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KNALIJ:
Sci2 (Science of Science) Tool:
sci2.cns.iu.edu/user/index.php
These two scientific data mining and knowledge visualization tools
have a certain amount in common. Both tools are free, and support
research and data visualization of the science on a topic. Firstly and
foremost for me, both of these are items I discovered through the
kindness and sharing of my professional library colleagues. The first
time I saw anything about KNALIJ was literally on our library
information screen, where one of my peers in our library had selected
it as the tool of the week. I have my suspicions as to who might have
chosen it, but I'm not sure. However, for Sci2 I definitely know who
it was. I had just started to write this post when Kristi Holmes pinged me
on Twitter with the info about Sci2.
KNALIJ allows you to do a Pubmed search and then displays an
interactive bubble map of either the results, co-authorship, journals,
or impact of funding. For the results map, it selects a set of the
most current articles on your search topic. How many is not something
I'm sure of, and I did not see any results earlier than 2009 in my
searches. The display shows you the most commonly associated subject
headings for your term, with bubbles. The more results for a concept,
the larger the bubble; the more central a concept the hotter the
colors. The maps are interactive, allowing you to mouse over and get
more information about a bubble and its relationships. They also allow
you to output a PDF of the generated map.
I tried both simple and complex searches. I found some of the most
intriguing maps from doing simple searches on large topic domains.
More complex searches seemed to have peculiar results that made me
question how the interface was mapping the search over to Pubmed. The
unclear limit on what subset of the database is being searched also
compromises the results for the purpose of doing actual research,
however the results are quite fascinating for illustrating concepts
for students or an audience. My test was a very quick and dirty one,
so perhaps with further exploration of the advanced search features,
prefs and search builder I might be able to clarify some of what I was
trying to do.
Now, for Sci2, it is a similar kind of tool, but more clearly and
robustly serving the goals of scientists for doing actual research and
creating publishable graphics.
In their words:
"The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically
designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal,
geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of
scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro
(global) levels."
Sci2 does not analyze PubMed data but instead the ISI Web of
Knowledge. It gives more obvious control of the data set and outputs,
but of course demands a greater investment of time in learning how to
use it effectively and appropriately.
Both of these are interesting tools, useful, but for rather different
purposes, despite some of the superficial similarities.
Pictured - Private Bradley Smith (20) uses the BAT(Biometric Automated Toolset) at the Pan Kalay Check Point. The Bat is used to identify possible insurgents through finger prints and a retina scan.
Soldiers from the Assault Pioneer Platoon, C company, 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment based at CP(Check Point) Pan Kala work alongside the ANCOP( Afghanistan National Civil Order police) to secure newly built route 611 between Garmisir and Sangin.
Dan Gartner's Presentation on Release Management
Presentation sponsored by SWC Technology Partners in Oak Brook
About the Presentation:
Reduce your cycle time to improve your value delivery
The faster your software is deployed, the quicker you can get feedback. With release management in Visual Studio you can configure, approve and deploy your applications for any environment. Create automated deployment orchestrations for each environment no matter how complex the configuration. Delivering your software more frequently and easily to an environment allows your testers to get to work validating your system and keeps your stakeholders involved in giving feedback.
This presentation will walk-through the steps of creating a release pipeline using the RM Client, defining the mechanics of deploying with deployment sequences, giving business users control with approval workflows, and continuous delivery integration with Visual Studio and TFS.
• Overview of Continuous Delivery
• Overview of Release Management for 2013
• Demos of Configuring Release Paths
• Demos of Business Approval Workflow
• Demo of Defining a Release Template
• Demo of Initiating a Release
www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/release-management-vs....
About the presenter:
Dan Gartner is a Developer Tools Specialist for Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for the past six years working with customers and partners, primarily focused on optimizing and improving ALM processes, and improving software quality with the Microsoft toolset. He is a CSM, CSD and has a MS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Loud Objects (Tristan Perich and Kunal Gupta) at iMAL, november 16, 2010, beginning with a Noise Toy mini-workshop including Erg students, then for a performance-concert.
