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Moonrise at Mono Lake, California. I arrived at my target site on Mono Lake with minutes to spare. My DeLorme PN-20 GPS has a Sun/Moon feature that confirmed the moon rise time, but it also shows a compass with the Sun and moon on it, so I could point the sun symbol towards the setting sun and there was an arrow pointing to the approximate place on the horizon where the moon would come up. I walked a couple of hundred yards until I could line that forecasted rise spot up with the tufa limestone structures that I wanted to shoot. By the way, you can get a Java program for cell phones that support Java that will do the same thing (most phones know your approximate location info from the position of local cell towers, some provide location based services using a GPS signal).

The moon started to peek out over the hills right on time, and I adjusted my tripod position maybe 6-12 feet to place the moon where I wanted it in the scene. I started with a 70-200mm lense and gradually worked my way up to a wide angle lens as the sunset darkened and spread across the sky.

I often bracket different development settings and tools to use on early edits during postprocessing so I can close in on the best settings and techniques for a given site and lighting conditions.

For this result I left the white balance "as shot", but I think the camera saw the scene differently and the actual event was a bit less blue (at least to my mind's perception... there's truly no such thing as "reality" when it comes to white balance and color perception). The light does of course shift more towards blue as sunsets progress, so it could well be my perception or my memory that varies from the event. The people who claim to produce an accurate copy of a given moment crack me up. Accurate to an electronic device, to one person, or to which people, and under which ambient lighting conditions? I don't believe that there is any consistency in color perception from person to person (let alone from the original event to viewing a representation of it under different lighting conditions). The whole claim is a farce. Must I "go with the flow" and pretend, or is it safe to observe that the "just as it happened" emperor truly has no clothes?

You can look up times for your next full moon rise (at sunset) and set (at dawn). On June 26, 2010 in Western states we you have the bonus of a penumbral lunar eclipse as the full moon sets to the west just before sunrise. The details and links to moon time calculation resources are provided here:

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Stitched together from 4 photos with a Java program I wrote in university.

The picture was taken by my step-son, David. David left with Jake 3 days ago for N.C. so Jake could celebrate his oldest sister's 102nd birthday. I'm home taking care of the dogs...ugh! We need to find a dog sitter so I can go on a vacation too. Jake will be back the beginning of ths coming week. I'm lonely, but I'm finally getting the house clean.

In the meantime, I've been unable to get on Flickr because there's a problem with my Java program. But thanks to Dona Site, I was able to sign in through Facebook today. Thank you, Donna!

Late note: Well, even though I've been able to sign into Flickr through Facebook, my computer is slower than molassas in a blizzard. I'll do what I can to catch up on some comments, but I won't be back in full force until I get this thing fixed--which will hopefully be by next week.

Paper, pencil and wooden letters. These can be tools for computer programming. I wanted to think through a couple of algorithms for a program that would put words into an alphabetically ordered list, so I went back to the ideas that I'd been using to figure out levels for Light-Bot, and put tokens on graph paper, and wrote down the instructions, step-by-step.

I have spaces on the large grid paper for recording loop index numbers, and I move tiles around to simulate the reading and storing of string variables.

I didn't set out to solve this exercise the same way I did Light-Bot levels, but when I realized what I was doing, I found the wooden disc that I had once used to set lightbot's location and orientation, and included it.

Test shot with the Fujifilm GFX 100S camera. The GFX 100S is a game changer and sets a new standard with its modest US$6000 price. That is 40% below Fuji's own GFX 100, and 70% less than the 60 MP Leica S3. At the same time, it is a mirrorless camera with all the advantages mirrorless brings, such as compactness, PDAF points, accurate autofocusing, focus tracking, relatively compact lenses, exceptional live view, etc.

The Fuji GF lenses are also very reasonably priced compared to the Leica S, Hasselblad X1D or even some Sony and Canon 35mm lenses. From what I have seen so far, the Fuji GF lenses are up to the challenge of a 100 MP sensor, and deliver exceptional image quality with the ease of use of a 35mm mirrorless camera.

The image stabilization in the GFX 100S is amazingly good - I have taken shots at shutter speeds as low as 1/10 s, and I can't believe what I am seeing. The colors and dynamic range right out of the camera are very impressive. The camera also has a number of film simulation modes which are enjoyable to use, while still retaining the pure RAW version of the captured image.

The only negative with the GFX 100S is, its firmware and user interface is the worst I have seen in any camera. The body and the controls are built so when you hold it in your hand, it is not the most ergonomically comfortable feeling. It feels like you are wearing your left shoe on your right foot – it feels like a shoe, but it feels uncomfortable and applies pressure at all the wrong places.

