Author: Mike Garrity

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Renderscript Teapot

Newell’s teapot is sort of the hello world of graphics weenies. I don’t really feel comfortable with a graphics library until I can draw the teapot with it. Here’s my first whack at it...

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Enough

in honor of Raj Rajartnam‘s conviction today, I’d like to mention a book I really enjoyed recently. Enough is by John C Bogle, the founder of Vanguard. He has a lot of opinions about...

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May Flowers

It’s the beginning of May, so there’s lots of action in the garden. Here are some pictures I took Sunday. One of our favorites this time of year are the phlox. We used to...

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Buxton Collection

Last year, I mentioned Bill Buxton‘s history of multi-touch UIs. Here’s something else of his you should check out. He’s posted a gallery of his wonderful collection of interesting input devices. It contains a...

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MIT150

MIT is 150 years old this year. As part of the celebrations, they had a big open house today. Every department threw their doors open, gave tours, and put on exhibits. Chris spent a...

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Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel has been causing a lot of buzz recently with his argument that higher education is currently going through a bubble and that kids should all skip college. If you haven’t been following...

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SynthCam

Marc Levoy’s group at Stanford has been doing lots of cool stuff for many years now. I first met him in the 80’s when I was doing volume rendering. But every time I go...

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Coldframe

Do you remember that kitchen cupboard we took down last fall? I’ve had the pieces lying around the workshop since then. It seemed like a waste to throw them out, especially since one side...

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Honeycomb

I recently got a Xoom to do some hacking around with Honeycomb. I just got Motorola’s drivers installed and got hooked up to it with DDMS. Here’s a screen capture of the RGB Cube...