Travel Budget: Smart Tourism and IA
Jan 10
ShareSmart tourism is a great activity. It takes some effort and time, but with a tight budget you really can have great vacations and travel lots of cool places. I’ve been lucky to do this practice for some time now. This implies not only to read a lot of information about the place I’m visiting, search a lot of hotel deals and reviews, but essentially, combining low cost and...
SVG + Semantics = Awesome (Ground Operations Use Case)
Oct 06ShareFor the last months, we have been working a software to park aircraft and manage ground operations on airport facilities. First of all, here is a demo: This new complex application was built upon our recent actionscript 3 SVG framework. Initially, this framework allowed to render a big scope of SVG, an easy extend to create innovative drawing and editing tools (like expectation list, shape...
Flash Face Recogniton Drawer or DIY Flash Mask
Apr 15
ShareRecently I saw some posts about the port of OpenCV’s face recognition to Adobe Actionscript. That’s great news and one guy even did some enhancements. So, after I came across with this demo, where you get the choose a pair of glasses and they “stick” to you face, I thought that what would be cool was if you could draw the glasses or for that propose, any other thing. We have...
Recco: Online Comics Retrieval and Creation
Feb 26ShareRecco is the abbreviation of Ricardo Lopes‘s Master Thesis. Over the last year and half he has worked hard on his thesis to create something cool and innovative. And he aced it with a grade of 19 from 20! His thesis was about creating comics and using sketch retrieval techniques to reuse elements. On user tests we were able to prove the technology and the results were very...
Obama Inauguration | Space and Time
Jan 23ShareObama election and consequent take over as President of the US are among the top historic moments of the young century and certainly the biggest of 2009 – hope it is only surpass by something even greater, not crises or war, or both -. So, his inauguration was a key point and something to remember for a long long long time. It made Internet streaming records, mass live viewing on whole...
ActionScript Flickr API + Geo information
Jan 12ShareMany of you – at least if you have been hacking with Flex or Actionscript – have came across AS3FlickrLib. This is a really nice library to use flickr in your ActionScript projects. The project seem to have stopped at version 0.87 and this version still don’t handle Geo positioning and info. If you are in to create a mash up between Google Maps and Flickr, Geo info is...