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eReader Salvage

Roommate gave me his old Pandigital eReader, which he never cared for, which gave me the perfect opportunity to take it apart and harvest its innards (and also have a cocktail!). A WiFi radio, two cute little speakers, a rechargeable battery, the LCD, and the digitizer — There’s good stuff in there. Once I figure [...]

Nerding

So I hit a wall on my Image Analysis project, trying to get this damnable histogram specification section to work. Got it working in pure AS3, but it’s too slow to deploy and I can’t get it to work in Pixel Bender. It needs to sample the color value of a pixel in the source [...]

2.1.1 Histogram Expansion

Background: I’m working my way through the book Practical Algorithms Image Analysis, and documenting my progress here. I remain WELL AWARE that I’m reinventing the wheel, and that nearly all of this is, you know, already built into Flash, but it’ll be a learnful experience. Building on my Histogram viewer, the next task is to [...]

Practical Algorithms for Image Analysis – Post #1

I picked up this book, randomly, and I’m enjoying working my way through it. It starts off with the fundamentals, things like scaling and rotating images, but then quickly moves on to more complex stuff. I thought it might be a fun challenge to work through the book in Flash and Actionscript, not by just [...]

fastICA in AS3

I’m not going to spend a lot of time explaining what fastICA is, or what Independent Component Analysis is in general, but if you need it in Actionscript and you’ve been looking for it, here it is.  I only vaguely understand how it works (for now!), but math is math and code is code, and [...]

Cross-Country Snowball Fight!

Spring is fast approaching here in NYC, and snow showers are (hopefully) behind us. The LABS group, though, is saddened by this, because it means our interactive 2010 Holiday installation is officially out of season.

First test print with the MakerBot

Since I know I won’t be with the agency much longer, I thought it would be a great parting gift to assemble the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic the team had ordered, and along the way pick up tips and experience for when I buy my own for home. Some people get really cranky when they see me [...]

Foursquare is basically just for marketers.

On any given day in NYC, something like half of all trending locations are going to be some sort of player in the marketing or media fields. I’m reminded that New York really only has five industries: Publishing, Advertising, Fashion, Finance, and TV. Guess which of those industries has a lot of free time on [...]

I Can Read Your Pulse by Webcam

This movie requires Flash Player 9 swfobject.embedSWF(“http://digitologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/PulseFlexTest.swf”, “swff6f11″, “610″, “342″, “9.0.0″, “”, {}, {wmode: “window”, menu: “false”, quality: “high”, bgcolor: “#FFFFFF”}, {}); The above is the latest version of a labor of love I’ve been working on, based on research coming out of the MIT Media Lab. Turns out the veeeery minute changes in color [...]