Confessions of a researchaholic

2023-08-20

San Luis Rey mission

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:14 pm
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Drew after this photo by Henry P. Schmidt which I found mesmerizing and very different from other photos of the same mission I found online.

Ladybugs

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 3:33 pm
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Saw https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/printing-protest and immediately visualized the ladybugs moving in my mind.
I extracted the foreground (ladies and bamboo sticks) and several individual ladybugs via https://segment-anything.com/ to, and animated them via Adobe Fresco Motion.

2023-08-16

Water lavender

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:22 pm
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I am starting to experiment with https://feather.art/ which is an app (based on https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530092) for painting in 3D via a 2D interface by specifying the support surfaces first followed by projecting the (screen) strokes onto them.
It took some time to get used to the workflow, but I like it so far.

2023-08-05

Mapping a dog’s mind

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:32 pm
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Sitting a dog named Chewie, whose mind I tried to map as the following state machine:

Follow me around within 3 feel and eye sight.

Rest over a soft surface whenever possible (especially his beds which I can put where I want him to be).

Eat and drink when inside.

Pee and poop when outside.

Sleep, other than the above.

2023-08-02

Obituary for DLXXK17WK7M9

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:09 pm
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iPad Pro 12.9-in 64-GB
Enrolled 10/26/2021
Last seen 6/22/2023
Served in Fresco motion and live brushes

Succeeded by W99KG6V2KQ
iPad Pro 11-in 128-GB
Enrolled 7/27/2023

2023-07-31

Why and how

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:35 am
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Saw these two cars damaged and piled together inside a cordoned parking area, and wondered how they ended up in such a configuration and why.

2023-07-29

Confidential shredding

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:50 am
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The other day while sliding a document into a confidential shredding slot in the office, a thought came to my mind that a shredding bin might be the most likely place that people want to peek into.

https://youtube.com/shorts/65BX9sfSfy

2023-07-19

Everyone has talent at 25, the difficulty is to have it at 50

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:09 pm
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I am not sure about the first part, but I do agree with the second part.

2023-07-17

Faces in the waiting area

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 7:44 am
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The blood test center is full of people born in the 1930s during an early Monday morning (which I try to avoid except for fasting). I wonder if it would be full of vampires at night.

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