Impressive Machine Blog

Check out my new blog at Impressive Machine.

Toccata and Fugue on Disk Drives

New art related web site

I created my new art web site.

Chaos oscillator

I was getting fed up with the interface on wordpress so I downloaded the free blog writer from Windows Live.

I have been experimenting with the Chua circuit for generating chaos. Here’s my video of the circuit working with a light sensor:

Chua chaos circuit

Augmented Reality Treasure Hunt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCp88wHvs4

This is my demo for our augmented reality engine. This is actually a year old now – the engine is improving all the time.

Swell idea

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/this-renewable-energy-source-is-swell

This article describes a very nice way of generating electricity from ocean movements by using long range swells and converting the rise and fall into wind energy for a turbine which does not need to be submerged. I like it!

More augmented reality writeups

I read often about augmented reality applications being developed. Some are available on the iPhone. It fires me up because I am working in this area, but I am focusing on actual computer vision for augmented reality. Most of the apps I have seen are only using GPS plus the compass to layer up some graphics on the camera view. What is needed is a lock with the real time image and that is the technology I have developed. Here is another article about AR on phones.