The menu system is hideous – it looks like the result of a JAVA programming project by a half a dozen high school kids with zero understanding of photography. These are the early growing pains for this camera, and once you understand these and work around them, the camera delivers very pleasing images for a very modest cost (relatively speaking). So IMO, it is worth breaking the piggy bank for the Fuji GFX system, if the budget is within reach.

This is one of many test shots I am uploading to Flickr. These have very little editing done to them, so for the most part, they are SOOC, just exported as JPEG. I have cropped many of the images for better composition or because I had the wrong lens for a specific scene, but apart from that, I have uploaded the full resolution images with no scaling down, in case anyone wants to download the images and see them at actual pixels.

"You know, I became a Java programming expert at the age of kittenhood"

Java programming language is sought by programmers all over the world because of its unique qualities of platform independence, fast development time, and object oriented approach among others .

Problem: you borrow someone's PC, but suddenly the screen is locked when you return from ... wherever.

Solution: A Java program that runs the vibrator in the mobile phone every 5 minutes. Just place the mouse on the phone, and the PC will never lock you out again!

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Clearly I've gone a bit OC on this maze stuff and am just going to go with it and write programs until it's out of my system.

I've upgraded to java code writing out mazes as image files instead of a little perl script writing hash marks to the console. It's fairly fast, though I haven't done anything to optimize for speed (in fact it's naively / clumsily written) - it generated a 500x500 cell maze in about 40 seconds, most of which was occupied with drawing the image and compressing it to a .png file, and that's on my poky little netbook. The maze pictured here is 87x67 cells and took about 11 seconds to generate and write to .png.

The guts of it are also generalized so that it should be easy to make differently shaped mazes, like circular or triangular or hexagonal. So watch this space for even more of this.

Investigating different Anti-Alias settings in SunFlow. Be sure to compare the output at original resolution.

I previously tried out the Ward-shaders in SunFlow - which turned out to be slow - taking several hours for a single image.

These images are rendered using the 'diffuse' shader, and various AA settings. As can be seen they are much faster.

I also tried out a version of SunFlow compiled using the Java Native Jet compiler - something which in principle could make Java programs run faster, since they are compiled into native code, instead of being interpreted/JIT-compiled. The version I used was compiled by PolyQuark and can be downloaded here: www.polyquark.com/opensource/.

As can be seen from the table, it actually performed worse than the standard version (~40% slower). The image output was exactly the same as for the standard version (as expected). Notice that the native compiled version was 0.07.3, whereas the standard version of SunFlow is 0.07.2. I don't know why it turned out slower - I just tried it out without changing anything.

Rendering time:

AA Time Relative speed

(-2,0) 0:34 1

(0,0) 0:47 1.38

(0,1) 1:54 3.35

(1,1) 2:48 4.94

(1,2) 6:44 11.88

(1,2) 9:25 16.61 (NATIVE)

(2,2) 11:19 19.97

Time in minutes. Rendering was done on a Dell Vostro Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 at 2.10 GHz).

Some scene details:

Pinhole camera, two meshlights, a single diffuse shader for all objects, 498x450 pixel output, and otherwise default settings: "accel bih, filter mitchell, bucket 32 row"

My conclusion: AA=(1,2) is very pretty - no need to go higher. For quick previews (-2,0) seems like a good choice, rendering at 1/12 of the time.

Nilton Ramos Quoirin invited me to upload a self-portrait and present 16 random things about myself. Here we go:

1. I'm born and raised in Sweden, but I love to travel.

2. I'm a typical on/off-person. Either I do something, or I don't.

3. I never listen to music at home, but I listen to speed metal at work.

4. I'm a software developer and fell in love with programming when I was 12.

5. I'm frequently answering questions in a Java programming forum.

6. I love spending time alone doing nothing except for thinking.

7. My favority hobby used to be disc golf.

8. I love going to the gym and workout.

9. I don't know what fever feels like.

10. I hate being photographed (that's why my portrait is in B&W).

11. I love to learn new things.

12. I'm always on time.

13. I hate to wait.

14. I'm left handed.

15. I love the winter.. if it gets cold and we get snow :)

16. I love shopping jeans and t-shirts!

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A zippy Lego robot speeds along the floor, spurred on by my Java code. As part of "Intersession," I'm helping out in a two-week robotics intensive: the students are building Lego robots and programming them in Java to compete in a "Mine Sweeper" competition next Wednesday.

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Latest for the maze program I've been writing.

Here's a video of how the multiple-agent maze carving works! Agents' paths disappear when the agent has no way of making any more moves.

Test to see if 640x480 resolution is appropriate. And so it seems to be!

Created by having the maze program write its state out to an image every step along the way, to sequentially-numbered filenames e.g. maze00000.png, maze00001.png, etc. then importing into VirtualDub which is free and does a nice job turning sequences of images into videos, among other things. Windows only, though, sadly.

