Joomla! site syndication http://thaines.net 2008-07-04T08:27:18+01:00 http://thaines.net http://thaines.net/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-04-24T15:32:26+01:00 http://thaines.net http://thaines.net/content/view/80/20/ Not sure how this happened but I seem to be doing 64 bit versions of Panda 3D (http://www.panda3d.net). Well, I guess I want them, so it makes sense to share. Anyway: panda3d_1.5.1-ubuntugutsy_x86_64.deb (http://www.thaines.net/content/panda3d/panda3d_1.5.1-ubuntugutsy_x86_64.deb) (Note: I've now tested the above under Hardy Heron - it works fine.) Be warned that no sound or video playback (ffmpeg) support is available, as these have yet to be ported to 64 bit. text/html 2008-03-22T17:05:07+01:00 http://thaines.net http://thaines.net/content/view/73/6/ Well, its been over six months since the last update. First there was the thing alluded to in the last post, then I broke my arm (Badly, like multiple fractures and a whole load of metal badly.) and now I'm in the last year of my PhD, which makes time something of a commodity. This weekend has proved free however and I thought I'd spend some of it polishing Cyclops just enough to do another release. text/html 2007-09-15T06:12:44+01:00 http://thaines.net http://thaines.net/content/view/71/16/ I've finally had a paper published, so thought I better put it up. I had to do a poster session, so I've also put up the poster; this is mainly because unlike the actual paper I had space for a diagram showing data flow, which makes things marginally easier to understand. As a quick summary the paper is dealing with the combining of stereopsis and shape from shading, using Gaussian belief propagation for the core component. Its rather esoteric, and the approach as a whole is not exactly simple. But the core algorithm and ideas are not that hard really - I don't think a simpler working approach to this problem is that likely. Of course, the usefulness is rather limited as its constrained by the limitations of both approaches, but it is (I hope) a small but valid step to something actually useful. Integrating Stereo with Shape-from-Shading derived Orientation Information (http://www.thaines.net/content/research/2007_BMVC.pdf) [PDF]. Poster of above (http://www.thaines.net/content/research/2007_BMVC_Poster.pdf) [PDF]. It may be found in the British Machine Vision Conference 2007, Vol. 2, pp 910-919. The BMVC website will also have a copy, incase there is a problem with my website. text/html 2007-07-18T15:06:07+01:00 http://thaines.net http://thaines.net/content/view/65/20/ Note: Since this post I've done the same thing to panda 1.5.0, the deb for gutsy gibbon of which may be found here (http://thaines.net/content/panda3d/panda3d_1.5.0-ubuntugutsy_x86_64.deb). This time the changes should make it into the cvs repository, so in the future 64 bit users should be able to compile it themselves. I might continue to provide .deb files if the panda site does not however. Panda 3D (http://www.panda3d.org) is a rather nice game making tool I use, mostly for messing around. Problem is there is no 64 bit version, nor has anyone converted it. (There about half way between being an open source project and a closed source one. Its a bit strange, source is available, but under a silly license. More critically they don't have the OS development spirit - there might as well be a wall between the community and the developers. Still a dam good piece of software, just needs to have its wings fully unpinned.) text/html 2007-06-26T10:56:08+01:00 http://thaines.net http://thaines.net/content/view/60/15/ I was trying to explain the above data structure to my brother, after concluding that instant messaging is not the best communication medium I gave up and drew a diagram instead. I have no idea if it has actually helped his brain get a handle on it, but as it could be of some use to someone else I though I'ld stick it up. Disjoint Set Data Structure Walkthrough (http://thaines.net/content/programming/forest.pdf). [PDF].