Loud Objects' performances start with punctuated silence as they begin to solder together microprocessors on an overhead projector, exploding into noise when the initial circuit is assembled and new chips are added and rewired. Their entire toolset consists of soldering irons, power and audio jacks, and a handful of Atmel microprocessors, pre-programmed in C via USB from a laptop using tuxgraphics' AVR programmer.
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SampleBoard.com presents a new and innovative way to create and present your ideas and vision by using the web-based interactive editor. It enables designers from different design disciplines (graphic, web, interiors, landscape, fashion and wedding planning) and backgrounds to collaborate on design projects, share their creative portfolio online and get exposure for business opportunities through the public design directory.
The web editor allows you to quickly and easily pull together design trends, colour schemes, textures and products via a convenient drag-and-drop function, using the rich editing toolset with over 30,000 product images from the library or your own images uploaded onto the system from your personal profile.
2009 December 24 - Dragon Age character Leliana v1.3 face head mod toolset - Made this for myself to replace the default, but I give up, I'm going to quit dinking around for now. Gotta actually get further in the game than 15% complete, hehehe :P
Nothing I do looks good in party camp during the "romance tree" sequences it seems...bad lighting is at fault IMHO, and that isn't something I can change. X_x
OTOH she looks good at medium range, if I do say so myself. @_@ Other face mod versions are too highly sexualized for my taste. She swings both ways, but she's still a pious sweetie with the killer bard buffs & insane archery skills.
Notes:
Slightly larger "sculpted" gray eyes -- going for a more "doe-eyed" look & "ice blue" looked too much like doll eyes
Raised eyebrows slightly to counteract excessive emotion animation
Hair is default color; eyebrows are red @ 80% opacity
Made lips thinner
Eye shadow is dark green at 40% opacity instead of orange; trying for depth
The nose was hardest; not sure what to do with it, but it's a major facial landmark--so I tried to make my idea of a quintessential French nose
Would have been nice to work from a copy of the default design just to correct the few things that looked awkward, but well...starting from scratch wasn't so bad. o_O;
DOWNLOAD v1.1 HERE: social.bioware.com/project/1506/#details
Plex CEO Mark Symonds with Doug Hockenbrocht, Justin Combs, Yuzo Suzuki, Kristin Van Duelmen, Stefanie Krause, Monti Piccioni and Daniel Mullins.
Plante Moran is a leading global implementer of Plex Online, providing cost effective solutions within automotive, Japanese, food and beverage, and private equity. We bring a robust toolset and project management methodology to successfully lead implementations for start-ups through global, multi-location companies. In addition to/conjunction with Plex services, we offer international consulting/tax, due diligence, IT infrastructure, IT security, organizational development, and financial audit services. Plante Moran is the 12th largest accounting, tax, and management consulting firm in the nation. To learn more, please visit plantemoran.com.
Plex Systems provides Plex Online, a Cloud ERP solution with comprehensive features covering the entire manufacturing enterprise. Learn more at www.plex.com
PowerPlex is the annual users conference for the community of Plex Online customers. Learn more at www.plex.com/powerplex
Dan Gartner's Presentation on Release Management
Presentation sponsored by SWC Technology Partners in Oak Brook
About the Presentation:
Reduce your cycle time to improve your value delivery
The faster your software is deployed, the quicker you can get feedback. With release management in Visual Studio you can configure, approve and deploy your applications for any environment. Create automated deployment orchestrations for each environment no matter how complex the configuration. Delivering your software more frequently and easily to an environment allows your testers to get to work validating your system and keeps your stakeholders involved in giving feedback.
This presentation will walk-through the steps of creating a release pipeline using the RM Client, defining the mechanics of deploying with deployment sequences, giving business users control with approval workflows, and continuous delivery integration with Visual Studio and TFS.
• Overview of Continuous Delivery
• Overview of Release Management for 2013
• Demos of Configuring Release Paths
• Demos of Business Approval Workflow
• Demo of Defining a Release Template
• Demo of Initiating a Release
www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/release-management-vs....