3d fractal created with java program what I wrote

DSC_6664: Time to invoke Java garbage collection by the look of things!

The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in the house. We gather there.

Five years ago we started revamping it. We started by ripping out the funky tiles on the floor, relocating the base from one of the counters (after we tossed the yellowing formica) and installing a big butcherblock island. We moved to stove to the alley wall so we could vent it and designed a tile backsplash. I made many of the tiles. I laid a lot of the oak floor. We stripped and stained moulding for around the windows and doors. It's still somewhat of a work in progress but we think it's working out nicely.

I'm usually on the stove side of the island chopping and cooking while, on the other side, my son William does java programming, listens to Mythbusters proving that you can knock your socks off and plays his current fav computer game while my husband Elliot, on his laptop, pours over a recently scanned Sanskrit text on a palm leaf manuscript. I've got headphones on and am repeating my current Say Something in Welsh exercise. Meanwhile, Georgia the Poodle is scratching around my feet waiting for something to drop from the cutting board.

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venue: Jasper Hotel, Melbourne

Nienke was on a conference of the Dutch User Group of the Java programming language. She was taking photos of people and had a small printer with her that printed the photos instantly, on magnets for the fridge. She was a bit shy at first and I think she distrusted my intentions a little.

Well, here you are! I must say I was not too proud of this photo, as it was a bit out of focus (by camera movement) and a bit too warm colourwise. Not to blame the model at all!

Thanks for posing, Nienke, and helping me to overcome trouble approaching people for a portrait!

Hope you like it.

This picture is #17 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

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The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in the house. We gather there.

Five years ago we started revamping it. We started by ripping out the funky tiles on the floor, relocating the base from one of the counters (after we tossed the yellowing formica) and installing a big butcherblock island. We moved to stove to the alley wall so we could vent it and designed a tile backsplash. I made many of the tiles. I laid a lot of the oak floor. We stripped and stained moulding for around the windows and doors. It's still somewhat of a work in progress but we think it's working out nicely.

I'm usually on the stove side of the island chopping and cooking while, on the other side, my son William does java programming, listens to Mythbusters proving that you can knock your socks off and plays his current fav computer game while my husband Elliot, on his laptop, pours over a recently scanned S text on a palm leaf manuscript. I've got headphones on and am repeating my current Say Something in Welsh exercise. Meanwhile, Georgia the Poodle is scratching around my feet waiting for something to drop from the cutting board.

Mobile Trail Explorer running on my SE W810i phone, connected via bluetooth to the Wintec WBT-201 G-Rays2 GPS receiver. The WBT-201 actually has built-in memory to record track data, but the Java program on the phone has a nicer interface. Took a picture of the GPS readout to help synchronize the clocks between the GPS and the camera.

Directly download the tracks from the phone via Bluetooth file transfer, or grab it from the WBT using HoudahGPS. Put the GPS data into the photos with GPS Photo Linker.

Thankfully the new iPhoto 7.0 in iLife '08 finally fixed GPS data handling so editing the photo won't screw up the coordinates in the edited file.

I'm implementing something a lot like the Processing serial API in ruby. Here's an example of some Ruby code reading the sensors off of the Arduino-based hardware setup from the Monski Pong project from Tom Igoe's Making Things Talk.

BHCSI is a 3 week computer science summer camp at UCF for high school students.

Master Shake giving a presentation on Java programming.

A while back, I decided to take the dive and try to learn a programming language. I wasn't sure which one would be best for someone who was something of a beginner, and with a rather sketchy idea of what I hoped to be able to do with it. I chose Java because I found some good resources, the Stanford CS106a intro to computer science class, with all video lectures on youtube, free eclipse coding editor/compiler, class handouts, example programs, solutions to all exercises, textbooks in pdf format. And a very well-written textbook too, "The Art and Science of Java" by Eric S. Roberts.

After a few chapters , I decided that I could forget the lectures, and just study from the book. The programming exercises at the end of each chapter are actually more demanding than the assignments actually given in the class anyway, and as entertaining as the professor is, his humorous delivery doesn't always help the relevant programming concepts come through clearly.

But I have had a very eventful year, and mostly because of pressures in my life I've stalled about halfway through the book.

