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Android Application: Nightlife

Marcus — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:48:39 +0000

I’m currently developing an Android application as a part of my 6th (and final) semester of the Medialogy bachelor. The application tries to recommend bars (and other nightlife venues) based on the user’s friends who are currently logged in at (…)

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My 5th Semester Paper

Marcus — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:20:15 +0000

As you might’ve noticed I have updated the design of the blog pretty heavily. I don’t think I’ve ever been so satisfied with the look of the site before, so to celebrate it I thought I’d post a small entry (…)

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iPhone Application: Copenhagen Mirror

Marcus — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:21:52 +0000

I’m now on the 5th semester of Medialogy, and we’re currently developing an iPhone application. The application lets the user use the iPhone as a camera that looks back in time, i.e. if you’re standing at Christiansborg in Copenhagen and (…)

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My First 3D Models

Marcus — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:13:44 +0000

I just started on the 5th semester of Medialogy which focuses a lot on 3D-modeling in Maya, and I’d like to show you my first 3D models! Our assignment was to make a town square with a statue or a (…)

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Tutorial: Mesh Render in Maya

Marcus — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:34:33 +0000

This is a write-up of this video, mostly so I don’t have to watch the video every time I want to mesh render something. Go to “Windows” -> “Rendering Editors” -> “Hypershade”. Create a new Lambert shader, and open its (…)

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Right Vision: Utilizing Optical Flow to Prevent Right Turn Accidents

Marcus — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:47:32 +0000

Oh boy, this is going to get geeky. Today, me and my group finished our 3rd semester project after three months of very hard work. The semester theme was Human Senses – Digital Perception, and was mainly focused on using (…)

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Aesthetics & Design Portfolio

Marcus — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:54:13 +0000

I just finished an introductory course to aesthetics and design, and the final assignment was to create a portfolio with all the exercises we completed during the course. Now, this was my first real experience with graphic design, and my (…)

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Image Processing and Motion Tracking

Marcus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:47:44 +0000

One month into the 3rd semester, and I finally feel like I’m learning something useful. We’ve had a lot of programming classes, focusing on C++ and OpenCV, a computer vision library focusing on real-time image processing. The point of all (…)

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Focusing and Freelancing

Marcus — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:51:42 +0000

I’m going to a focus group at Danish video game company IO Interactive, this wednesday. My friend Simon works there, as a game tester, and he forwarded a mail about it. It’s gonna take 2-3 hours, and I think it’ll (…)

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VIS.MED.FILM!

Marcus — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:44:23 +0000

Since the end of September I’ve been working on the 1st Semester project at my study, Medialogy. These projects center around an overall theme, e.g. “Visual Effects”, and each group must find a problem related to this theme, analyze it (…)

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