Agentic Architecture

Agentic Architecture

This architecture came about when I was thinking about the right components that will enable agents in an enterprise. This is a strawman that integrates multiple specialized components designed to create a robust, intelligent system capable of...

Klimt - Kiss

Klimt - Kiss

Using a large number of images from your database to create a desired output. It is essentially a matching problem where you find the image which most closely matches the pixel in your desired image. The original image is 4988x5025 and used a...

Performance Capture

Performance Capture

This image was my first foray into motion capture for Species in BOSS days. We all looked so young. SIL motion capture rig was all created internally at BOSS films. You can see Richard Edlund on the bottom right. This was really early days when...

Integrations

Integrations

Long Exposures are nothing but integrations over a period of time. I think this will be a cool way to introduce kids to the concept of time and how photography is nothing but an integration… … maybe there is some sampling in there as well.

Playing with Bokeh

Playing with Bokeh

Bokeh (pronounced /bo’ka/) is the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens. Most photo buffs including me primarily get high quality Bokeh with good quality glass. One quality...

Deep Names for Common Ideas

Deep Names for Common Ideas

Sometimes, we encounter complex names for concepts we’ve been using all along. Recently, I started exploring Dempster-Shafer Theory (more on that as I learn further) and came across the following: Principle of Insufficient Reason Also known as...

Painting with Light

Painting with Light

I love painting with light… putting a small object in complete darkness and then lighting the scene with a small flashlight. Observe the two very different renditions of identical composition.

Martini On Photons

Martini On Photons

Painting with Light Painting with light is just a joy to use. One keeps the camera on the tripod along with a still life and then go around and light the scene with a flashlight as you see fit. Some examples follow. In the images below all the...

The Little Prince

The Little Prince

This document was created mapping the cartesian coordinates to the polar coordinates. We were visiting The Cube in Orange County and I shot a 360 panorama of Devin. So the x axis of the image represented the azimuth and the y axes the elevation....