Mike Brinker

Paper Cut murder

Paper version finished! Should be ready to play in class tomorrow...er...today. Here are two more screen shots. Finished the Hotel...waaaaay to much detail, but it looks cool. The others need to go quicker though if this is ever going to get done.

4 CCD RGBE chip by Sony

And I call shenanigans. The new four chip ccd made by sony incorporates a fourth color filter called "emerald" or "light blue" or "cyan". It is supposed to help with color correction and tune the image closer to the human eye. I still call shenanigans. There is no such thing as "Emerald" in the base color spectrum. Guess they have to sell a few more cameras this year...heres the link to the article...via a Sony catalogue. Kurt, your opinion?

New 8 gig DVD's

Yay for me! I waited and of course I have been rewarded by the dissapointment of others. Dual Layer DVD burning is now possible. But will it be good? An entire 8 gig disk in 45 minutes? Will this increase? How compatible will the discs be? Will there be a major format problem again? Are the burned with a blue laser or a red one? Will other discs play well with these drives? So many questions. Here is the CNN article at least. Thoughts anyone?

Roughed 3D

So, after taking a good long look at what I need to do (and its a LOT) I have decided that in order to get the perspective right for the small town that i am going to hand draw, I need to do a ROUGH mockup of it in a 3D program. Hence the start of what will be hand drawn soon, hopefully. If I can't get it hand drawn, then I will probably just use some stills from the 3D rendered outputs from Maya and use those to mess with when I program the game (as that is going to be my biggest hurdle). Here is a screenshot of the theater and crime scene roughed out.

I won't go into more detail anymore on these because I am already behind the 8 ball so to speak. I need to really hammer them out quickly. I plan on taking still renders of the this little 3D town (like Myst) and then hand drawing the details over top after outputing the images to a tangible format, scan them back in, and put them into director for flipping through. Then comes the hard part, the server side programming and game play!

Magic RFID

Hmmm, not much magic as the RFID is still doing the Identification and BT or some other wireless standard is doing the data transfer. Just a unique combination of both. From a ZDNet UK article straight out of CeBit. Leonard, aren't you there right now? Still an interesting concept for all research parties involved.

Slick Vid-blog

From our friends at /. I have been wondering how the video bandwidth demand could be met in the here and now for video bloggers. I think this is a fantastic idea. Oreilly's Simon Carless has an article on how RSS and BitTorrent could be combined to shove enough of that information through the pipeline without killing anyones bandwidth. That's of course, if someone can really create the demand for it and get those seeders to stay up. Something narrative, anyone?

SLIDER!!!

Can you beat this? All 8 levels are pretty tricky.

The Shockwave version. Must have Shockwave player installed to play.

The actual director file that uses RFID. DO NOT USE, FOR INSTRUCTOR REFERENCE. It's zipped because it is "too large" for Moveable Type. Go figure.

The Shockwave version is for one player and uses the A, S, W, D keyset with SPACEBAR as the reset. If you need help, you can toggle the grid with the G key. It is set to disappear later on, but you can turn if on, if you are desperate! All puzzles are solvable because I just did them to make sure.

The original file and game is based on four players using RFID. That has been taken out in the web version. Let me know what you think!

Thesis Description

Ah yes, the one liner thesis description:

"An embedded device that stores pertinent/crucial medical information about said individual that is only accessible to medical personel and yourself."

And for the paragraph:

"An out of sight, out of mind medical technology that can save lives. This device is easily concealed on an individual and carries crucial medical information. In the case of an emergency, a paramedic or doctor would have a handsfree way to access this encrypted data. This protected medical information would then allow doctors and paramedics to quickly and easily diagnose and identify medical emergencys." Both the reader and the device are embedded into clothing and accesories, rendering their presence invisible.

And now for the spreadsheet outlining the Schedule and Budget.

A few sketches:

The ring

The bracelet

Lost my cell phone

Yeah, I lost my cell phone. Then it got stolen. Long story. Just email me for now.

Real or Hoax

An interesting little article sent to me by Mr. Newman. Not the most reputable source on the net, but definitely an interesting little blurb, however real/not real it may be.