Friday, April 25, 2008

HOWTO install and use FFmpeg on Mac OS X Leopard » Hay Kranen

HOWTO install and use FFmpeg on Mac OS X Leopard

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If you have ever delved into the deep caves of video encoding and transcoding you’ve probably come along FFmpeg, the ’swiss army knife’ of video encoding tools. Basically, FFmpeg is a command-line tool that allows you to convert virtually any video and audio format to another format. That’s very handy if you want to convert your DVD’s to XVID, a movie to a format you can play on your iPod or PSP or a Flash movie you can use on your website without needing to buy the whole Flash software package.

Friday, April 11, 2008

nsf.gov - News - Picture This: Explaining Science Through Drawings - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

nsf.gov - News - Picture This: Explaining Science Through Drawings - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Picture This: Explaining Science Through Drawings

Undergrads master scientific concepts by explaining them to high schoolers through drawings

Pencil drawings of science concepts

The act of creating pencil drawings helps students clarify the underlying science.
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Monday, April 07, 2008

YouTube - PointIR - Multitouch in Python (PyCon 2008)

YouTube - PointIR - Multitouch in Python (PyCon 2008)


http://blog.enthought.com/?p=27

At 10:00 the speaker points out that projectors have a 2-3 frame delay which is responsible for the difference between pointer position and cursor location (this is normally masked when the projector is the only thing showing you the cursor solution).

13:40 openCV wasn't fast enough. They developed some handcoded assembler for blob detection.

24:00 the first 80% is pretty easy. The last 20% is really hard.

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1-Interoperable Three-Dimensional GIS

1-Interoperable Three-Dimensional GIS: Urban Modeling with ArcGIS 3D Analyst and SketchUp

This article describes what happened when 13 urban planning and architecture faculty members and students at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), who had no proficiency in CAD or GIS software, came together to create an interactive three-dimensional GIS for a portion of downtown Fort Lauderdale in only 12 days"

SketchUp Community Forums • View topic - Can Objects Have Hyperlinks?

SketchUp Community Forums • View topic - Can Objects Have Hyperlinks?:
"Is there a way to add a hyperlink to an object that launches another ruby plug-in?"