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3D Rendering from Facebook Videos

3D Rendering from Facebook Videos

First, source your video from facebook.  I used a video shot from a motorbike of a structure on side of the road.  It was from a post of a road trip in Indonesia by a fellow with my same name.  The scene reminded me of my travels in the Southwest Pacific when I was younger.  It looked like good material as a source for model rendering. For more information on the following steps, see this link for the details.  I…

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Multimedia Meta-data – More than meets the eye

Multimedia Meta-data – More than meets the eye

It is time to step back from system administrative tasks and move back into the subject of digitized multimedia data processing.  The subject is a vast ever evolving beast.  Multimedia basically consists of some combination of visual or auditory information.  With digitized multimedia, additional data can be layered which provides any number of uses. In this post, I’ll be focusing on image file meta-data.  There are several levels and flavors of meta-data which I won’t cover in detail here.  However,…

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RPi Network Packet Analysis Tooling

RPi Network Packet Analysis Tooling

In this post, I’ll cover using the Rpi as a network analysis tool. The hardware of the Rpi and the open source software that runs on it is an extremely cost effective method to network diagnostics and troubleshooting. The hardware layout I’ll be using is fairly simple. The Rpi 3 has built in interfaces for both wired and wireless connections. I’ll be using the wired connection as my packet sniffing port. It will not have any IP bound to it….

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