Category Archives: Spring 2012

Making Pop Up Books – 簡潔なバブル経済学

簡潔なバブル経済学 (A Brief Lesson in Bubble Economics) I began this book by looking at the bellows of my old Polaroid Land Camera. I thought it might be fun to try to take that accordion mechanism and incorporate it into a … Continue reading

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Thesis – Week 05 (progress?)

The Algorithmic Display of Ranked Information I’m a believer in the strategy: When faced with obstacles, switch to something else… More often than not a seemingly unrelated perspective offers an unseen inroad. I had been struggling to understand how an unsupervised or … Continue reading

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Thesis – Week 03 (progress)

Using OpenCV to detect and extract faces My thesis will be utilizing different tools to sort and filter images. Among them, face detection and face recognition. OpenCV has a robust set of  optimizations for face and facial feature detection based on the … Continue reading

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Making Pop Up Books – Modular Systems

Experimenting with Modular Systems: “Loops” I wanted to begin thinking about collapsible modular building systems. —Not really a pop up book by definition, but I have been interested in books that can be modified by the user / reader. Using … Continue reading

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Making Pop Up Books – 2 to 3 Page Book

Sublinear As my first pop-up book I began by experimenting with V-folds, understanding the maximum achievable height for tower-like structures. I soon realized that 4 equally spaced towers were the outer edges of what could be a solid but collapsible … Continue reading

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