The last few weeks I’ve been finishing the facial mocap for all the characters in the Mary and the Monster project. The work within the Faceware software is almost done, I only have 1 scene left for each of the characters. The work in the Faceware system has been slow and tedious. Some of the
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I am sure most of you have seen Ken’s Chalktalk demos. In one of his demos, he uses a green object attached to a pen as the drawing tool. It would be nice to use bare hands as the tool for interaction, so we implemented this simple hand tracking component for Chalktalk. It uses the
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The problem with talking about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet. Sure, you can extrapolate from current trends, make predictions, follow patterns to their logical (or illogical) conclusions. But you don’t actually have that crystal ball, all polished up and ready for the gazing. So you’re sort of winging it. And the people
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This Sunday we will be presenting Chalktalk VR as part of the World Science Festival. See the festival’s site here: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ and our previous publication here: https://mattressiter.com/publication_post/exploring-configuration-of-mixed-reality-spaces-for-communication/The location is Kimmel Center if you’d like to try or take a look. This will be the first time the system as it is now will be run
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From time to time, I meander outside my typical work, and pursue a side project, often dealing with some random use of procedural generation techniques. For this one, over the past winter break, I relaxed by seeing if I could generate mushrooms with a few functions, and arrange them in interesting “pseudo” natural looking ways,
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After participating 2 rounds of application to the second Annual Innovators in Aging Award, our team (Zhu Wang, Marta Gospodarek and Rufei Sheng, advised by Prof. Ken Perlin and Prof. Anat Lubetzky) finally won the award. The competition, held by NYU Aging Incubator, aims to promote the study of aging and its impacts, and further
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In the course of implementing a new computer graphics algorithm, I recently found myself immersed in the wonderful world of polyhedra. In particular, I got to play with two of my favorite polyhedra — the cube and the rhombic dodecahedron. The first one everybody knows about. The second one is a little more obscure, but
Well everyone, this is going to be my last blog post of the semester, so I’ll try to keep things short. But, need not worry, I’ll be back again in the Fall, ready to write as much as I can (or as much as people will listen)! To be completely frank, these last few weeks
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// Sorry for the late blog. I will share my personal feeling of CHI 2019 in brief here and attach a link to my full notes in the end. This is my second CHI experience. Differently, I have something to present this year although it is just a late-breaking work. Check the official preview video
Pressure sensing technologies have the advantage of obtaining the center of pressure. The center of pressure (COP) is defined by measuring the mean position of pressure distribution on the planar surface of the pressure mat. The COP of both feet are not going to be the same when we stand on the pressure mat and
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