In my reading about learning to program I began to see more advice to novices learning to program and trying to choose a language. And for many reasons I've come to think that python might be better as an introductory language. Some of these reasons are : 1. it is very popular today, and tutorials are offered on it through many educational websites such as Khanacademy and codeacademy. 2. its syntax is simpler, it requires less typing and fewer special concepts to understand before you can begin. Such as, in Java all variables must have their type declared when they are first used, additionally variables, classes, methods and functions all need an explicit privacy setting applied when they are created, this is hard to understand for someone who is already straining to understand what classes, methods, functions and such mean in the first place. 3. Java is a compiled language, and commands from it cannot be tried interactively in isolation at a command prompt. This means that there is always a delay between what you write and the result it produces. It also means that it can be hard to test parts of a program in isolation to see what works and what doesn't. This is kind of a big deal for me, because when I first used a computer, as a child of about 8, in the mid-1980s, I was familiar with the command prompt, and the fact that I could type expressions and get results as soon as they were entered, so programming could be learned by playing. Shortly after the Commodore was stolen from my dad's place in the late 80s, I ceased coming into contact with any computers, which had an interpreter-based operating system. The perception was that you would buy a computer to run programs instead of to write them. That you would buy programs to run on your computer, rather than build your own programs yourself. This view was enforced by computers coming with a DOS operating system, which would let you load programs, copy data, examine directories, but which didn't directly facilitate you writing programs of your own. When, in the early 90s, Windows became popular, my attention shifted from writing programs, to the things that could be done with programs. Playing games, making art, downloading documents and communicating with people. In the windows era, you had much greater potential to use your computer to write articles, do complex calculations with little setup time, play fast, beautiful, immersive games, play music or create stunning graphics. But you had to already have the programs someone else had written, in order to do these things. You used the operating system of the computer to open them, and to switch between them conveniently, but not to create. Not to make the machine do what you wanted. In windows, you can have your math expressions evaluated in the calculator, or in a spreadsheet, but you are shielded from touching the power of computing itself.

Moving from Java to Python is easier than I expected. The difference is much less than between BASIC and Java. Functions and function calls make sense, instructions to import make sense, variables being local to a function make sense. There are similar data types, many keywords are the same between the languages, (and there aren't that many keywords, about 30. more or less, in each language, and most of them are probably common to both, and probably also common to several other computer languages)

In the picture, the program on the left is notepad++ with a python program written in it. In the Stanford Eclipse editor on the right we see hilighted, the same program written in Java. This was an early Java programming exercise from the textbook, "The Art and Science of Java" and I just translated it, into equivalent Python code.

The Python is more compact, and largely because it relies on the indentation which is a strongly suggested style in Java, to do the same job as the opening and closing curly braces which, in Java are mandatory.

Also noticeable are the shorter and simpler lines for method definitions and for loops. and in Java, the boolean test conditions are enclosed within parentheses that Python simply does without. The for loop in Python also has several other goodies, like an index variable, not declared or explicitly initialized, the powerful Python keyword, "in" and the very useful function or method, range()

In spite of my interest in Python, I am not eager to give-up on Java yet. But I can foresee Python as my default language for quick computer experimentation.

Nothing all that new, just made it so you could stack up animations of the maze being made and solved and fancied it up a pinch.

In my java programming class, we had to make a program which would make a stickman (with a face!).

This was my effort :D

I took this picture of a bunch of coffee beans for the layout of my internship site. I wanted something that has to do with the Java programming language and was thinking of something with cups of coffee first, but since I didn't find the right cups, I chose these beans instead. Now, I have to work it out into a layout.

Further adventures of the Maze Thing.

Animated solution discovery going from the starting point (red dot) in the upper left, ending (green dot) in the lower right. The search strategy is a depth-first search, which isn't very smart - as you can see! It does manage to avoid a few wrong turns, but only by luck; depth-first search isn't very purposeful.

Simply put, what it does is to keep moving along until it either hits a dead end or the exit.

If it hits the exit, it's done!

If it hits a dead end, it backtracks to the most recent point at which it could have gone a different direction, and tries a different direction, and goes on with the same strategy.

The property of following a single path along until it can't anymore is where the term 'depth first" comes from - its first priority is to go as "deep" as it can into the problem.

The choice of directions at every move isn't random, the way I wrote this solver, but it might as well be - there's no motivation for any of its choices, they're just explored in the order they were discovered.

There are more goal-directed ways of searching things like mazes, but I don't think I'll bother writing any of them - unless I do, in which case I will. If you could but dig it.

Wrote a little java program to use Launchpad to sequence anything midi. In this video I'm running Propellerhead Reason/Record Subtractor. It creates a midi device, so you can sequence anything that takes midi

I seem to have hit a creative block.

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Nearly complete, my modified robot stands at the ready. Today, I programmed it to naviagate the arena and added its namesake apendages to "disarm" the "mines."

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Amended my maze program so that it could have multiple "carving agents", as I call them - it can now dig any number of tunnels at once. Here we see the green path starting in the center, then budding off the red path, which goes on its own way all about, and so on. This is a more correct implementation of the "branchiness" concept the brother asked about some days back.

The path colors get reused so there are multiple unrelated green paths, and so on. The paths may also double back on themselves and stuff so be oddly constructed, but you get the idea.

This should make it so that the mazes aren't quite so single-path-with-short-little-dead-endsy. But I still haven't put in a start and end spot, damme.