Daniel’s Blog


Active Contour (Snake) with OpenCV

Posted in Academy Showcase | by Daniel on the August 6th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago we had to develop a small computer vision program. The main task was to introduce ourself to OpenCV. The second goal was to implent the A* search algorithm which should search for an inital contour. In the last step the snake algorithm should track the objects contour while the object moves around.

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Doing your own Google Chart API in Python

Posted in Software Development | by Daniel on the July 31st, 2008

Last week I saw a typical software as a service charting solution by a small company … yes they already have a good search engine, too. ;) The charts aren’t much impressing to me, but the combination of charting and SaaS was really intresting. So I get catched from the thought to make my own charting SaaS solution. (more…)

Simple notification plugin for XChat

Posted in Usefull | by Daniel on the March 19th, 2007

Uses libnotify and its command line tool notify-send.

The plugin in action!

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Spieleentwicklung mit Java?

Posted in Software Development | by Daniel on the February 23rd, 2007

Particle Engine Demo

Ich war erstaunt als ich beim Surfen im Netz über JOGL und LWGL gestolpert bin. Im ersten Moment konnte ich nicht glauben, dass das Java ist was dort schnell umher flirrend Partikel über meinen Bildschirm scheuchte. Aber es ist in der Tat ein Java Webstart Game mit einem OpenGL-Backend.