January 2012
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July 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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HTML5 Panorama Viewer
Recently, while working with panoramic images for my research, I decided to implement a panorama viewer purely in HTML5. Most panorama viewers online require plugins like Flash or Java, but since HTML5 has a shiny new canvas element, I thought it would be a worthwhile experiment.
The viewer assumes a cylindrical projection. Essentially, by slicing up the original image, we can independently...
January 2011
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November 2010
2 posts
One Question IQ-Test
Here’s a one-question IQ Test to help you decide how you should spend the rest of your day … There is a mute who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one’s teeth, he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Now, if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself? Think about...
October 2010
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August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
4 posts
“Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.”
– John Lennon
June 2010
3 posts
On my mind
Research, applied v/s natural science, life & death, family, love, passion, kindness, money, friends, my country, reading, worrying, living in the moment, awareness, humility, caring, writing more, writing better, novel ideas, sustainable transport, flora, eating healthy, vegetarianism, music as a powerful medium of communication, fear, giving gifts, making a difference, giving back to the...
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
5 posts
Lyrics Week: A Summary
If you are one of the countless many (119) people that follow the tweets of @arktemplar, you would have noticed a series of tweets containing lyrics from a few selected songs, dubbed ‘lyrics week’. Here’s a quick recap of the tweets and the songs from which they were sourced. For those with Spotify, check out the ‘Lyrics Week’ playlist:
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“Got it...
“As you read these words, consider stopping for a moment and contemplating the...”
– David Wallechinsky
March 2010
3 posts
I could stare at this website all day. →
February 2010
6 posts
January 2010
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December 2009
10 posts
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior...”
– Steve Jobs, on the meaning of Design.
Slow Shutter-speed Photography. →
Amazing.
An Eventful Day
A few things I did today: (This is meant to be more of a personal log, than a blog post. Regardless, hope it’s fun to read)
- Went on a 5-hour (about 11mi) hike on Dungeness Spit (pictured above), with a friend (who incidentally suffered from an inexplicable bout of the hiccups the whole day!). The ‘spit’ is an outcrop of beach north of the Olympic Peninsula (map). Rode a...
November 2009
7 posts
