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Heading to the UK 26 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
I’m sitting at Geneva airport, waiting to board a Swiss flight to the UK. I’ve been hacking away in Python – and now IronPython – for the last few days, which has been very interesting. Here’s a quick...
Reminder about the upcoming Portathon 23 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
A picture is worth a thousand words, so whatever your feelings about infographics this must be worth at least a hundred. ;-) Lots of people are participating in the previously announced Exchange Apps ...
Update on the project to de-skew images inside AutoCAD 21 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
I’ve managed to find the time to make good progress on my linear algebra class, which means I have an update to share on the image deskewing project I mentioned last week. Thanks to all of you who pro...
Updated version of ReCap Photo available for trial 19 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
After taking a look at Project Memento, last week, using it to manipulate a mesh I’d previously created with ReCap Photo, I decided to try out the latest update to the latter of these two tools. The f...
Using Project Memento to manipulate mesh output from ReCap Photo 16 Aug 2013 | 01:28 pm
This morning I went back to look at Project Memento, with a view to using it to trim down a model I captured using ReCap Photo. I started with the model of the Morgan 3 Wheeler shown in this previous....
Applications for linear algebra: straightening out perspective 14 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
Last night I completed a really interesting lab as part of the linear algebra class that I’ve been studying. The purpose of the lab was to build up – and make use of – some Python code to process an.....
Project Memento now available on Autodesk Labs 12 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
Once again I’m a bit late announcing this one: I had friends visiting from the UK, last week, and so took the week off (although I ended finding a fair amount of time to study linear algebra, which wa...
Updated tool to understand transformation matrices in AutoCAD 9 Aug 2013 | 09:48 am
As I started on my linear algebra class, some weeks ago, I decided to dust off the Transformer app I’d written a few years ago and make sure it works in AutoCAD 2014. It actually really helped me in c...
Coursera and the future of education 7 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
It’s my mum that first pointed me at Coursera. Yes, that’s right: my mother. That’s quite an admission for a software professional to make, I’m sure you’ll agree, but then my mother does spend more ti...
More fun with LeapJS and Paper.js 5 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
After my initial fooling around with combining the Leap Motion JavaScript library with Paper.js – and some gentle prompting from Kerry Brown – I started looking at how it might be possible to integrat...
