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...

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...

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...

Mandarin in Space

Mandarin in Space

Even though I have supervised developing of hundreds of apps, when boys were learning Mandarin in kindergarten, I decided to write this game myself to get them to practice their Mandarin. It is essentially a flash card game and actually can be...

Nitty Gritty of Style Transfer

Nitty Gritty of Style Transfer

Style transfer was first introduced by Aaron Hertzmann’s classic paper on Image Analogies from SIGGRAPH 2001. More recently deep learning got applied to this problem in Leon Gatys paper “A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style” which has led to a...

Playing with Gamma

Playing with Gamma

Gamma is the non-linearity in the CRT which matches closely the non-linearity in the human eye. It is no wonder that all display devices now artificially embed the non- linearity in the display. For example, a DLP (digital light processing)...