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by kevinalcantar
Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:58 am
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here
Replies: 21
Views: 37726

Re: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here

We did on research being conducted at UC Berkeley about reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity, which can be seen at the following link:https://sites.google.com/site/gallantlabucb/publications/nishimoto-et-al-2011 The Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley is doing research that aims to simulate ...
by kevinalcantar
Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:15 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk7 - Computational Camera
Replies: 25
Views: 104540

Re: Wk7 - Computational Camera

figure1.jpg In UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department, the researchers there are working on a personalized system for ranking amateur photographs. The system takes into account features such as RGB color, texture, black and white and portrait when ranking amateur phot...
by kevinalcantar
Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:25 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
Replies: 21
Views: 41409

Re: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper

I chose to attend the Elings Open House last Wednesday October 24th. I arrived later on in the day due to schedule conflicts but the first exhibition I saw was Marcos Novak's drone in the Translab. The drone was capable of detecting obstacles and objects in its environment and alter its flight path ...
by kevinalcantar
Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:43 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image
Replies: 24
Views: 36643

Re: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image

According to Roland Barthes, images can send out three messages: the liguistic message, denoted message and the connoted message. This is particularly true for advertisements. For example, consider this 1971 Mini Clubman Automatic advertisement. http://amdepalma.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/enhanced-...
by kevinalcantar
Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:19 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk03 - Chronophotography
Replies: 25
Views: 38975

Re: Wk03 - Chronophotography

“Crucial to this method was his technique of mapping points and trajectories, so that what unfolds over time in an image is another form of the trace – a series of lines and points, superimposed as it were, over the likeness of the body producing them, the superimposition becoming so dominant as to ...
by kevinalcantar
Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:30 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema
Replies: 28
Views: 51124

Re: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema

The eyes are perhaps the most important part of the human body. In essence, the eyes allow the brain to see and therefore interface with the outside world. The eyes convert the information viewed into mental images .These images go on to become the basis for our memories, influencing our actions, ch...
by kevinalcantar
Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:23 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk01 - Camera Obscura
Replies: 30
Views: 300176

Re: Wk01 - Camera Obscura

To understand the concept and overall science behind the camera obscura , it is perhaps necessary to examine it's origins. http://www.uh.edu/engines/pinholeprinciple.jpg The name camera obscura literally translates from Latin into "dark chamber" or "dark room." Indeed, the first proposed iterations ...