About the presenter:
Dan Gartner is a Developer Tools Specialist for Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for the past six years working with customers and partners, primarily focused on optimizing and improving ALM processes, and improving software quality with the Microsoft toolset. He is a CSM, CSD and has a MS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
From the same Friday (19th Feb 2010) as Turbulence over Paradise , www.flickr.com/photos/nhilmy/4378186376/
With a nearly uninterrupted horizon, the barrel distortion at the wide end of the 14-24 was noticeable to me for the first time. I used the Photoshop lens correction tool. Lightroom 3 better have that within its toolset.
Taken with a Nikon D700 and Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G
@ 14mm, 1/1600s, f/8, ISO 200
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Loud Objects (Tristan Perich and Kunal Gupta) at iMAL, november 16, 2010, beginning with a Noise Toy mini-workshop including Erg students, then for a performance-concert.
Loud Objects' performances start with punctuated silence as they begin to solder together microprocessors on an overhead projector, exploding into noise when the initial circuit is assembled and new chips are added and rewired. Their entire toolset consists of soldering irons, power and audio jacks, and a handful of Atmel microprocessors, pre-programmed in C via USB from a laptop using tuxgraphics' AVR programmer.
More :
Dan Gartner's Presentation on Release Management
Presentation sponsored by SWC Technology Partners in Oak Brook
About the Presentation:
Reduce your cycle time to improve your value delivery
The faster your software is deployed, the quicker you can get feedback. With release management in Visual Studio you can configure, approve and deploy your applications for any environment. Create automated deployment orchestrations for each environment no matter how complex the configuration. Delivering your software more frequently and easily to an environment allows your testers to get to work validating your system and keeps your stakeholders involved in giving feedback.
This presentation will walk-through the steps of creating a release pipeline using the RM Client, defining the mechanics of deploying with deployment sequences, giving business users control with approval workflows, and continuous delivery integration with Visual Studio and TFS.
• Overview of Continuous Delivery
• Overview of Release Management for 2013
• Demos of Configuring Release Paths
• Demos of Business Approval Workflow
• Demo of Defining a Release Template
• Demo of Initiating a Release
www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/release-management-vs....
About the presenter:
Dan Gartner is a Developer Tools Specialist for Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for the past six years working with customers and partners, primarily focused on optimizing and improving ALM processes, and improving software quality with the Microsoft toolset. He is a CSM, CSD and has a MS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Dan Gartner's Presentation on Release Management
Presentation sponsored by SWC Technology Partners in Oak Brook
About the Presentation:
Reduce your cycle time to improve your value delivery
The faster your software is deployed, the quicker you can get feedback. With release management in Visual Studio you can configure, approve and deploy your applications for any environment. Create automated deployment orchestrations for each environment no matter how complex the configuration. Delivering your software more frequently and easily to an environment allows your testers to get to work validating your system and keeps your stakeholders involved in giving feedback.
This presentation will walk-through the steps of creating a release pipeline using the RM Client, defining the mechanics of deploying with deployment sequences, giving business users control with approval workflows, and continuous delivery integration with Visual Studio and TFS.
• Overview of Continuous Delivery
• Overview of Release Management for 2013
• Demos of Configuring Release Paths
• Demos of Business Approval Workflow
• Demo of Defining a Release Template
• Demo of Initiating a Release
www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/release-management-vs....
About the presenter:
Dan Gartner is a Developer Tools Specialist for Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for the past six years working with customers and partners, primarily focused on optimizing and improving ALM processes, and improving software quality with the Microsoft toolset. He is a CSM, CSD and has a MS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
KNALIJ:
Sci2 (Science of Science) Tool:
sci2.cns.iu.edu/user/index.php
These two scientific data mining and knowledge visualization tools
have a certain amount in common. Both tools are free, and support
research and data visualization of the science on a topic. Firstly and
foremost for me, both of these are items I discovered through the
kindness and sharing of my professional library colleagues. The first
time I saw anything about KNALIJ was literally on our library
information screen, where one of my peers in our library had selected
it as the tool of the week. I have my suspicions as to who might have
chosen it, but I'm not sure. However, for Sci2 I definitely know who
it was. I had just started to write this post when Kristi Holmes pinged me
on Twitter with the info about Sci2.
