world's biggest 3D display

world's biggest 3D display

Cellular Automata

A game of life applet on the web is related to cellular automata. This should be looked into later.

Joel article about Hungarian notation

The Joel on software blog had an article on Hungarian notation. I don't use it, but he has some ideas that might help make use of it in a sensible way in the future. It helped me with an assembly language project at school when I had handles and pointers to deal with, but I'm looking into learning higher level languages now. He describes a rebellion against it starting around the initial .Net release time. He also mentions something written by Raymond Chen about exceptions hindering the safety of code. I've read people use exceptions differently in Python versus C#, but I need to actually find some code to see the difference. I'll need to look into this further later.

LiMo & android

Some other platforms planned for programming mobile phones are LiMo and Android. An article about them is at arstechnica. Android will be used by an organization called the Open Handset Alliance (OHA).

Chandler 1.0 released

An article noting the release of Chandler 1.0 and describing some of its history is here.

Python development for Nokia S60

Nokia has a web site for development for the Nokia S60 here. It sounds interesting, but I don't know much about it yet. I've seen stuff mentioned about iphone development as well. I'm leaning toward the Nokia platform currently since it sounds cheaper and this would be done as a hobby project.

Moe the hedgehog

I'm helping develop a site for Moe the hedgehog.

picture of 27 hd monitor computer setup

A picture of a 27 hd monitor computer setup is on the web. The comments note that apparently the picture shown on the monitors is a desktop image with a menu option altered to "you wish".

invisible sphere

A invisible sphere monitoring device is mentioned at this site. It is kind of funny to see it labeled as invisible after seeing it.

HyperTransport

An article at Wikipedia describes HyperTransport as a possible replacement for the front side bus.

Making of Spiderwick Chronicles

Gnomon School of Visual Effects has a video about how some of the special effects were done in the movie Spiderwick Chronicles.

wii nunchuk hacked for 3D animation

Gizmodo.com has an article about the wii nunchuk being hacked for 3-D animation.

file corruption bug with 64 bit ubuntu

suspend ruins hardy file system:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/203537/

3-d demo using Processing language

http://www.vimeo.com/615344

A video of digital ink.

bmw concept car covered by cloth with Chris Bangle commentary

threading & gpgpu

This article describes threading and using a gpgpu for parallelizing work.

From the article, he compares the slowdown when threads need to share a resource to something like two people having to share a piece of paper. Also, stuff like the overhead for creating a process and communication of a gpgpu back to the main cpu will also cause a slowdown. In addition, the work needs to be suitable to separation into pieces that may be worked on independently. He also mentions the driver and disk i/o may also be bottlenecks.

freeduino

A modified Arduino kit is available here.

Texas Instruments & DSP chips

Yahoo has an article about finding uses for more advanced multicore DSP chips. It states:
"While the new multicore chips from Intel and AMD always get a lot of press, TI has quietly shipped more than 1 billion multicore chips since 1996."

amilo graphicbooster

This page describes an external graphics card booster.

scribus

The scribus (open source desktop publishing program) wiki has a page on scaling an image to fill a frame proportionally with a python script. Also on the wiki it is suggested on the DTP vs. word processing page that database driven publishing can be a challenge but they attempt to allow that through the script interface. InDesign may allow javascript to do this kind of scripting, but I haven't tried either program out yet to see how this would actually work. I plan on looking at scribus and alternatives as a means of learning how to generate pdf's with python.