Practical Course – Augmented Reality Applications

A few weeks ago, the Winter Semester 2009/2010 at Technische Universität München started and the hard work began again! I’m attending the Practical Course of Augmented Reality Applications and the challenge is to develop a game using Lego Mindstorm NXT and Augmented Reality.

Tomorrow will be the first presentation where we will present the inital idea of the game. There is no many details yet, but you can have a look and get some draft ideas. You can take a look…

Nokia PUSH: Great news!

Yesterday we had great news: our Nokia PUSH project ‘Sketch Your World’ was selected to be implemented!

Here is the project video:

And here is the PDF.

Now we have to work hard to give life to this beautiful idea! (OH MY GOD!) =D

More information: Nokia PUSH Official blog, Jeez post.

Nokia PUSH

We didn’t win, WE WON (http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/index.php/2009/11/09/if-we-could-draw-your-attention-for-a-moment/)!  but we tried hard. That’s the point with everything. =D

More details: jeez’s post and Nokia PUSH official blog.

Kunstformen der Natur – Ernst Haeckel

I while ago I read in a

what was defined by Manuel Lima [http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?author=1] as “outstanding work of nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel”. I got quite interested, primo because I find it very attracting the art that exits behind the nature forms, secondo it is quite nice to see works from the past.

Seurat vai à Rússia… [http://jeraman.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/seurat-vai-a-russia/]

where jeraman got inspired by a color photography of the beginning of 20th century by Prokudin-Gorskii

Kunstformen der Natur

I while ago I read two posts [subblue's post] [visualcomplexity's post]  discussing an illustrated book of 1904 which was defined by Manuel Lima as “an outstanding work of nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel”. The name of the book is …

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My First Random Song

Here is the MP3 file (or MIDI file) of my First Random Song .

I used JFugue to deal with MIDI stuff and implemented the code that generates chords sequence, notes duration and basic melody following some simple rules (e.g. the notes are from the C Major pentatonic scale and the chords are the simple: C F G Am).

Despite the simplicity, I really enjoyed the result. =D Well, I’ll give more details about the implementation later.

This is the first test of a project in which I’m studying new ways of composing music using multitouch tabletop interfaces. I’ll also talk about it later.

PS: the picture above I painted using ArtRage 2 Started Edition, it’s quite nice to play around with the tablet using this software. I don’t like to post anything without a picture… =)

Eurotrip: Italy, Vatican City, Monaco, France, Switzerland

22 days. 5 Brazilians. Tons of luggage. 1 cajon. 1 ukulele. 1 Fiat Punto. 3878  kilometers. 3 countries. 1 city-state. 1 principality. More than 15 cities. Lots of people we met. Lots of things we learnt. Thousands of photos. No more words.

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Computational Photography

This is the result of a Computational Photography assignment I finished a couple months ago.

http://www.filipecalegario.com/comppho/3assignment/

My desktop

3 months in Munich. Lots of things learned. Lots of interesting projects. Understanding a little more German! =D

Guiness, alotof!

Last trip to Dublin. Heineken, Guiness and with “saudades de” Faringes da Paixão.

twittered now!

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for those who don’t know the idea behind it: