Of the many uses for singular value decomposition, one that I found to be most interesting was face recognition. Efficient and accurate facial recognition has been a problem for computer scientists and the like for many years. Because faces can take on completely different looks under different lighting or angles there is great difficulty in […]

One of the biggest frustrations I have with tech blogs are the fake products that are too good to be true. Feeds are constantly riddled with fake product hacks that are mocked up or modified by photoshop experts. See mini-iPhone.
To the human eye, it is very difficult to determine whether or not an image is […]

One of the more graphically interesting applications of interpolation I’ve found is spatial interpolation of topological models: gathering data from a number of different points over a region and interpolating a surface that intersect each point.

Many examples of spatial interpolation images can best be viewed right here at Cornell. The CAVE, a three-wall virtual reality […]