ransparency can be a way of life to those who wish to expose what they are doing. Since 2002 when I built this Web site I have made many aspects of my life public and this did not cause much trouble at all. Transparency leads to a state where there are no secrets and thus there is little room for scandals or mischief. Last night I was challenged by a friend to whom my preference of transparency seemed inadequate. This is fine. Well, more and more people willingly become more transparent over time (sadly in Web sites like Facebook which exploit them) and their eagerness to share personal material is proving infectious. Governments too are starting to find out that sooner or later data which they keep secret will leak and Neelie Kroes rightly pointed out that Wikileaks/Cablegate will push more governments toward becoming transparent.
he animated figure below shows how contouring is done with a new and improved algorithm in place. The sequence is show in reverse, as the window titles help indicate. Arrows can be put on top of the contour to signal the direction of movement of each landmark point, but arrow can in general add clutter and it may be worth taking a group of several points and study based on these the direction of movement of entire region, then display fewer large arrows.
Summary: Tim and Roy speak about some recent news and discuss the world of GNU/Linux gaming
ODAY’S show was covering games for GNU/Linux and to some degree phones running Linux as well. We left our discussion about trolls and lobbying to tomorrow’s show and OpenBytes will have published the show notes by then (it’s late now in the UK).
Summary: A few hot topics from the past few days are debated and we also make a mention of Mono proponents
ODAY’S show was a short one as it was not scheduled and erratic work schedule harmed our regular pace. Gordon was absent, but he will be back in the next show. OpenBytes has published the show notes just now.
Summary: After almost a week (due to absence) we return to covering and debating recent stories of relevance within our scope
ODAY’S show covers many topics ranging from Google’s new operating system to Microsoft’s slow death in the mobile space. OpenBytes has published the show notes containing some of the topics we ran through.
oday I implemented circular arrangement of landmark points for the algorithm to identify something approximate/similar to the shape of the heart and then place a given number of points around there. In addition, a boundary is shown by sampling between those points, which gives a contour, with or without arrows on top of it. I will upload the code shortly (needs tidying up).
ather than use the line function in Octave I’ve created a function that can draw several types of arrow, either with colour gradients or uniform, thick or thin (these are parameterised). I’ll soon publish the code.
The shown above arrows are very tiny, but there is a small arrowhead that tells which direction the points move in. Additionally, I have been implementing some 3-D means of visualising what is being done, but it is too early to show the results of this, possibly with arrows in hyperspace too.
These new exemplary images show a surface yielded with ‘hot’ colours where I move landmark points in between frames. It’s still work in progress.
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ransparency can be a way of life to those who wish to expose what they are doing. Since 2002 when I built this Web site I have made many aspects of my life public and this did not cause much trouble at all. Transparency leads to a state where there are no secrets and thus there is little room for scandals or mischief. Last night I was challenged by a friend to whom my preference of transparency seemed inadequate. This is fine. Well, more and more people willingly become more transparent over time (sadly in Web sites like Facebook which exploit them) and their eagerness to share personal material is proving infectious. Governments too are starting to find out that sooner or later data which they keep secret will leak and Neelie Kroes rightly pointed out that Wikileaks/Cablegate will push more governments toward becoming transparent.
Today’s show ends with “Paper Gown” by Caroline Herring (from SXSW 2009 Showcasing Artists). We hope you will join us for future shows and 
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