halcy.de v4 » Version four-point-oh and counting.Two weeks!

So I got a 3DS, and after noticing that it uses an open format (“mpo”) for storing 3D photographs, I needed to play with that, of course.

As a result, I now have a version of my simple raytracer that can render a left and right image, which can then be combined into one stereoscopic 3D image for viewing on the 3DS with software such as this (It runs under wine).

I’ve rendered two small scenes, a 4D julia set and a trefoil knot of spheres! They look kind of neat, so if you have a 3DS, put them on your SD card in the picture folder and have a look!

(If you don’t have a 3DS, you can still look at them as if they were normal jpeg images, because they really are jpegs with some added exif data)

• Image 1 - Julia Set
• Image 2 - Trefoil knot
• Raytracer
• Program for converting left/right images into mpo files
• Bonus: WAHa_06x36 took pictures of his bismuth crystal, which I cropped and converted! They look neat, also!

P.S.: My friend code is 0473-7758-5435~ feel free to add me~

A friend recently had a problem with a cameras flash card that had become unreadable after he pulled it out of his computer without unmounting properly first - the FAT file system had become corrupted and his images had become unreadable.

Luckily, he found saveimg, a tool to restore pictures from broken FAT file systems. Annoyingly, this tool only deals with JPG files, and his camera is a NIKON cam that takes picture in Nikon RAW (NEF) format.

I modified the tool to deal with those, in addition to dealing with JPG files, just like the original. Usage is the same as the original saveimg, read up on how to use it there.

• Source code
• Linux binary
• OS X binary
• How to use

Yay, a two friends of mine and me got to see the Polysics in London at KCLSU. London is a nice city, and concerning the concert: Small venue, awesome show, neck is still hurting now, two days later, from all the jumping around. Here’s some pics from the show (One of which has DUCK TAPE):

More of these can be found in the gallery under Gallery > Actual Photos > London and Polysics.

And a video of the performance, shot by a friend of mine:

Another one from a little farther away, with far better sound quality (Shot by someone else):

Lastly, this is the best picture of the Tower Bridge.

That is all.

So I am moving to Karlsruhe soon, to be closer to the University I’m going to be attending. Was there today to rent a room, and made a few photos. Those, plus some earlier ones from the Karlsruhe open museum night can be found on flickr. (Lol shitty quality, cellphone cam) Example image and video of a tesla coil seen there below.

It has AA characters on it! (Also, I run KDE, despite this being an Ubuntu sticker. I didn’t have a Kubuntu one. Meh.)

I had the time to snap a few pictures in my uncles mill today. They will be used on the mills new homepage. Here they are, with descriptions to the best of my knowledge. There’s a new part where actual milling is happening, and an old part that is only used for storage nowadays, but still has some neat old stuff in it.

Flickr photoset: A mill

I’m only now getting around to posting this: