Tom Says: Code something crazy every day you feel like it!
This is the first annual Me Update. I've got stuff going on, too.
First off, I should be sleeping. I'm to be waking up in a few hours to drive my grandma and myself somewhere, but since I've been going to sleep around that time for the past couple of days, I'm finding it difficult.
The most exciting thing on my plate right now is ctaps, which, for some reason I put on my Princeton web space rather than here. If you run OS X or Linux I entreat you to go run it right now. It's a rewrite of the amazing Tapestrea project in C and, if I do say so myself, it looks quite sick so far. It does nothing yet, but I'm slowly porting the bits over. But that's going slowly because…
I'm working on my Independent Work paper. Strangely, this is also a project to do with Tapestrea. Funny how procrastination works. While the paper's scope is much smaller than ctaps', it's due in a few days while ctaps is for fun. As you can imagine, there's a battle for my attention happening right now, especially considering…
I'm also working on my final project for Human-Computer Interfaces, which is to create hand gesture recognition software for controlling media players. Don is really the mastermind behind this. I've done some fun stuff by encoding the skin-detection algorithm set forth in "Statistical Color Models with Application to Skin Detection" by Jones and Rehg, and we may even get to use some of the Processing libraries I cooked up for a previous project, but Don is behind all of the computer vision algorithms that actually detect things. I'll have lots of cool stuff to write about when this is done.
Peace!
Posted Jan 02, 2008, in the late, late night.