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Four short links: 27 November 2009
3D Models from Webcams, a Javascript Scheme, EMACS in Your Browser, and CS History
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 2
- ProFORMA -- software which builds a 3D model as you rotate an object in front of your webcam. Check out the video below. (via Wired)
- BiwaScheme -- a Scheme interpreter written in Javascript. (via Hacker News)
- YMacs -- in-browser EMACS written in Javascript. Emacs, for those of you who were left in any doubt, is the only editor ever created by software engineers worth a damn (where "worth a damn" == "has possibly already achieved sentience") with the possible exception of teco.
- Historic Documents in Computer Science -- my eye was caught by John Backus's first FORTRAN manual, Niklaus Wirth's original Pascal paper, the BCPL reference manual (the C programming language got its name from the C in BCPL), and Eckert and Mauchly's ENIAC patent. (via Hacker News)
tags: 3d, augmented reality, computer science, computer vision, history, javascript, programming, web
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Wow. Text Editor and COrrector. I thought time had completely passed me by. Used to use that on RSX-11M+ in the old, old days doing plots and data massaging at the Large Lakes Research Station.
Hmmm. FORTRAN, RSX-11... A man's language on a real man's machine! Life was good then.
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Ajeet [2009-11-27 05:49 AM]
Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition is an interesting application. I want to see it out of the Cambridge University Engineering department and available as a free web-communication tool on GTalk :)