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3D-Ness

XiYu — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:18:23 +0000

Over the past couple of days or so, I’ve been fiddling around with some 3D drawings and came across 123D Catch. It’s available as an iPhone or iPad app from the US iTunes store or you could download the PC version from their site and use pics from your camera. In a nutshell, it takes your series of photos and generates a 3D model out of it. A bit like Photosynth but in 3D. The nitty gritty processing happens in the cloud which is pretty neat, but it does take a while.

My first test was of a dental floss container using my iPad and the results looked like an amorphous blob. I gave it another whirl using my G11 and the PC app with my mouse as the test subject. It’s still not brilliant and shows dents that’d rival my car but an improvement over the dental floss one.

Botched attempt

Birds, birds, birds

XiYu — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:25:35 +0000

I was hoping to catch one of Cici’s friends with a bowl of dry cat food I left out but all I got was either the same greedy magpie pop up time and time again or several different ones. I’m not sure if the wood pidgeon got anything though.

The stones are there to stop the bowl moving about.

Snow Jac II

XiYu — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:22:44 +0000

This is the same video as the last one, except this time I’ve fiddled around with the export settings. It’s smoother, the frames are in the right place and its in glorious HD!

Snow Jac

XiYu — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:58:06 +0000

What jolly good fun in the snow today.

Building a Snow Jac from Xi on Vimeo.

Viva Espana II

XiYu — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:28:05 +0000

Slideshow from my trip to Spain a few months ago.

Viva Espana! from Xi on Vimeo.

Aurora time-lapse

XiYu — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:17:43 +0000

Now why didn’t I think of this while I was up in northern Sweden? I guess its something else to add to my list of things to do.

Aurora Borealis timelapse HD – Tromsø 2010 from Tor Even Mathisen on Vimeo.

Nowhere Near Here

XiYu — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:14:42 +0000

I really like this, it’s different from most of the light painting stop-motion things.

Nowhere Near Here from Pahnl on Vimeo.

Iceland Road Trip Slideshow

XiYu — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:00:32 +0000

The much delayed slideshow from the trip to Iceland. As expected, it’s to Bjork!

Iceland Road Trip 2010 from Xi on Vimeo.

Watson Eating a Sunflower Seed

XiYu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:36:13 +0000

Here, Watson demonstrates how he likes to eat a sunflower seed.

How Watson Eats Sunflower Seeds from Xi on Vimeo.

Eating South Africa

XiYu — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:40:01 +0000

Sophie and I were chatting on MSN as we so often do and the topic came up about photos of us eating. Then it came to me, why not do a video slideshow of eating and food photos?! I could do it to Food Glorious Food from the musical Oliver!

I’m just full of these creative ideas sometimes that it surprises even me!

Eating South Africa from Xi on Vimeo.