Maine Sunset

Keyboard Hack - Build Montage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIud4KHWA9E

Took me long enough to get this up. It's only a a minute and a half of your life that you're losing. If you didn't want to read my Hack write-up out of laziness, this video/slide show is for you.

More Panoramic Shots

Microsoft Might Be Onto Something...

Some of you people might have noticed a Microsoft Ad that's been making rounds lately. You know, little cute girl, digital camera, taking panoramic shots and stitching them together effortlessly with Windows Live Photo Gallery. And as much as I find the "I'm a PC" ads fairly empty, this one caught my eye.



Panoramic Compositing has always been something I've been meaning to do, but doing it on Photoshop is utterly mind-numbing and time consuming. I'd even tried enlisting Brett to help me, but of course, he's all over the place in terms of attention span (I mean that in the nicest way possible, Brett). So I bit the bullet and decided to try Windows Live, despite loving my Mac. The results are, in short, amazing for a freely downloaded program with a simple interface (And a Microsoft program, at that).



Yes, there are mistakes here and there, but as a whole the impressions of my images were faithfully rendered. It took maybe about a minute for WL Photo Gallery to composite my pictures (about 5-8 2000x3000 JPEGs) and that's thoroughly acceptable in my opinion, considering doing a single one of those myself took 40+ minutes. And that's without the post-processing and tweaking that Brett would've wanted to do.



In conclusion, this is one feature that Microsoft maybe has the right to be bragging about. They've been working hard to improve their user experience and this makes their Windows Live suite slightly more formidable in the face of suites like iLife '09 (though that has Face-Recognition, which is even more drool-worthy than panoramic stitching).

My Site: Basic functionalities are back.

After lots of procrastination on homework, I am semi-pleased to announce that my site is back in action... kind of. The new look may or may not be an improvement, but trust me, the behind the scenes stuff is actually *kind of* cool.



The look I'm using is a result of my losing the color gradients I'd used for the previous generation of my site. I seemed to have forgotten to back up my files before I reinstalled Windows over winter break. So instead of blending up my own colors and themes up in Photoshop, I resorted to a basic 3D Modeling program a friend had introduced me to before. So instead of using Photoshop to generate a 3D effect (like curved edges or glow-y buttons), everything you see here is actually based on an image rendered from a 3D model.

Life of Garlic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwwgq1eobg



A little side project out of boredom. Their names are Earl, Jupiter, Allen, Dimitri, and Joseph. They are about 10 days old. Time lapse taken by my Macbook.

A Frail Attempt at Gifting Music

Please cut me some slack, I have neither the time nor the experience that insane people like Brett Taylor have to sit in front of the piano and play by heart... but it's a pretty fair attempt for an engineering major with other things to do besides practice all day...