Category: Computing
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Updated Motion Camouflage Script
This weekend I worked on developing the “dragonfly” POV-Ray script some more. There are more details behind this idea in an earlier post. Here is the linear intercept video, without motion camouflage. You can see more movement against the background, especially in the early part. I think it helps to see this first for comparison…
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Motion Camouflage
I read an article by Mizutani et al. (2003) about how dragonflies can move while appearing to be stationary against their background. I’ve been thinking this over and wanted to see if I could simulate this to illustrate it and better understand it. Usually, we think of animals minimizing motion to blend into their background.…
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LibreOffice
Here is some software that I have been using, both at home and at work, almost daily for over 10 years now, and I am surprised it is not more widely adopted. LibreOffice is free, works across different computer operating systems, and is compatible with a wide range of file formats, including the ones found…
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AI guiding AI: ChatGPT & DALL·E 2
After the post about ChatGPT I thought about DALL·E 2 (an AI that generates images from simple text prompts) and wondered what might happen if I combined them. At first, I made a couple of prompts to DALL·E 2 to see what it would come up with. (Most of these images are just using DALL·E…
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Setting up this site
One of the reasons I started this site is to get into a practice of regular writing and to keep a bit of a log of some of the changes we are planning this year. (How I actually end up using this site, however, remains to be seen; it might evolve in a different direction.)…
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“Meet ChatGPT: Your New Favorite AI Language Model”
I logged in to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and asked it to tell me about itself so that I could post it. Here is the result. Sure, I would be happy to help you write a blog post about me! Here’s a draft that you can modify and post online: Meet ChatGPT: Your New Favorite AI Language…