I remember when we got our first printer. Mu sister and I were each going to be allowed to make something in MS paint and print it out. My sister made some sort of underwater scene with a bunch of fishes and a blue water background and printed it out. Once my parents saw how much ink it used they decided that they were not going to let me print out my drawing.<\/p>\n
The first digital camera my family had must have been in early 2000 or so? I remember we got it when I was in boy scouts because I had asked the scoutmaster about what someone needed to look for when we were working on the troop website. He told me that a VGA resolution camera was fine as long as you weren’t planing to use it for a wallpaper or anything. At the time I didn’t know that VGA meant 480×640 (I think that is right) and I thought he was talking about house wallpaper. At the time, the standard screen resolution was 1024×800 I think, so it is clear in retrospect that he was talking about a desktop background.<\/p>\n
The camera would also work as a webcam and it came with a number of interesting utilities, such as a game that used motion detection to have you hit a beach ball around the screen. I found it funny when years later the PlayStation eye came out and offered similar features in their amazing cutting edge device, but I digress. This is what really started my interest in digital photography and, to an extent machine vision.<\/p>\n
We somehow ended up getting Corel paint shop pro, I think it may have been free after rebate at Compusa or something like that, and I made gratuitous use of the background removal tool making thing like this Christmas card.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Guess what my brother’s name is. I thought I was rather clever at the time, and to be honest I didn’t do that bad of a job considering my age.<\/p><\/div>\n
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I remember when we got our first printer. Mu sister and I were each going to be allowed to make something in MS paint and print it out. My sister made some sort of underwater scene with a bunch of … Continue reading