Tech Fest

Photo Collages?  So old school...it's time to check out Video Collage.Video Collage is a compact representation of video.  It uses one automatically synthesized image to summarize the content of a video.  Video Collage selects the most representative frames from a video, extracts…

One would think that Real Time Rendering of Smoke Animation in this technological era would be a cake walk.  Well, it isn't and here's why:  Rendering of smoke presents a challenging problem in computer graphics because of its complicated effects on light propagation. Within a smoke…

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich, Web 2.0 visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. Choose from a growing number of interactive…

What a great time for BLEWS...while blogging about politics is at an all-time high, BLEWS simplifies the debates for you...here's what I found out at TechFest 2008.  While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader…