Archive for 2007
Automatic photograph orientation
I’ve finished my dissertation, this is it! I chose to research into the area of automatic photograph orientation, with the aim of implementing an application to correctly orientate images of incorrect orientations. I achieved a mark of 78% and was awarded the first prize for a multimedia project from the year. Automatic photograph orientation is [...]
Virtual environments
I’ve been working on my project for my Virtual Environments course non-stop for the past few weeks and it’s finally finished! I had to model a museum hallway and create a movie fly-through with a virtual camera. The emphasis was on advanced lighting and texturing as well as choreographing the virtual camera to make is [...]
Penguins news article
Josie was obsessed with the idea that global warming was killing the penguins (all the penguins) so we definitely had to prank her. I wrote a newspaper article, the intention was to distribute it to local and national papers…but the campaign never really got off the ground! The trick was to get the style and [...]
Too cold to snow
Is it actually possible for it to be ‘too cold to snow’? Or is it just an old wives tale? Well, why not research it and write up a highly biased paper on the subject? I made sure the paper was fully referenced, included tables and diagrams and was written with the proper tone of [...]
Internet technologies
I’ve just finished my Internet Technologies coursework and it’s brought everything together for me! We’ve been learning about XML, Javascript, CSS, Java servlets, XHTML and AJAX (which I’ve known about before) but now we’ve put them all together. We had to create an interactive crossword game using both server-side (Java servlet) and client side (Javascript). [...]