Preface By no means do I claim have an impressive résumé, but I did want to share a trick I thought of to help me improve it. Unfortunately, like most ideas that I come up with on my own that I think are original, doing a few Google searches proves me wrong. Regardless, the following helped … Read more
It has now been exactly 1 year today since I moved from Atlanta to Silicon Valley. A *lot* can happen in such a relatively short period of time, and indeed, my life has changed forever. Here are some highlights of the past year, roughly in chronological order…
Tomorrow I change my life forever. Tomorrow I put most everything I own in my Civic, and drive out to California, to start a new life. I have lived in the same state (and almost the same city) my entire life. This will be my first move away from family (more than ~30mins driving distance) ever, … Read more
About 10 days ago, I received a Google Plus notification late one night that some random person commented-on and re-shared one of my photos: … and I thought, “Oh how nice, someone outside my group of friends stumbled upon one of my photos? That is kind of cool!” I was excited for all of 2 mins … Read more
Infrared Photos In Lightroom I came across this excellent Gimp infrared tutorial not long ago, and it got me excited to try some infrared photo processing. Being a recent Lightroom addict, I found it annoying that Lightroom does not support color channel mixing, and having to constantly export-edit-import slowed my workflow. In doing a bit of research … Read more
Nothing important here, just a few highlights reflecting back on 2012… January – Started my first 365 photo project February – My photo on display in a random art show on campus March – Went to SXSW in Austin TX April – Upgraded to a Nikon D7000 | created PyrDetail May – Finished MSCS degree from GaTech | Spoke at GTC 2012 … Read more
Well, the time has now come… my first 365 photo project is now complete! While it started as a way for me to practice taking better pictures, it soon turned into simply a photo journal, documenting each day. I have since grown to love always thinking about how to capture/represent each day as a picture (hard … Read more
A Christmas present to myself this year: rebuild my desktop into a Hackintosh… Ever since I gave into Lightroom and started using my macbook for photo editing, I had been missing my desktop’s larger monitor and faster processor. Since I can’t run Lightroom on Linux, and since I can’t stand booting into Windows, the only … Read more
Audio Frequency Spectrum Analyzer & Spectrogram As a followup to a previous post on Music Visualization with Processing (and a good excuse to play with my Arduino), I decided to convert my Processing music visualizer into hardware. The project is not finished yet, but I wanted to post a quick update and how-to on making what … Read more
I got the privilege of developing some of the Super Computing 2012 (SC12) booth demos for AccelerEyes, to showcase ArrayFire. Above is an ArrayFire demo running at SC12 on an nVidia GPU. This demo (source code HERE) uses OpenCV to capture webcam video and processes the stream in several different ways, in real-time. From top-left to bottom-right: Sobel filter, ArrayFire logo, Motion (frame differencing), Source image, Histogram … Read more