Whatcha lookin’ at?
Some data from Emerson, Max + My summer work. Heat map, where one person looked while making shape discrimination decisions.
I think I’ll take a vacation now.
Omega-style headphone stand
For my birthday I bought myself a nice set of headphones — Grado PS500. They were sitting on my desk, in a pile of coffee stained Natures and strange SkidShop snack-bags.
So I designed and printed the following, inspired by the so-called “Omega” headphone stands that are out there. Check it out at Thingaverse
Oh and a shout-out to McNeel and Assoc for letting me be part of the Rhino for Macintosh beta-group.
Wolfram Programming Cloud
You can create this:
[WolframCloudAPI id=”a99541cf-90ab-4b52-ab5c-cd6b632f4c7f” rule=”62″ step=”30″]With this:
[wlcode] CloudDeploy[APIFunction[{“rule” -> Restricted[“Number”, {0, 255, 1}] -> 30,
“step” -> Restricted[“Number”, {0, Infinity, 1}] -> 50
},
ArrayPlot[CellularAutomaton[#rule, {{1}, 0}, #step],
Frame -> False] &,
“PNG”
], Permissions -> “Public”] [/wlcode]
Fun! Check out some of the fun stuff here https://www.wolframcloud.com
A day of problem solving pictures.
One of the things I love about using Mathematica is that it helps me better understand the nature of my programming and problem solving.
It’s a great tool to help make sense of problems, see your errors, verify and validate your computations.
Here is a set of 26 images from today’s efforts to solve a particular problem of differential geometry on densely sampled meshes.
More good bad results
Some days, things don’t go well, but you end up with interesting looking things anyway.
Glaven Explorer
Very preliminary, for Eric.
[WolframCDF source=”http://flipphillips.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Glerp.cdf” width=”433″ height=”520″ altimage=”http://flipphillips.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Glerp.png” altimagewidth=”433″ altimageheight=”520″]
When I do the wrong thing…
It eventually looks like this, which is the ‘right thing’
[WolframCDF source=”http://flipphillips.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/notwtf.cdf” width=”320″ height=”415″ altimage=”https://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/flip/?p=433″ altimagewidth=”” altimageheight=””]Pegged. It will come back to you?
Doing a sort of gigantic parallel computation in Mathematica.
A little too gigantic, I’m afraid. Um- can IT deliver my new MacPro sooooon? Pleeeeease?
Abby Normal
I was trying to figure out why there were shading artifacts on a 3D object I created for some vision experiments.
I’ve got a metric-ton of Mathematica I’ve written over the years for doing computational geometry and it stood me in good stead. The blue ‘V’s you see are mismatched surface normals – they should be coincident (e.g. exactly the same) but, as you can see, there is a systematic error. Fixed it.
NewGlaven
Back in 1987 I wrote some code for generating ‘noisy objects’. I cleaned up that code over the years, enhanced some calculations, played with new Mathematica features. Now I’ve got stuff that looks like this.
I’ll put a reference to the paper on these things here soon. Sooooon.