Some videos you find on Youtube fill you with questions. Questions like ‘why did I just spend 2 minutes of my life watching that?’ or ‘what is this?’ Sometimes though, you find videos that fill you with the right kind of questions. Questions that lead you through lots of different ideas and possibilities and inspire […]
May 13, 2012
I hope many of you have seen the excellent and fun WebGL GLSL sandbox at http://glsl.heroku.com/. This live editing of shaders is an excellent learning tool, as it allows you to watch the consequences of any changes you make. I am constructing some simple OpenGL ES scripts as a learning resource for anyone new to it, […]
January 4, 2011
The fix can be easily made if you build from source (building for debian). The key line that needs to be altered is at line 1131 of trunk/opencv/modules/python/api [svn browse ink]: ... QueryHistValue_3D double CvHistogram hist int idx0 int idx1 int idx2 QueryHistValue_nD double CvHistogram hist ints idx # Matching MatchTemplate CvArr image CvArr templ […]
February 11, 2010
My first confession – I avoid ‘threading’ and shared memory. Avoid it like the plague, not because I cannot do it but because it can be a complete pain to build and maintain relative to the alternatives. I am very much pro multiprocessing versus multithreading – obviously, there are times when threading is by far […]
February 24, 2008
(Part 1 will detail the installation and setup of the basic system, services and libraries needed for a Fedora-Commons/Apache Solr backed web ‘service’. Subsequent parts will deal with configuring and feeding the search engine, and constructing a web interface to handle article/blog/comment posting and using OpenID for authentication.) Step 1 – Get a nice clean […]
December 14, 2007
Firstly, you’ll need some extra libraries: (If you are using Windows, I’m afraid you are on your own with problems. I can’t help you, it’s not a system I use.) Get easy install from here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall(If that site is slowed to a trickle, just install ez_install.py from somewhere else that is trustworthy) Then, as root: […]
December 12, 2007
A few things of note: I sm the proud new owner of an Asus Eee PC It comes with linux (Xandros) installed by default! It has all the usual bells and whistles – firefox -> youtube and internet radio works out of the box, openoffice, pidgen (instant messanger that handles just about every protocol, msn, […]
December 11, 2007
(Disclaimer: This is going to rapidly skip over functionality that is present in Fedora, and can be duplicated for other object stores given effort. The key pieces of functionality are that each item has a set of RDF triples that describe how it relates to other items, and that each item can be referenced by […]
February 6, 2013
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