Not all that long ago, I wanted to work in a field that offered excitement. So I joined the Army. Then I wanted a stable life. So I settled into working for the local telephone company in my home state. …
Visualization: Workplace Woodstock
A while back, a group of us went on a ‘man-hike’ in the forests of the Portland West Hills; A small posse of men that I met with on a frequent basis to talk about life, vocations, and purpose. It’s …
Visualization: The Art of Illumination
A few years ago I was at an American Institute of Architects (AIA) conference entitled ‘The New Now‘ held at the beautiful Salishan Resort on the Oregon Coast. It was fun to experience brilliant design minds coming together to speak …
Visualization: “Seeking Cyborg for Interactive Long Walks…”
How we interact with data continues to be a hot trend in the information technology (IT) world. The ability to navigate and have a somewhat ‘tactile’ approach to learning and assimilation has developers working around the clock to provide consumer …
Visualization: Extraction Deux – The Enigma of Geometry
Geometry. Mathematics of shape and size and position. The subject of patterns has captivated me for many years. There is something a little mysterious about this subject. This idea of hidden meaning behind simple lines, colors, and otherwise mundane arrangements …
Visualization: Extractions
Taking pictures is just the beginning of today’s data sets. People want to mine visualizations for all they’re worth. It is not enough in the AEC world to simply have a visual representation of infrastructure. They want to have geometry …
Visualization: Loving the Journey – A Path to Mastery
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: At the writing of this, for the past several weeks, we’ve been working a ton of hours – There were tough deadlines and several unexpected glitches with conversion software. I’ve come to accept this …
Visualization: The Creators of Tomorrow (and those that help them)
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: HAL: “That’s a very nice rendering, Dave…” Covering the basic premise of rendering and animation does little to explain what good it can do for us. But the visions of scientists and innovators are …
Visualization: MODO-tion
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: Wiki defines animation as, “the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement.” The information technology industry, which has widely been used as an entertainment tool, is extensively used …
Visualization: “Render-me-Baker”
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: It is becoming almost impossible to tell what is visually real or computer graphic (CG) generated today. This is made possible by incredible advances in both hardware and software to process millions of pixels …
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