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charged
there was a jubilant feeling in the air as i rode home through the streets of new york. union square was completely choked with revelers, frequently cheering and chanting. spontaneous and sporadic cheers or calls of “obama” pierced the night.
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historic (visualizations)
wow. what a night. exhausted but filled with hope. the visualizations of the results as they filtered in were great, but the new york times seemed best. specifically that you could zoom in and also look at historical results by state or county. great work
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i knew that it’s been watching me.
years ago we used to joke that the small microphone at the top of some apple monitors (beige powerPC era) was a stress sensor and would allow the computer to detect when you were getting frustrated or were under a deadline and would then misbehave to spite you. when the macbooks added the isight camera […]
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catching up to do.
the lead up to midterms at ITP have nearly caused me to shut down a bit…but now that my physical computing project has been presented i can begin to see through to the other side and make preparations for the rest of the semester. it’s going by so quickly… there’s much documentation to catch up […]
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Scatterplot…
Trying to migrate my knowledge of Processing into Java and the Eclipse development environment. This is Ben Fry’s zipcode lookup applet as described in “Visualizing Data”. There are some oddities in my implementation of it, perhaps due to my inexperience with vanilla Java and a shoddy porting of his code. Oh well, I’ll tinker with […]
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Proximity and Attitude!
Adam, Karla and I are working together on our physical computing midterm. We’re looking to generate sound from the wearer’s environment and create some type of “musical” device that they can play. Some of the stimuli that we’ve figured could be measured are proximity of external objects to the wearer, their movement / motion (speed, […]
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Visualizing Smell
The research presented by Leslie Vosshall et al regarding larval olfactory response (ie. smell) provides several challenges in visualizing an invisible sense. There does seem to be evidence that the larvae are drawn to the higher areas of concentration, but how to illustrate that pull? The illustrations in the research’s published work depict greater concentrations […]
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Visualizing: Sense of (small) scale
Making initial experiments with scale. Used the USB microscope to take images at the two magnifications available (20x and 400x). I was really intrigued with the surface of the computer…both because it was readily available and because the metal is actually quite pitted rather than smooth. There is also a lot of “stuff” in and […]
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OS X Leopard’s Alex text-to-speech…breathing?
Maybe this is old news…but it was a surprise to me when I thought I heard the (relatively) new Alex voice inhaling when speaking some text. Try it out yourself, using TextEdit (spelled to aid pronunciation): This is a test. Didd I juhst take a breath? (Yes, I will). I hope so, I really need […]
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Bloob.
I’m a big fan of a portmanteau words… I recently realized that my blog entries are excessively long on the front page. Some clever individual though to implement a break in the articles when on the main page…but I haven’t until lately needed to use something like that. However, I tend to be a bit […]