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Pixar Retirement Keyboard
An example of the clash between Caps Lock and 40+ years of emacs motor control.
When I 'retired' from Pixar in 1992 to go back to grad school, my friends got me a (digital) gold watch. Neftali "El Magnifico" Alvarez made this custom keyboard and had everyone he could find sign it. The layout is a little odd. Hard to type some words, others, pret
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The Veiled Virgin illustrates visual segmentation of shape by cause
The geometry of the physical object does not represent the visual experience.
Three-dimensional (3D) shape perception is one of the most important functions of vision. It is crucial for many tasks, from object recognition to tool use, and yet how th
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Oh the things you’ll find…
I'm cleaning up a bunch of archived files.
While I was in grad school, after Pixar, I did a little bit of consulting to make ends meet. One of the more fun things that I did was write a bunch of audio software for a David Bowie interactive CD. (aka CDi)
I got to hang out with Brian Eno, visited him on Guy Fawkes Night
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Stolen Valor
I owe Bausch & Lomb an explanation.
In high school, I convinced my Chemistry teacher that my time for that class was better spent at the local community college (Go Flood Wall Tech ... Steamers?) learning Calculus, since we didn't offer it at Portsmouth High and I was first in my family to head off to the hallowed halls of Ohio State to learn Architecture.
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Pixar Retirement Keyboard
An example of the clash between Caps Lock and 40+ years of emacs motor control.
When I 'retired' from Pixar in 1992 to go back to grad school, my friends got me a (digital) gold watch. Neftali "El Magnifico" Alvarez made this custom keyboard and had eve…
A first look at the ChumpCam
Some photos of the Pi Based, Arducam driven camera system.
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Stolen Valor
I owe Bausch & Lomb an explanation.
In high school, I convinced my Chemistry teacher that my time for that class was better spent at the local community college (Go Flood Wall Tech ... Steamers?) learning Calculus, since we di…
The Veiled Virgin illustrates visual segmentation of shape by cause
The geometry of the physical object does not represent the visual experience.
Three-dimensional (3D) shape perception is one of the most important functions of vision. It …
Perceptual plausibility of exaggerated realistic motion
Squashing and stretching our way across the uncanny valley.
Abstract
The informal heuristic practices of the fine arts have much to offer to our understanding of the appearance of phe…
Turdpaint
In my computer graphics youth, everyone wrote two programs - a 2D paint program and a 3D renderer.
Such was the curriculum of the time. Ed Tripp taught CIS 781-2-3, a three quarter sequence that took you from the Bresenham line a…
Papa’s Draft Card
Found my Grandfather's draft card in a bunch of my Dad's stuff.
About a year before my Grandfather passed away, I visited him and he pulled his draft card out of his wallet. He handed it to me and said "I keep trying to g…
Oh the things you’ll find…
I'm cleaning up a bunch of archived files.
While I was in grad school, after Pixar, I did a little bit of consulting to make ends meet. One of the more fun things that I did was write a bunch of audio software fo…
MacRenderMan
Some historical floppy disk fun from old Pixar days.
When Pixar decided to sell RenderMan to the public we had to come up with a good name (It was REYES, Renders Everything You've Ever Saw / Seen). You could already buy a vers…
Chernobyl Personal Geiger Counter
Issued to residents of Chernobyl and surrounding areas after the [Chernobyl Disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster).
Last I played with it, it still worked. It takes some pretty weird b…
On Talks and Slides
Some history of style.
Once upon a time, Ed Tufte called me a "sanctimonious assohole". I suggested that he up the dosage of his medications and stopped recommending his books to my students and colleagues1. But — The C…
The PICS 2000
A medical imaging workstation - the beginning of volume imaging
When I got my interview at Pixar, I was at Ohio State working on volumetric rendering of CT and MR images. There are a few callbacks to that on here, OSU MRI Fla…
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