Time vs Focus
Thought for the new year:
Stop managing your time. Manage your focus.
CMake with compilers that need custom parameters
When using CMake on non-GCC/non-Microsoft compilers – you often run into interesting problems. Especially true for embedded devices/cross-compilers.
One thing that can bite you is the fact that CMake requires the compiler to pass a ‘smoke’ test. Unfortunately, if there are required parameters for your compiler, the smoke test part will fail.
There are a few ways to solve this, the ‘recommended’ way seems to be via the CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER/CMAKE_FORCE_CXX_COMPILER flags. This allows you to tell CMake what the compiler is and pass the smoke test.
CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER(/usr/mycc/cxint86 GNU)
CMAKE_FORCE_CXX_COMPILER(/usr/mycc/cxxint86 GNU)
Here are the docs for more information
https://cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling#The_toolchain_file
Siggraph 2015 paper – Dynamic Skin Microgeometry
Generating photo-realistic faces has long been a holy grail for rendering. It’s the combination of a number of difficult problems – eyes, skin, hair, etc. These guys demonstrate a simple, innovative new technique for mimicking the complex skin structures that occur when a character makes different faces. They simulate these ‘micro-structures’ by using anisotrophic bluring/sharpening of facial textures. Good for both realtime and off-line techniques.
Museum tells you to drop the cel phone and draw
It’s been shown in several studies that constantly taking photos of events dramatically reduces your ability to actually remember them (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Want-remember-event-DONT-photo…)
So Rijksmuseum tells you to put down the cel phone. They give you a pad of paper and pencil when you enter the museum and encourage you to draw what you see – to help you experience the awe and wonder of art. They even blog/post people’s drawings.
I, for one, approve.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/startdrawing/draft%20book
A hacker is you!
Want to look like a cool hacker like they have on TV or movies? Just go to this address and start typing!
The Magic Keyboard
I love projection mapping projects. It’s augmented reality without the goggles. 🙂
≡ MAGIC KEYBOARD #1 ≡ from Philippe Dubost on Vimeo.
Barrel organ Michael Jackson
Barrel organs aren’t exactly modern instruments, but that doesn’t mean they can’t rock modern tunes!
Akıllı Bilardo Smart Pool table
Augmented reality comes to your pool game!
Pillow Castle’s First Person Puzzler Tech demo
A fascinating new style of gameplay/puzzle solving. Some have referred to it as ‘forced perspective’.
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail lost animations
Did you know that Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail had some ‘lost’ animations? These animations were found on bits of negative that had been left on the cutting room floor. Listen as Terry Gilliam gives a great grumpy old man narrative to the his ‘lost’ work that was cut by ‘envious members of the group trying to restrain a young, talented animator”. Great stuff.