Author: chris
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Stereoscopes and Cardboard Part 2: Virtual Stereoscope
In Part 1 I learn about the history of stereoscopic photography. Here in Part 2 I am attempting to display stereoscope cards from the 1890s on my futuristic Google Cardboard. I took some time to calibrate as best I could the images in photoshop and place them in a 3d environment. At first I tried to…
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Stereoscopes and Cardboard Part 1: Digital Archaeology
Here in Part 1, I attempt to learn more about the history of stereoscopic photography. Part 2 involves converting this old photography into a Google Cardboard virtual reality app. I was in a rather large antique shop in Globe, Az snooping around and I came across some rather interesting photographs: These are stereoscopic images taken…
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Fixing Time Machine Files
Infrequently I’ll grab something off my Time Machine. But restoring stuff from time machine can sometimes fail. For example if you are restoring a file from another computer. I then have to resort to copying things over from the Time Machine hard drive, which causes weird permissions issue. And even if you change the user…
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Fixing Cmd-tab for Full Screen in Hearthstone on Mac
One of the more annoying things about Hearthstone on Mac is Blizzard’s decision/oversight to not allow cmd-tab to work in full-screen mode. Considering its written in Unity, and I’m a Unity game dev I knew exactly what was going on: their ‘Mac Full Screen Mode’ setting was not set to ‘Full Screen Window With Menu…
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Unity Tips: Running from the Command Line
Running Unity from the command line has a few benefits. And its easy: UNITY_VERSION=4.6.7p4 BRANCH=trunk /Applications/Unity$UNITY_VERSION/Unity.app/Contents/MacOS/Unity -projectPath /Users/chris/Projects/MyProject/$BRANCH/unity_project Open multiple projects! You can specify a Unity version (I usually immediately rename Unity to Unity$VERSION due to needing multiple versions of Unity installed). You can open up multiple branches of a project at the same time…
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The Knife Juggalo
Unbelievably, Google image search failed me when I searched for the Knife Juggalo. How could this mashup not exist? So I had to make this: Enjoy.
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My Favorite Game Soundtracks
Hey do you like music? I got some records back at my place. You want to come by and check them out? You do? THIS NEVER HAPPENS WITH VIDEO GAME MUSIC. First, a lot of music doesn’t even have physical form because its a tracker file or some arcane format meant to be played on an…
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Top Best Most Awesome of 2014: Strava
So far the Best Most Awesome has been games and movies. Because what else is there in life, right?! As I’ve already mentioned, friends are for people who don’t own video games. I do leave the house quite a fair bit tho. To do what?! Well…I ride my bike. Yep, I ride my bike…
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Top Best Most Awesome 2014: The Lego Movie
Christopher Nolan’s doesn’t write movies. He writes the ‘beginnings’ of movies. All that stuff that happens at the end? Pft, DETAILS. Because of this, I’ve been sorely wishing for a quality Batman movie. Who would’ve guessed that 2014 would have the BEST Batman movie…EVER? Yes, the Lego Movie, a toy-driven franchise, could have easily turned…
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The Top Best Most Awesome of 2014: The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth
My ‘Top Most Awesome’ series is not in any order, mainly because I don’t know if there is one. BUT one thing stands out for me at the top of my list: Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth. The original BOI was a truly fantastic game with one major flaw: it barely worked. I would get to…