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Archive for January, 2012

Longest Document I’ve Ever Published

With recent milestones reached and a change in publication strategy, I decided to unleash some easy-to-run code along with the 535 pages which document the code as well as experiments that have been run using this code over the past year or so. The document is not as organised as it ought to be, but I hereby make a lot of stuff available in fairly raw form. I made an HTML version to overcome file size issues that are associated with PDF, not to mention accessibility issues.

Surface Matching With Statistics and Geometry: Technical Report for 2011 (PDF – 535 pages, HTML – multi-page layout)

In summary, performance verging state-of-the-art is reached. In order to pile up and share the approach/work done thus far (before proceeding with the exploratory direction of diffusion/other), these are hastily-assembled notes that weigh 60 MB (over 500 pages for this document) which contain a lot of material that can prove useful some time along the way. Here is a previous post with some shorter documents. They are all being uploaded as HTML and PDF once they become coherent enough, soon to be indexed and made accessible through the research page and Web search as well.

TechBytes Episode 66: Linux, Android, WebOS, Apple, and Patents

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Summary: Tim, Rusty and Roy join again for a sort of pilot of the second series (season equivalent, but an annual division)

This show primarily covers Linux, Android, WebOS, and gaming consoles. Soon enough we will have a new introduction and banner. The show’s layout has changed too.

We hope you will join us for future shows and consider subscribing to the show via the RSS feed. You can also visit our archives for past shows. If you have an Identi.ca account, consider subscribing to TechBytes in order to keep up to date.

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Research Posts to Resume Soon

LAST year (or at the end of 2010 to be more accurate) I started posting a lot more often about my work in this blog. I resumed what I had done years beforehand, even if that meant a loss of focus for this personal blog. But then again, this blog hardly ever had any single point of focus, so after the upcoming release of one gigantic PDF I will resume posting updates about my research on a more regular basis. This ought to achieve a more transparent communication of ideas. It is also a departure from the disappointing pace of blogging (about a post per week as of late).

Happy New Year (2012)

GIF Animations in LATEX

LATEX helps render for a variety of output types including posters and Web pages, not just A4 sheets. As a typesetting language it is very powerful, but for advanced functionality it requires additional packages, included in the preamble. It appears as though GIF animations are not supported in LATEX despite the fact that, if exported as Web pages for instance, the notion of animation makes sense. This is a shame really and if someone knows of a workaround, please leave a comment. I am currently writing a 400-page report which is a comprehensive summary of what I am doing and without animations it might be hard to express what is going on. For example compare the following triplet of static and dynamic (which HTML is happy with):

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Original styles created by Ian Main (all acknowledgements) • PHP scripts and styles later modified by Roy Schestowitz • Help yourself to a GPL'd copy
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