Thesis Completed

After a series of wonderfully meaty and complimentary reviews this past weekend and a document submittal this afternoon, my thesis is complete!  For those of you keeping up with this blog I will keep the content currently available here, however new posts regarding these topics will be folded in to my personal blog.  Look for an increased frequency of posts now that my life is mine again!  For this last post, I present a photostream documenting portions of my final presentation board.  Check it out!

Does Vision Have a Maximum FPS?

In the course of building the Frameless Movie Machine, I've been asked many times about the difference between a frame-based cinematic experience and human vision.  This article at 100fps provides a clear and succinct description of some of the peculiarities of trying to measure vision by this standard.

Castellum Umbrarum

This article from BLDGBLOG describes a 15th century cinematic design.  Venetian engineer Giovanni Fontana envisioned an immersive shadowbox, clad in translucent panels displaying the moving silhouettes of beasts and devils.

Movie Bar Code

Moviebarcode presents an interesting way of looking at film; the color of each moment compressed into a vertical spectrum providing a chromatic impression of each film. The above image is a compression of Terminator 2.

Frameless Movie Machine

I Finished the Frameless Movie Machine!  It turned out well and had a number of interesting and unforeseen effects.  Check out more pictures and a video of the machine in operation after the jump.

Midterm Review Video

Made it through the thesis studio midterm review! This is a compilation of the videos I presented. They were very well received, although apparently I took a bigger chance than I realized by using an unorthodox presentation technique. My continuing incomprehension with the prevailing styles of this school alternately helps me or bites me in the rear, with no way to tell which outcome is impending.

Augmented Gaming

This sort of DIY augmented reality is my favorite kind.  Technological progress has shot ahead of executed potential, and it's going to take a lot of creative leaps to understand the possibility and accessibility of these hybridized new technologies.

Facial Symmetry

I recall a study from a few years ago suggesting that Miss America pageant winners have above average symmetry in their faces.  Does that mean that this art piece by Julian Wolkenstein presents our most attractive possible selves?

2011

As I develop my thesis project more specifically in the coming year, watch this blog for design and experimental progress, in addition to continuing posts related to the subject of extra-dimensional architecture.

In the interests of cross-promotion, if you've found this blog you may also be interested in these two:

TSA Thesis Research  -  This is the online component of the Tulane Thesis Research Salon of which I've been a part throughout the last semester.

HatEric  -  This is my personal blog, which contains basically anything on the interwebs I find interesting enough to repost.