C'est la Vie

I had to register for classes this morning, so I assembled a schedule last night based on the classes that were "available" on UK's course directory.

Nothing much to complain about. Despite PHY 242 and EE 281, it's a fairly consistent schedule.

As it turns out, though, UK lists all of its possible sections as "available" even if the class, for whatever reason, doesn't exist (one of the professors declined to teach it, etc.). Unfortunately, I'd chosen some of these fake sections, so I had to do some shuffling this morning. Here's what I ended up with:

Hardly what I started with. To be honest, it's kind of a mess. But oh well. Maybe it'll work out alright. I've just got mixed feelings about that 6:00 Calculus 3 class. And I'll withhold my rude opinions about the 8:00 logical circuit design lab on Thursdays.

FLAR, huh?

So I've been casually running across these FLAR (Flash Augmented Reality) things for the last few years. Sometimes in YouTube videos, sometimes in the news, but I've never really messed with it myself.

Until I ran across a GE banner ad today.

I held the paper up the camera and out folded wind turbines and the golden gate bridge, followed by a sunrise through the marker image on the paper. Pretty dramatic; I was surprised at how well it worked. So then I started scratching around the internet for other similar novelties.

This one was a New Years promotion by the company that made the game "Katamari Damaci." They don't outright provide the marker, so it took a bit of Googling to make it work.

The car didn't work very well. And it was a little on the ugly side.

These fireworks were pretty cool. You wait for the picture to dim, then click to launch the rockets.


Um. . . yeah.

I saved the best for last. This one projects an interactive globe above the marker image, and a clock on the image itself. Give it a name and a zip code, and it points it out on the globe. Groovy, eh?

LINKZ:

• GE ad
• New Years Promo
• Car
• Fireworks
• Tounge
• Globe