KNALIJ allows you to do a Pubmed search and then displays an
interactive bubble map of either the results, co-authorship, journals,
or impact of funding. For the results map, it selects a set of the
most current articles on your search topic. How many is not something
I'm sure of, and I did not see any results earlier than 2009 in my
searches. The display shows you the most commonly associated subject
headings for your term, with bubbles. The more results for a concept,
the larger the bubble; the more central a concept the hotter the
colors. The maps are interactive, allowing you to mouse over and get
more information about a bubble and its relationships. They also allow
you to output a PDF of the generated map.
I tried both simple and complex searches. I found some of the most
intriguing maps from doing simple searches on large topic domains.
More complex searches seemed to have peculiar results that made me
question how the interface was mapping the search over to Pubmed. The
unclear limit on what subset of the database is being searched also
compromises the results for the purpose of doing actual research,
however the results are quite fascinating for illustrating concepts
for students or an audience. My test was a very quick and dirty one,
so perhaps with further exploration of the advanced search features,
prefs and search builder I might be able to clarify some of what I was
trying to do.
Now, for Sci2, it is a similar kind of tool, but more clearly and
robustly serving the goals of scientists for doing actual research and
creating publishable graphics.
In their words:
"The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically
designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal,
geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of
scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro
(global) levels."
Sci2 does not analyze PubMed data but instead the ISI Web of
Knowledge. It gives more obvious control of the data set and outputs,
but of course demands a greater investment of time in learning how to
use it effectively and appropriately.
Both of these are interesting tools, useful, but for rather different
purposes, despite some of the superficial similarities.
Loud Objects (Tristan Perich and Kunal Gupta) at iMAL, november 16, 2010, beginning with a Noise Toy mini-workshop including Erg students, then for a performance-concert.
Loud Objects' performances start with punctuated silence as they begin to solder together microprocessors on an overhead projector, exploding into noise when the initial circuit is assembled and new chips are added and rewired. Their entire toolset consists of soldering irons, power and audio jacks, and a handful of Atmel microprocessors, pre-programmed in C via USB from a laptop using tuxgraphics' AVR programmer.
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This contactless/NFC SDK contains two NFC enabled readers in desktop and USB token formfactor. Together with a variety of popular contactless tags along with documentation, source code samples (VC++, Delphi, C# and VB.Net) demo applications and the professional version of Smartcard Commander, a powerful easy to handle script based software for development and application testing.
This comprehensive bundle, makes it a valuable toolset for software engineers who develop applications based on SCM Microsystems contactless smart card reader portfolio allowing to incorporate various contactless smart chip technologies into their applications based on most common standards such as ISO14443, Mifare and FeliCa.
Professional Diamond CNC Engraving Bits, Router Cutters for Granite CNC Engraver- 20,60,90 Degree ASTECH Tools
created using:
Anna Aspnes Designs
ArtPlay Palette Time
StripedEdge Overlays No. 1
ScriptTease Nature No. 1
UrbanThreadz No. 9
TapedTextures No. 3
Dripped No. 5
Dripped ToolSet No. 2
also used:
Whispers: Nature by Sahlin Studio
Midnight Reverie by Rucola Designs
The photo was edited with PhotoDonut.
Thanks for looking!
Eszter
Tonight I went to the Cincinnati .NET User's Group. In fact, I had a 15 minute presentation on the Flickr API (hopefully I didn't bore everyone in attendance). This week I won the very last door prize - a small toolset. Hey, it's free!
Above: Comparative out of the box/default output from Aperture (left side) and Lightroom (right side). Note how Aperture has a slightly more red tint with greater contrast, more color saturation and a bit more noise, especially in the shadows.
all review sections:
part 3: editing and output
Summary
Aperture: More limited and simplistic toolset with more powerful functionality hidden by default. More contrast and saturated look in output; concern about noise and shadow artifacts.
Lightroom: Very full featured, more intuitive, vibrance and recovery a real asset. Colors and contrast more toned down out of the box, more realistic or film look.
