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Fast Colgate Website

It has taken me a while to post this.  Back at Colgate, I thought there should be an easier way to navigate around my school’s many complicated websites. To solve the problem, I put together a site with links to the most frequently used pages by Colgate students. The site …

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Fluid Simulation

My recent work has been more typing than visuals - so this is part of a side project with Cinema 4D. 3D rending will be the easiest way to express some cool ideas. It is a little unfortunate that there isn't a way to visualize the core project, but this …

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Heating Your House With BOINC

We all know a bunch of environmentally friendly phrases, laws, axioms...  Recycle paper.  Turn off the lights.  Conserve water. Here is another one you might have heard:  Power down your computer when you are not using it. In summer climates, the above statement is true.  But, during the winter, the …

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3D Cellular Automata

This is a 3D cellular automata example written in just a few lines of Mathematica. To view and interact with the 3D CA object you will need the Wolfram Computable Document Format (CDF) player, available . For anyone uninitiated to the CDF format, the object above can be manipulated in 3D …

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Two Logos

I was playing around with logos today, trying out presentation methods and forms.  Here are two that might be nice to include on the blog: This first one is a loon, with the color scheme of a green financial services company.  For finance things, blue is usually a better color, …

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Catherine Chalmers

This is a website for artist Catherine Chalmers. The intent was to create a simple portfolio site to showcase her photographs and video.  The site design is a totally fluid layout, built to resemble a blank gallery space. Here is a link to the site.  

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Panorama Viewers Comparison

I have been thinking about adding a panorama viewer to a few of my pages, or eventually to a fullscreen Wordpress theme.  This weekend I did some research into the kinds of panorama viewers that could be incorporated into a website design. If you are not sure what a panorama …

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Cellular Animation

Here is some video from a cellular automata system. I started playing around with the footage to see how it would look at different speeds and scales. A future version of this video will be produced in 3D and look more like the video below. Animations of cellular automata are …

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4K Video from a DSLR

I recently made 4000 pixel by 4000 pixel (4k) video with an ordinary DSLR camera.  The example on this page shows curved video for a fulldome planetarium, but this technique will also work for producing standard footage. The Problem For a student, the main challenge in producing good 4k video is …

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Colgate Senior Show Photoshop

My senior year art class needed an image for advertising our final project art show - so I made something cool in Photoshop.  I put the faces from all twelve people in the art class into The Last Supper (La Cène) 1652 by Philippe de Champaigne.  Here it is:

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