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NY Art Beat needs your help!

NY Art Beat, a child of wildly-successful Tokyo Art Beat website, needs volunteers in order to get off the ground.

If you’re interested in art, can find your way around HTML, and want to plug in to a great network of artsy people, check out what they’re looking for.

February 29th, 2008 | Category: Art, New York | Comments are closed

OLPC runs Processing and Arduino

At NYU’s ITP program, the Processing and Arduino programming environments are widely used. Since my main interest in the OLPC is to use it as a controller for projects, and since most of my projects are built using those two tools, I was very interested in getting them running on the OLPC.

In addition, both […]

February 24th, 2008 | Category: How-To, OLPC | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

More HDR tests

I’ve continued to explore HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging, trying out different tone mapping algorithms. The following image was processed with the Mantiuk algorithm, and gives a nice, illustrated look:

Compare it to the original image:

February 14th, 2008 | Category: How-To, Photos | Comments are closed

HDR photography and the "painter's eye"

In imaging, dynamic range refers to the difference between the brightest and darkest values in a scene. Cameras are not able to capture as much dynamic range as our eyes, and most display technologies are not capable of representing them.

I’ve been doing some experiments with HDR imaging and processing, because I think the process […]

February 1st, 2008 | Category: How-To, Photos | Comments are closed

Making the OLPC XO useful

I’ve moved the information in this post to a dedicated page here.

February 1st, 2008 | Category: How-To, OLPC | One comment - (Comments are closed)