Monthly Archives: October 2007

reunions

19 Oct 2007 – 10:47

Leif and I spent these past two weekends reunioning. Reunions are a strange sort of phenomenon. Outwardly, they are meant to bring together old friends; but, not so secretly, they are also designed to elicit contributions from alums. The folks who show up are almost always a subset of the full (original) class: alum who [...]

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finding biological motion in random stimuli

18 Oct 2007 – 9:59

The BioMotion Lab aims to explore aspects of visual perception and cognition. The demos provide evidence for our ability to recognize biological motion within non-biological stimuli. In particular, from this link: it is striking how realistic, and human-like, these random moving dots appear. It’s especially interesting to tweak the parameters (gender, weight, emotion) and see [...]

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bird dance

15 Oct 2007 – 20:57

As I have become enamored of birds lately, it is probably not a surprise that *I love this video* ! Maybe someday I’ll have my own dancing bird http://birdloversonly.blogspot. com/2007/ 09/may-i- have-this- dance.html

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daily links 10/05/2007

4 Oct 2007 – 20:30

Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2007 There are some really interesting visualizations in this set, especially the videos. - post by bmevans

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vacation, finally !

4 Oct 2007 – 0:43

I am so exhausted…This summer (working at PARC) was absolutely great, but I feel so worn down now that I am anything but prepared to start a new school year (especially with a heavy class workload). Already this week (week 1, no less), I’ve been working at school beyond 11pm more than once! It’s only [...]

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