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topum ([personal profile] topum) wrote2016-03-18 08:19 pm
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Fashion police

Apparently co-ordinating accessories is a minefield. There is a thin line between a hot new trend and a fashion faux pas. Bags, shoes and belts have been discussed excessively.
But should your hat match your walking stick?

In Istanbul

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it's mostly matrix manipulation. You'd do all the assignments in software and then just do it all as x,y,z coordinates. But actually making the graphics... it's just a zowie amount of work.

I had another neat idea about an addressable led string. They have these: long string of them, on a single wire, and you can turn off individual ones through a serial bus running down the power line. So, get a nice long string, loop it over your christmas tree just like any other string of lights, set up a webcam, and start blinking individual ones so you know where they all are in three-dimensional space, by moving the webcam around. Then you can blink them all on and off in a nice pretty random-seeming pattern, and at exactly one point in space they will spell out a rude word to an observer.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
This is awesome! Now I want to research all kind of weird stuff one can do with LEDs and wait for my LEDs to come. By the time they will, I will definitely be on something else (or in Akureyri) but anyway.