can be applied to images, I created this a few years ago which seems to have
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by GrantS 12y ago
Here are the STL and Blender files for a different 3D printed clock designed by Christoph Laimer in case you'd like to print your own: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:328569/#files This 5-minute video is really w
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by GrantS 12y ago
To each his own, but I just want to point out that your examples of web searches and email require that SOME third party be involved because they are, by definition, attempts to reach a computer somewhere else on the internet. In contrast,
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by GrantS 12y ago
One thing I love about reading old papers/essays/articles is that it makes it so clear the particular things we take for granted now. It is remarkably hard to step back and get that objective point of view about the current state
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by GrantS 12y ago
Very cool! Some hopefully helpful feedback: Running Safari on a Mac, and the text cursor visually shows up in a different place than the actual editing occurs, making editing tough. It is off by an amount that varies largely when I change
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by GrantS 12y ago
PBS aired a fascinating documentary earlier this year about an orangutan that was taught sign language in the 70s by being raised on a college campus as a "human child", explores both the personal side and ethical issues. I was s
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by GrantS 12y ago
I almost didn't read the article due to the headline but the fMRI studies (which are really the focus of the article) are fascinating, and there is a surprisingly deep discussion about the line between idioms and metaphors -- particula
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by GrantS 12y ago
Thanks for the link, but perhaps you meant last month? The tear down appears to be from 33 days ago.
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by GrantS 12y ago
Indeed, architects have definitely been using the Unreal Engine for quite awhile, even before it started looking this good. Here's an article from 2007: http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-12-21/unreal-ar
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by GrantS 12y ago
It is never made explicit in the video but imagine that corporations are the current dominant super-organism on which the economy depends. Humans are only designing and building cars because corporations have no better way of getting that j
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by GrantS 12y ago
This work comes out of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which was not on my radar before today. Apparently just last week they released some even more impressive work (in the sense that I would not have
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by GrantS 12y ago
Ha, yes, that is a pretty accurate assessment of what they did there.
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by GrantS 12y ago
It's more of a motivation or justification of the work than anything -- they want to apply the paper's methods to control marine-related engineering systems which are becoming more important to the future of Taiwan. It sounds like
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by GrantS 12y ago
Strangely enough, I just started getting spam from SAGE this morning about subscribing to their Sociology journals. My area is computer science so it seems they're just spamming university email addresses. Not too classy.
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by GrantS 12y ago
Using the lower level AVFoundation classes to start a capture session, any app could absolutely get live camera access to either front or back camera without the user knowing anything. I know because my app shows a live preview to the user
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by GrantS 12y ago
You can, of course, navigate to settings and toggle the switch for anything you accidentally denied, but I wonder how many users know that. Also, unless a developer explicitly adds some message reminding the user that they have already den
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by GrantS 12y ago
I had somehow missed the news from WWDC that accessing the camera now requires explicit permission from the user. I'm really surprised camera privacy took this long to arrive, and I wonder what the reasoning was for not implementing it
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by GrantS 12y ago
One of the most incredible parts is that they've already run feature detection on all 100M images/videos and extracted 50TB of: "SIFT, GIST, Auto Color Correlogram, Gabor Features, CEDD, Color Layout, Edge Histogram, FCTH, Fu
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by GrantS 12y ago
This seems logical, especially in light of the Aperture news, but I'm not so sure -- all references to the new Photos app, including the demo at WWDC, refer to it as a viewer for your iCloud-stored photos. It's possible that inste
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by GrantS 12y ago
Watching the video, it was odd that he had absolutely nothing to say about potential uses of AI when asked that question. I'm assuming it was either a question so out of left-field that he just wasn't prepared or interested in di
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by GrantS 12y ago
Right, while disruption is theoretically good for consumers, the major effect I've seen from Amazon over the past 15 years is that nearly every physical bookstore around me has closed. I would prefer a world without Amazon to a world
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by GrantS 12y ago
My city is getting more of these and I always check before turning right. But last week I witnessed a car-bike collision that I'm unsure how to ever avoid: traffic in my lane was backed up to a standstill, but oncoming cars were flowin
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by GrantS 12y ago
Interesting! B&W makes total sense. Low res also makes sense for head tracking but I guess that means pupil tracking is out of the question. Regarding low framerate, like lower than 30 fps? I would have thought continuous perspectiv
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by GrantS 12y ago
As a computer vision researcher, I am impressed that Amazon has made the most computer-vision-centric mobile device seen to date. I have no idea if it will catch on, but having a dedicated physical button for object recognition is huge ins
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by GrantS 12y ago
From the Kickstarter description, they're leveraging existing open source software: "The onboard software is based on the 3D Robotics open-source code" Also note, they DO NOT include hazard avoidance in the current product: &

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