good web game for nerds, germans
This web game where you have to do various geometric things by eye–finding midpoints of lines, convergence of three lines, sides of a parallelogram–is pretty addicting, at least for me. My natural talents apparently, lie more in bisecting angles than finding the center point between three edges of a triangle.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am
What was your score the first time you played?
Upgrade ideas:
1) keyboard support. (my mousing is very inaccurate)
2) time-weighted scores. (I already tried doing it as fast as I could. my score was worse, but not terrible.)
October 20th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
My first score was 3.44, I think.
Good suggestions on the upgrades. I didn’t have too much accuracy with my trackpad.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
My first score was 2.76 with a ThinkPad trackpoint. I tried it a second time and got 1.76, again with a trackpoint. Certainly, taking more time will produce better scores – especially in situations where you have to estimate multiple distances or angles, like in the triangle center and convergence tests.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:24 am
Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene
October 27th, 2008 at 7:18 am
How did you find that site? I just discovered it independently after looking for info on the possibility of using a flat-bed scanner instead of film on an 8×10 view camera. The same guy built a rotating camera with a scanner element inside: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
He’s done a bunch of interesting projects, including writing the program for parsing exif data (Jhead) that’s used by the open-source photo website engine Gallery. He’s got a list of his projects here: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/index.html
October 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I think someone had a link in their status message, perhaps. That’s pretty cool about flatbed scanner camera.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Yeah, I guess this stuff is a few years old, but I found a few pages on using entire flatbed scanners or only their imaging elements in view cameras, panoramic cameras and slit-scan cameras.
Best view camera stuff:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich/Papers/EG.04.pdf and
http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras/index.html
Best panoramic/slit-scan:
http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-slit-scan.html
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/photofile-c/strip-linear-train-1m.jpg
General but using panoramic/slit-scan technique:
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
All of these things have given me plenty to think about.