The projects I have worked on
While at the Imagine Cup 2011 finals in New York, I was given a Kinect to play with. After playing around, I started thinking Look at the following 2 Kinect Tech Demos …now wouldn’t it be incredible if someone combined the two. 3D Facial Capture using a Kinect Perspective Rendering based on Facial Tracking.
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One thing that has always fascinated me is how search engines work; more so how they collect information about all the webpages they search through. To that end I created my own search engine Web Bot that you can use and modify. To try it out download the code from: http://MrPfister.com/src/WebCrawler.zip Highlights: Parses Robots.txt...
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The Bank holiday is a lovely time to get things done, and currently I have been working on my entry to the 10k Javascript Challenge. I started writing about my idea and entry in my previous blog post. To put simply my entry is a landscape ray tracing example which is done in near...
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There have always been a quest to shrink webpages and Javascript to their absolute minimum. But what can you achieve with just 10k? In association with MIX there is a web development contest which aims to get developers to write interesting websites and tech demos using just 10k of Javascript, Images and everything else....
Read more →Now first of all the Riots that have been happening across the UK have been awful, destorying communities and peoples lives, however as a community there are ways we can help. The police have begun releasing pictures of the muggers however they are usually low quality CCTV captures. In the day and age of...
Read more →I have spent some time recently working on iOS projects, mainly revolving around displaying web content and doing some fancy stuff with HTML5 such as drawing and annotating on a video. I faced several problems, partly from trying to develop an app using HTML & Javascript and also from the limitations of iOS. HTML5...
Read more →One of the things I’ve made is a procedurally generated planet based on an geodesic sphere in OpenGL, below I will try and explain how it was made. In order to create a planet, a sphere composed of multiple triangles must first be formed. To create a uniform distribution and surface area of each...
Read more →Well I guess a few of you noticed that I haven’t updated my blog recently, this was mainly due to me finishing my Final Year Project at Uni. So I thought I would explain what it was about. Our department created through several student projects a digital circuit simulator in Java. It allows users...
Read more →Now everyone enjoys looking at pictures and reminiscing over good times; myself included however when browsing through My Pictures I thought there has to be a better and more interactive way to do this. This occurred quite luckily around the same time I’ve been working on a project using the 3D abilities of WPF,...
Read more →When I first started programming my OPO runtime I was doing it as a proof of concept, except with some of the cool support and interest from people I have finally decided to rewrite it properly. Also after being given some technical documentation about how OPO was structured and its internals helped! So its...
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