For the past two and a half weeks or so I’ve been implementing features into the MR version of Chalktalk / the Multiuser workstation, including movement of objects out of the boards in z, as well as early implementations of Chalktalk modeler mesh support, thanks to the existence of some C# code written by Gabriel
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I’ve spent a bit of time implementing a new feature for the Multiuser Workstation / Chalktalk VR project in which you can opt to follow another user’s movements and watch the world from the alternative perspective the other user offers. Unfortunately, I don’t think that the result works as nicely as I imagined it would.
Most people visit the lab on Fridays, including former students and collaborators. I like how active everything feels on this day, which manages to create an atmosphere of productivity and reconnection. I also enjoy to go around and catch-up on what everyone has been doing as of late, so I end up bouncing between tasks
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Today, I am happy to write that the paper relevant to one of my previous posts has been accepted! Specifically, it has been accepted as a Late Breaking Work to this year’s SIGCHI conference. Zhenyi, Professor Ken Perlin, and I collaborated on this paper. For the project, we implemented multiple ways of configuring content and
Recently I have been working on a C++ 2D renderer that I hope to use for a couple of projects, including the game I have discussed in previous posts. One project is a mini C++ graphics coding playground, inspired in-part by the simplicity of Processing and the instant-feedback of Professor Ken Perlin’s GLSL shader graphics
Earlier this week, Zhenyi and I submitted a paper on the work we’ve been iterating over the past few months. I think we were successful in writing something significantly more polished than our first iteration of the paper, which, I believe, needed more time to be developed into something more focused and concise. Based on
Going back to the C++ game project I described a few times in earlier posts, I wanted to add support for dynamic background music, where I could turn on or off instruments according to events that take place in the world. Plenty of media use dynamic soundtracks to create atmosphere. For example, one might want
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I have recently finished a collaborative project with the Guggenheim Time-based Media Lab and NYU CS as the lead programmer for the restoration of a software-based web artwork. Called Unfolding Object (by the artist John F. Simon Jr.), the piece was a Java Applet. Java Applets have been deprecated for some time, so almost no
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Chalktalk-wise: There is one “blackboard” in the desktop version of Chalktalk, but in Chalktalk VR there is the potential to have multiple boards visible simultaneously. To achieve this, I plan to reuse a feature that had a greater role in one of the earlier versions of Chalktalk–sketch pages. These allowed you to have multiple instances
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I’m in the process of optimizing some old prototype line rendering code. This code isn’t broken, but on every frame, it creates many line geometry objects, renders them once, and throws them away, never to be used again. Then it creates more line objects on the next time–repeat. Allocating memory all of the time like
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