Winner: Adobe’s been in the RAW conversion and editing business much longer than Apple, and it shows. Lightroom seriously overpowers the competition here.
Once you have your keeper shots ready, it is time to use the program’s built in RAW converter to make adjustments and output your final product.
Aperture and Lightroom have similar base editing options such as exposure, contrast and white balance, but Lightroom is much more full featured in its implementation. On the exposure and color adjustment side, making changes are more intuitive with Adobe’s curve (vs. Aperture’s levels tool), especially with the targeted adjustment tool. More specifically, with the tool you literally click on a part of the desired shot that has the color or tone you want to change and simply drag your mouse up or down to make that curve point or tone lighter or darker. It’s brilliantly implemented and extremely useful. Lightroom has a more comprehensive set of advanced options as well, from a useful vibrance and recovery slider to split toning and more comprehensive black and white conversion tool. Only a very simplistic and limited noise reduction and sharpening tool were disappointments.
Aperture, very much in fashion with the more simplistic approach favored by Apple, has a more limited toolset that does offer some serious, advanced functionality beneath the hood. I was pleased to see Aperture was equipped with a comprehensive noise reduction and sharpening tool that offered a lot of control. That said, for a pro application, especially compared to Lightroom, Aperture’s editing tools are just too simple. Furthermore, the fact that Aperture doesn’t offer presets for things like white balance (while easily added by the user) is a bit annoying.
In terms of output, in the large series of test comparisons I threw at it, both Aperture and Lightroom offer somewhat similar performance, especially in low contrast, daytime, low ISO shots. Aperture out of the box tends to apply more color saturation and boost contrast with its shots, while in Lightroom the colors and contrast are more subdued, giving a slightly more realistic or film like look.
That said, output does have a few noticeable exceptions of personal concern. First of all, under its default white balance Lightroom generally got the colors closer to the original RAW reflected on the LCD of my Nikon D200. Aperture had a bit of a reddish tint. In addition, perhaps as a side effect of Aperture’s more “aggressive” approach to saturation and contrast I found noticeably more noise and traceable artifacts, especially in the shadows. Even cutting down on contrast, saturation and Aperture’s “boost” tool did little to get rid of this noise. From further investigation online, it appears this poor shadow artifact/noise produces some some annoying results when doing large prints. Perhaps it’s a nonissue, but nevertheless it was a concern to me.
The bike coop is located in a university parking garage. A nice example of an inverted "U" beckons cyclists inside. Services include secure valet bike parking and workbenches and toolsets to rent for do it yourself cyclists.
I took a break from shooting today for some serious learning. I've long said that the one major gap in my photography toolset is not knowing how to use a flash. That's no longer the case. I made this shot to mark the day in my photo journal. I don't actually own a flash, so I did this by setting up a long exposure on my SLR and then taking pictures with my point-and-shoot flash whenever the cat exited the door. Once I actually get my hands on a flash I will at least understand a good portion of key and fill flash theory and how to combine with ISO and shutter speed for well balanced images. Mastery will come in time with much practice no doubt.
Townsend, TN - Visiting the area for a wedding, we stayed at an inn with interesting architecture (cantilever barn construction). Unfortunately the only camera I had with me on this short trip was my iPhone 7. I took it as a fun challenge, and an opportunity to try using Adobe's toolset and support for raw from the iPhone's camera.
Very very lightly staged clearing some clutter, tidying the furniture, and adjusting the shades.
Ambient only, taken with iPhone 7 in LR Mobile to capture in DNG format. Brought over to laptop for post, with cloning touchup and perspective corrections in PS CC, finishing in LR CC.
Marketing Asset Management Digital Distributed Marketing Resource Management Video bit.ly/pZgRcn
What does SproutLoud do?
SproutLoud helps companies manage their brands in local-level marketing. Our comprehensive marketing campaign management system is designed to engage your local marketing network and increase their participation in corporate marketing programs. Local marketers – the retailers, agents/field sales, franchises, buying groups, and VAR providers that sell your products and services - can access the materials they need in the media of their choice, customize them, and reach their target audience with brand-controlled messaging. Our easy-to-use toolset facilitates managing and deploying your marketing materials for both offline and digital marketing strategy.
