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  Just a blog featuring various interesting stuff

  • [+] 2012

    Posts from 2012

    • [•] 3D Homography transform

      A 2D homography is the well known ‘perspective transformation’, File::DXF contains a tool for performing a plane-preserving, collinear homography on 3D objects.

    • [•] Buildings paper: Methods for Creating Curved Shell Structures From Sheet Materials

      This paper describes some methods for producing developable surfaces with practical applications for creating useful lightweight, rigid, jig-less and elegant structural forms from sheet materials. Multiple related techniques based on the same fundamental principle can be used to generate a variety of interesting singly curved and doubly curved shapes. The system requires a minimum of specialist software, and is described in simple steps that can be followed by the reader with access to basic 3D CAD tools.

    • [•] Lotus Sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed

      The Lotus sculpture at the Goodwood festival of Speed was in the form of a 28m high trefoil knot.

    • [•] ptomorph panorama stitching aid

      The old PTStitcher tool contained a ‘morph-to-fit’ option that helps with stitching panoramas with parallax errors. This had various issues, ptomorph is a command-line tool to get better morphing with Hugin.