Author: Prashanth Udupa

aKademy 2008

aKademy 2008 is going to be from 9 to 16 of August (2008 ofcourse). I really hope to make it this time. Keep tracking http://akademy.kde.org/ Powered by ScribeFire.

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VTK Designer + DICOM

I am still not able to do good enough ray casting in VTK Designer 2, but the contouring mechanism is quite good. Powered by ScribeFire.

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DICOM File Loader is back now..

Quite some time ago, I had blogged about VTK Designer 1.0.5 supporting DICOM image loading. Since we have DFLs in VTK Designer 2 also, I dicided to write some code to support the same thing in vtkd2 as well. And…

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Top 10 startups of 2007

Some really interesting ideas in here… http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups Powered by ScribeFire.

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Because it can be done :)

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Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors

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Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

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Sinc Function

Visualized this function in VTK Designer var r = sqrt( x*x + y*y ); var z  = sin( PI*r ) / PI*r; Download the VTK Designer Project file for this from here. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Nice to know…

Its always nice to know when someone calls your work cool 🙂 Read more here. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Phonon in VTK Designer 2

This afternoon I began integrating Phonon into VTK Designer 2. The start has been good; but I am really aiming for something cool. I hope I can do what I have set out to do. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Compiling and Using Phonon on Linux

Phonon is a neat framework for multimedia applications on Linux. To top that; it is written using Qt. Like Marble; it does not need KDE to work. Recently Trolltech announced Phonon backends for Linux, Windows and Mac; which means that…

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Something for Women on IRC

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Vilayanur Ramachandran: Brain expert

This will really interest you. http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/164 Powered by ScribeFire.

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FOSS.IN 2007…..

FOSS.IN is always a fun event. This year it was no different; although I am beginning to feel that even this year the talks were mostly “intro-type” in nature. The good thing about FOSS.IN however is that one gets to…

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VTK Designer has been nominated for FOSS India Awards

Our VTK Designer project has been nominated for FOSS India Awards 2008. Please cast your vote for our software so that we can win it ;). http://www.openitis.com/openitis/project_view.php?id=113PS: For people who are wondering who nominated it and why… I got an…

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