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Mouse-drawing boxes in gwt-phys2d; Google Code repository
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
I’ve added in support for drawing your own boxes (as many as you want!) into gwt-phys2d. It’s fun to try to do things like create a long see-saw shape and try to balance boxes on both sides. Check it out: http://gwt-phys2d.appspot.com/
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Initial release of gwt-phys2d (Javascript/GWT physics engine)
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
I’ve been exposing myself to web programming lately, and in order to teach myself how to use Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Google App Engine (GAE), the Eclipse development environment, and Javascript. Yes, it’s a Javascript physics engine - committing the occasional digital ( Read more... ) -
Click-based visualization of the relationships between scientific fields
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
Many of you have likely already seen the maps of scientific fields generated based on citation information. In those visualizations, different scientific fields whose papers cite each other regularly get linked closely together on the map, and it produces a neat depiction of ( Read more... ) -
Spinning dancer illusion; left brain vs. right brain hype?
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
Many of you have probably seen this animation of a spinning dancer silhouette from the Daily Telegraph, as it’s been making the rounds on various blogs and social networking sites. It’s a neat animation, but the blurb also states the following:
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Video of BrainPort on Today Show
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
There’s a rather neat video from the Today Show featuring blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and a researcher, discussing BrainPort, a system which takes visual input from a camera and outputs as an array of tongue stimulation. Erik demonstrates recognizing some written numerals, ( Read more... ) -
Animaniacs flashback: Pinky and the Brain sing about neuroanatomy
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
Back when I was a youngin’, I dearly loved the characters Pinky and the Brain from the Animaniacs show; eventually the megalomaniacal rodent and his unique friend spun off into their own dedicated series. One of my favorite childhood memories is of the charmingly surreal ( Read more... ) -
Free articles on visual masking
Originally published at Edge of Vision. Please leave any comments there.
According to an announcement (pasted below) on visionlist, the current issue of Advances in Cognitive Psychology is a special issue all about visual masking. The issue (consisting of 27 papers) is entirely free to download, and seems to be a pretty nice overview of recent ( Read more... )
