Just back home and in mobile reception – at the risk of being a bit of a one-trick pony I’m putting this up. Not pictured – me shouting abuse at bush flies and mozzies attempting to fly down my earhole.
Category: Timelapse
And two-headed-pig-armadillo-things shall fly!
Breaking radio silence. Yes I’m fiddling around with Google Deep Dream (https://github.com/google/deepdream). It was irresistible. First attempt :
Looking for more interesting things to fiddle with now, as that’s lacking a bit of “pazam”.
Managed to get flu and then crush the nerves in my ankle, so things have slowed down a bit but back up to speed soon.
EDIT : Full-size video here
The crow and the skyscraper
Speaking of said bizarre Dadaist incident (I was almost tempted to try and put an insurance claim in just for a laugh) – the shifty little bugger tried to knock my Pi camera 10 storeys off the side of the hotel too. Luckily the base is weighted down with foreign coins so he flapped off. Presumably muttering muffled curses under his beak.
The Blue Mountains
A quickie bit of video from my last trip to Katoomba a couple of months ago. This was filmed on my phone rather than on the Pi, so the quality may be a bit lower. I’m quite surprised I could still get it off the phone actually, after the recent bizarre crow/skyscraper incident.
Lapsapaloosa
Git Central
Due to the unexpected shutdown of Google Code, the tools23d repository is now on Github (http://github.com/davegorst/tools23d.git) – THE place for gits of all kinds. Make new friends! Meet other gits. You can do it all at https://github.com/davegorst/tools23d. Call now! Call charges apply.
UPDATE : Anaglyph rendering now works (in addition to shutter glasses), so it’s now possible to create pics/videos that work with the coloured specs you used to get at the cinema.
Release early/release often/release terrible
The code for stitching together 3D images from left/right pairs is up on Google Code (https://code.google.com/p/tools23d/). Looking through it I can see about 80 things that are a mite shonky (not least that the wraparound code isn’t done yet), but it’s sort of my mid-year resolution to actually release stuff rather than tinker for a decade and a day. It’s standard ANSI C/C89 if you fancy compiling it up.
Yes – it would have been here a sight quicker using yer standard C++/Boost type malarkey, but I did it in bog-standard C basically because a) I wanted to check I could still write non-objecty code and hadn’t permanently sprained my brain, and b) when I started writing it when I only had a Raspberry Pi as a development machine and the compile times were eating away at my sanity.
Currently still faffing with the Pi/Arduino side, -will bung that up too soon-ish once I’m sure I’ve got both camera’s synced properly …
Migraine simulator
I’ve just returned from attempting to do some more Raspberry Pi timelapse filming with 2 camera’s on the way home from work – I think a drop of rain scored a direct hit on the left camera because it’s all gone a mite Forbidden Planet :
I’ll put up some videos in half SBS 3D suitable for a 3d TV when I’ve got some more material and finished the relevant code.
Things going on behind my back
This is the view from my window at work. I actually have a working PC now, hence I could edit this in Openshot, rather than rely on ffmpeg from the commandline.
EDIT : Here’s the original definition version (minus a bit of footage), if anyone is interested :
https://davegorst.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cranes.zip
You’ll need to unzip, as WordPress doesn’t allow me to upload Matroska or .m4v without conversion.
Before sunrise Elizabeth Bay
Another test – this time with my new mobile battery. I’m also employing some much higher-tech camera mounts. Yes, that’s right – I used duct tape and a ladder.
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