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- Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:58 am
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here
- Replies: 21
- Views: 39754
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 ...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:15 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk7 - Computational Camera
- Replies: 25
- Views: 109295
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...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:25 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
- Replies: 21
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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 ...
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:43 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38188
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-...
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:19 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk03 - Chronophotography
- Replies: 25
- Views: 40852
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 ...
- Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:30 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema
- Replies: 28
- Views: 53044
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...
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:23 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk01 - Camera Obscura
- Replies: 30
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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 ...