In addition to managing brand compliance, SproutLoud solutions streamline co-op and MDF fund disbursement through local-level marketing program execution - improving speed to market, automating manual tasks, and saving companies valuable resources - everything marketing automation software should do. The platform also provides actionable business intelligence through robust reporting , giving you full-transparency into local marketing activities and the ability to quickly respond to marketing opportunities and optimize ROI in your local markets.
I thought it would be fun to give myself a one day challenge to create a basic - but accurate one piece swimsuit. Setting limits helps to hone skills and drive personal development.
Rules:
Create a simple one piece swimsuit fitted to Meshbody Legacy Female (other bodies can be fit later on).
No fabric simulation tools or anything beyond basic polygon modeling toolset.
Yes - Maya poly modeling toolset (faces, edges, vertices, extrusion, symmetrical editing, soft selection)
No - Marvellous Designer or any other similar tool.
Starting with a simple 16 division cylinder, I used edge extrusion to build up the basic mesh shape and manual vertice movement to refine the garment step by step. Early versions are blocky and ugly - this is what building mesh models is. It's ugly, but raw and I love it.
Slowly adding detail, I flipped the legacy body on and off to check I was following the body dimensions and curvature and also refined the cut of the garment. I didn't have a plan for this, it was purely seeing what looked good and working from there.
You'll notice on the 8th picture I switched to a smooth display - this gives me an idea of how things are looking once I do some subdivision. I refined the topography here as the topography defines how the mesh will deform, flow and ultimately move once you rig it. Topography is an organic thing, once you get into that headspace, it flows.
Once I was happy with the shape and fit of the garment, I subdivided to give me more detail to work with when adding the piping details around the edges of the garment. Once this was done, I unfolded the UVs and did some manual refinement so that textures applied would be even and logical.
And that's it for this part of the model! roughly 70 incremental filesaves over the space of about 10 hours to get to this stage. I've taken random snaps along the way so's not to bore you too much :)
Next, into Substance Painter to do texture work, stitching, seams, design prints and all that nice stuff. Once I'm happy with the textures, I'll go back into Maya and optimise the mesh - it's far too detailed and there is a lot of scope for face reduction. Then rigging and in-world testing after that!
See you in the next update!
This is a sturdy wooden tool box that comes with a set of brightly colored toy tools inside. A hand painted design and name makes it a great customized gift for any little carpenter. (Personalization may look different from text sample in picture.) On sale through 8/31/09 for just $18!
In the stained glass workshop area, to the back of the workshop the work surfaces were covered with so many things. The current owner, Mr. Gilley, pulled out a drawer and showed us some of the cracked and broken pieces of glass artwork that Agnew recreated/repainted/restored.
These tiny tools were part of his toolset for his glasswork, they look to me like jeweler's tools.
The glass marbles in tiny glass jars are a repeating motif throughout the workshop.
Agnew Myers was an architect and stained glass artist/restoration specialist who owned the H.E. Wyatt Building in Menlo, GA.
24x24 Area for Phlogiston sector. Nebula created via Yatt colormap (and GIS) on level ground with standard VFXs for added effect
De kunstwereld maakt op dit moment een turbulente, maar ook zeer interessante ontwikkeling door. Met de nieuwe toolset die Artificial Intelligence ons biedt, betreedt een nieuw type maker de kunstwereld.
Voor de huidige kunstmarkt voelt dat mogelijk als concurrentie en het roept ethische vragen op. Maar de vernieuwingen op gebied van generatieve AI, NFT's en blockchain bieden ook veel nieuwe maakkansen en verdienmogelijkheden.
Op donderdagavond 24 november boden verschillende sprekers perspectieven op de kunstmarkt van morgen. Zij deelden de laatste ontwikkelingen rondom digitale maak- en verdienstrategieën.
Met Marissa Memelink (SETUP Utrecht), Stephan Duquesnoy (Bloom), Gustaaf Dekking (voormalig galeriehouder en oprichter van Artifund) en Tom van de Wetering (HKU X).