Author Archives: Oliver Daids

Oliver Daids

10 May 2016

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For the final project, I wanted to try something similar to the drawing software I did earlier in the semester (this), but spin it more as a self-contained interactive work in itself rather than a tool for making …

Oliver Daids

05 Apr 2016

For my final project, I want to reapproach my drawing application from a different angle.  Before, the drawing application was focused on the idea of being a general purpose tool for painting on arbitrary 3d geometry in a new way,

Oliver Daids

05 Apr 2016

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The dataset I worked with was Google Streetview, since it is a massive database of images documenting nearly every road in the U.S. and other countries.  Stop signs almost always appear around intersections …

Oliver Daids

23 Mar 2016

I’m interested in the Google Streetview database (https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/) since it contains images for just about every point along a road in the US.  Roads have fundamental ties to the physical systems of modern civilizations, so analyzing them is likely to …

Oliver Daids

23 Feb 2016

In general, I’m more interested in mapping the objects in and interaction with a place than the places themselves.  For my project, I intend to use multiple photographs featuring a common, recognizable object to reconstruct a composite 3d environment centered …

Oliver Daids

15 Feb 2016

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Code: https://github.com/Oddity007/3DAutomataPainting

As someone who does a lot of 3d modeling, I’ve always been frustrated with the tools available for texturing geometry. The traditional approach to texturing is to unwrap the 3d mesh into a 2d mesh and then paint …

Oliver Daids

02 Feb 2016

I liked Luca’s Twitter bot, @ThisThingIs for how it exposes the world of classification algorithms to the average person in an easily shareable way that is both comical and sometimes makes you realize that if you were to think about …

Oliver Daids

02 Feb 2016

Code: https://github.com/Oddity007/OF-Drone-Strike-Data-Viewer

Drone strikes are things that the average U.S. resident is well removed from. For most of us, drone strikes are these things that we know about and might joke about, but have never experienced and probably never will. …

Oliver Daids

02 Feb 2016

Code: https://github.com/Oddity007/OF-Drone-Strike-Data-Viewer

Using ofxJSON, I loaded the narrative information from the drone strike data.  I then extended my map application to display the headlines alongside the visualization.  Initially, the words would be obscured, but using a textbox provided by ofxDatGui …