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Oh wii

December 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

All of the wii experiments I saw in the past few months were based on the built-in accelerometer: shake, move and create responding visuals. But did you know that it also had infrared camera with hardware blob tracking? Well I didn’t and just discovered it tonight on the website of Johnny Chung Lee where stunning […]

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Back from Paris

April 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I just came back from Paris where I animated a second Processing workshop there. It went super well again, thanks to Craslab (cheers Agnès and Jean-Noël) and all the participants who were strongly motivated to learn and code. Cheers to them too ! As usual, two days were damn too short, but I have the […]

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Tags: OpenGL · Tech

Pomme d’amour

December 8th, 2006 · 10 Comments

So this is it. I finally got my hands on a brand new MacBookPro notebook, being my first Macintosh computer I have ever owned. The switch from PC/Windows was less difficult than I first thought, though I am still feeling a bit uncomfortable with the keyboard and shortcuts (” Where the hell are the ‘{}’ […]

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Tags: Processing · Tech

Human computation

October 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I was randomly browsing the web when I came across this video. This is a very dynamic and funny talk given by Luis von Ahn showing how the processing power of a human brain can be used to improve image search on the web by playing fun games (ESP game and Peekaboom).
This brilliant idea […]

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Sketching 2d rigid body physics

October 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment

If only my college lessons had looked like this !

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