Archive for August, 2008

Mozilla Labs - Ubiquity Firefox plug-in

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Ubiquity is a plug-in that enables you to seamlessly integrate common web services into your daily communication over the Web. It’s still in early stages, but looks pretty impressive. Visualize Apple’s Dashboard for web and this is pretty much it.

The BPA

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Guaranteed to bring out a smile on your face.

The Brighton Port Authority

Project page updates

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I’ve put up the first batch of project on the projects page. I’ll do some sorts of categories when the list becomes too big. More to follow soon.

TinEye - the REAL image search

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

TinEye is a new web service for finding images, and what makes it different from Google Image Search is that it doesn’t look at the tags and keywords next to it: you must upload an image in order to find something similar.

There’s a video explaining it on the front page, but here’s how it works: it creates a “fingerprint” of your image based on the pixel structure. Then it compares it to the “fingerprint” database it already collected. This type of search allows for pattern recognition and incomplete matching, which in turn allows it to return even altered images as results. I don’t know does the algorithm works and probably will never too - just like Google - it’s a trade secret. But from the test results, this really works. And will probably continue to work even better as the “fingerprint” database grows and the algorithm gets refined.

A structure by Brandon Morse

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Brandon Morse’s dynamics through procedural animation.

Essentially, it’s the stripped down two building structure with increased elasticity that are connected at the top creating sort of a tug-of-war. I really like the clean look.