Listerine Hack
How to drink a few bottles of Listerine, scare your clients, and ultimately see your clients repeat your prank. I told this story to Penn years ago and he decided it was worthy of a place in their… Read More
Highland Aire
I just finished a row. It’s about 99% humidity this morning, which, to credit Chris Wedge, reminds me of having just rowed inside someone’s mouth. Chris and I used to ride our bikes together when we were at… Read More
Cat Came Back Jeans
Sometime in the late 80’s, I was a guest at a Spike n’ Mike animation festival, Santa Cruz I think. A bunch of us from Pixar went down, JL was probably the only ‘true’ special guest, but somehow… Read More
IMSAI 8080
Back and forth in time… The IMSAI 8080 was the first “clone” microcomputer, introduced in 1975 – a lower cost version of the MITS Altair 8800, introduced a year earlier in 1974. I first saw the Altair on… Read More
AR Air Hockey
Freshman Imaging Project ‘sports ball tracking’ project demo for RIT Undergraduate Research presentation. And the poster
Chuck Csuri – 1922-2022
Research is just an excuse to have fun and make some crazy art. — Chuck, early 1980s I showed up in Columbus in 1982, a first-generation college student, intent on getting something out of the opportunity to get… Read More
Folklore
This is what I had on my desk when I arrived at Pixar. A Sun-2 (the CPU cabinet is ‘desk side’) and a Barco monitor. 640 x 480. That optical mouse was great, so much better than the… Read More
In the future, you’ll just download the STL and fix it yourself
Well, not quite. Back when I started doing 3D printing (around 2002 or so, very expensive, very cool) one piece of sales hype was – Soon, when your dishwasher breaks, you’ll just buy the STL for the part… Read More
A Year Ago Today, I Wrote on Nextdoor
I have a condition that prevents me from wearing pants. I also have a note from my doctor. Notarized. I hesitate to describe it, alas, my condition is this — Being a middle aged dad, I have no… Read More
Visual perception of surface properties through direct manipulation
VSS21 – tangible materials. Some work we started at RIT / Gießen right before the universe shut down for a virus break. Snehal was quite the trooper, carrying it on while the rest of us were huddled in… Read More