Arduino Spectrophotometry
Well, OK, just measuring ambient light for now… but we’ll get there in class soon. Students in my Computational Methods class are using an Arduino to do some simple sensor measurement stuff. I found a bunch of old… Read More
TAPASI – Monkeys and Microstimulation
Some monkeys and some microstimulation. Courtesy of Gabe Diaz, a little scene from Graziano, Taylor and Moore, 2002. Dots indicate trajectory of the left arm after microstimulation of the right hemisphere PFC. Remember kids – PFC does everything!… Read More
Wasting Time – TheraPutty
Yes, so many other things I could be doing, but this is more important – using a webcam, some Mathematica, and therapy putty. Somehow, as I age, I keep accidentally hurting myself. I know, weird right? So, while… Read More
The Archives of Potentially Amusing Scientific Images (TAPASI)
Wherein serious but silly scientific images are archived. A few months ago, I was having lunch with Sarah Creem-Reger at a conference at UofR. Somehow, the conversation got around to publishing and I relayed a story told to me… Read More
Publish Magazine — August 1989
A short piece about our wedding announcements, printed on a 100-year-old Heidelberg press via computer graphics. I posted an interview from fps Magazine a while back, and one of my old Wolfram Era Pals, Paul Abbott, asked about the wedding… Read More
Animation Magazine — 1989
Unbeknownst to me until several year later, my dad kept a copy of this in his car to show anyone he ever ran into. Right after we completed knickknack, Animation Magazine did a story on the animation group at… Read More
Computer Pictures Magazine – Jan 1987
In 1984, I started working at the Ohio State Computer Graphics Research Group on a medical imaging project. In the same basement box with interview from fps magazine that I posted a bit ago, I found a few other… Read More
fps interview – 1995
Published from 1991-2010, fps was an excellent animation magazine with an impressive cast of regular contributors. Shortly after I left Pixar in 1992, the publisher Emru Townsend got in touch with Tony Apodaca and me for a long-running email… Read More
Why Does the Cortex Reorganize After Sensory Loss?
Investigating the Teleology of Cortical Reorganization A growing body of evidence demonstrates that the brain can reorganize dramatically following sensory loss. Although the existence of such neuroplastic crossmodal changes is not in doubt, the functional significance of these… Read More
Retina and LGN
A demonstration written in Mathematica to show the interaction of the retina and LGN on the sampling of image information from the eyes. You can play with the receptive field size to see how the whole “Hybrid Images”… Read More