February 29, 2004
midterm (part zillion)
kurts post, which covers a lot of ground. our daily whiteboard pictures, our integrated patch with wills additions, my work. perry's patch remains on our to-do list (gl slidebars). but then, we need to know if we can integrate the gl windows with normal windows. (the first whiteboard picture explains a little of the interface as we now imagine it - stupid max, making us compromise.)
there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
February 28, 2004
new max patch, tripp's version
this patch contains a subpatch called mouseloc that reads a mouseclick and pulls up the movie in a seperate window showing the same frame as the screen that was clicked (in the main window).
it does not reflect any of the help/edits/changes/suggestions made by kurt, perry or will over the past week. kurt has been working in the main patch and so ive tried to stay out of it by working in subpatches.
heres a link to our whiteboard session, expertly photographed by kurt.
things left to fix:
add controls for the main window.
orient the frame count text in main window.
set default framestate for gl video planes.
get better control over the popup. (prob best done by using a pwindow and adding controls in that window, all as part of the patch. ill prob tackle this next.)
try to come up with a name for the freaking thing. (and then fight with kurt over the name.)
film content.
for the microsoft research:
(build website.
film demo video.
plan for and show how multiple streams and flagged data can be represented.)
February 23, 2004
more search madness
i posted this a few weeks ago on wwmx and searches. then kurt posted his comments after curtis and stephen spoke.
now i found this article about google.
its interesting to note:
the system i proposed in my paper is built on the idea of sorting based on a subjective, opinion-based collection of textual data.
(what follows is complete conjecture on my part)
but the vast majority of searches are for factual data. we use the web, when searching as an encyclopedia. (there are exceptions, of course.) do we need another way to markup/recognize fact from opinion? we can all agree that led zeppelin's third studio album was 'III'. but we can't agree on what their best album was. ('houses of the holy' or 'II')
can my system be applied to factual data as well? what would happen?
and where is the almanac for the web?
more midterm madness
will aided yesterday and gave me some good ideas on stuff. nonetheless, max is going to be the death of me. there seems to be no good way to get the current frame of a movie - regardless of whether the movie is playing or not. wills method uses a framedump to get the current frame. but this requires a bang, which then forces a playback of the movie.
what i want is a static number, so when/whatever you are looking at, the frame number is reported. allowing a report on pause and during scrubbing.
there has to be a way to do this, but im going crazy trying to figure it out.
i though that sending the framedump out of the qt.movie, then back into a pack of framedump back into qtmovie would create a nice feedback loop that would report only on the current frame. but it seems that to send the framedump message to the qt.movie, you need a bang. so im right back where i started. arg.
why cant this program be more oo and open?
February 21, 2004
midterm max patch v1
my drafts of the max patches....biggest issue is getting the current frame of a movie spitting out. ideas?
see also kurts posts with his patch and pics. (though theres nothing else there....)
February 12, 2004
another trust thought
how long before someone builds the friendster version of napster? your friends get access to your files, you build a web of friends outside of that to find new connections and new music.
you trust your friends, friends-of-friends give you new connections for new opportunities. no one gets busted, unless youre dumb enough to approve someone you shouldn't trust.
evil, perhaps. but more unified then everyone running their own ftp servers.
so, who wants to pay me a million dollars for this idea? or at least build it so i can use it.
February 10, 2004
the ike handheld
this device has: pocket pc 2003, gps, compass, inclinometer, laser distance, digital camera and usb/bluetooth.
i cant find a price on it, but we need to own a bunch of these, stat.
February 03, 2004
midterm progress
progress is behind by a week because of kurt's absence. we hadn't really gotten a chance to talk about the project. but we met last night and began sketching out interfaces for a multi-author video blog system.
some of our scramblings on napkins as we went back and forth.
there are several challenges right now to what we have - we need a prototype and we need to finalize the interface. location has still been a sticky point between us, with kurt seeing it as essential and me seeing as less important.
this problem arises because location depends on at least 2 dimensions, which really prevents you from seeing a summation of video over time and location with regards to others. kurt envisions a map, where i think it could be displayed more relatively, if at all.
we do have a solution, but im not convinced it needs to be that complicated.
it just seems to me that time (and the summation of the video) are more important than seeing exactly where you where when it was shot. perhaps itll become important down the road, but i just think kurt has been thinking about maps too much.
i expect that we will have a final mockup in the next few days and can begin building the system and creating a demo of the content.
final
i'm going to realize my homecoming project developed last semester in peggy's class. right now, i have the entire piece planned out, though the script needs one more draft before casting and shooting.
id like to rewrite this upcoming week, cast before spring break and shoot either over break or immediatly upon returning to school. tracking pieces should be installed, leaving me to edit, program the basic stamp and display through max the projections.
a bit of work, but doable.
February 02, 2004
thesis pt1
not terribly exciting yet, but then, there are many holes to be plugged. this hopefully give some aim to some of it.
