• Bloxing Day

    Updated: 2011-12-26 00:47:54
    My crazy-person project for the month is done. It’s a little program called Mineways, which is a bridge between Minecraft and Shapeways, the 3D printing service. You can grab a chunk of a Minecraft world for rendering or 3D printing. See the Mineways Flickr group for some results.

  • 2011 Color and Imaging Conference Roundup

    Updated: 2011-12-21 17:57:25
    For convenience (using the CIC 2011 tag works but shows posts in reverse order), this post combines all the links to my CIC 2011 posts. Note that video for many of the presentations is available online, and many of the papers are also available on the various author’s home pages. Introduction Courses A Courses B [...]

  • 2011 Color and Imaging Conference, Part IV: Featured Talks

    Updated: 2011-12-20 18:32:25
    CIC typically has several featured talks such as keynotes and an “evening lecture” – these are invited talks about topics of interest to attendees: Keynote: Color Responses of the Human Brain Explored with fMRI The first keynote of the conference was given by Kathy Mullen from McGill Vision Research at the McGill University Department of [...]

  • 2011 Color and Imaging Conference, Part III: Courses B

    Updated: 2011-12-20 17:09:35
    This post covers the rest of the CIC 2011 courses that I attended; it will be followed by posts describing the other types of CIC content (keynotes, papers, etc.). Lighting: Characterization & Visual Quality This course was given by Prof. Françoise Viénot, Research Center of Collection Conservation, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. During [...]

  • 2011 Color and Imaging Conference, Part II: Courses A

    Updated: 2011-12-20 07:02:07
    CIC traditionally includes a strong course program, with a two-day course on fundamentals (a DVD of this course presented by Dr. Hunt can be purchased online) and a series of short courses on more specialized topics. Since I attended the fundamentals course last year, this year I only went to short courses. This blog post [...]

  • 2011 Color and Imaging Conference, Part I: Introduction

    Updated: 2011-12-20 03:36:21
    A few weeks ago, I attended the 2011 Color and Imaging Conference (CIC). CIC is a small conference (a little under 200 attendees) that nevertheless commands an important role in the fields of color science and digital imaging, similar to SIGGRAPH’s importance to computer graphics. CIC is co-sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and [...]

  • Do you spell these two words correctly?

    Updated: 2011-12-06 00:13:43
    We all have dumb little blind spots. As a kid, I thought “Achilles” was pronounced “a-chi-elz” and, heaven knows how, “etiquette” was somehow “eh-teak”. When you say goofy things to other people, someone eventually corrects you. However, if most of the people around you are making the same mistake (I’m sorry, “nuclear” is not pronounced [...]

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