Well its about time. For anyone who doesn’t know I have spent the time since my last post to about 1 week ago working for Realtime Worlds.  And in case you have not heard the news the reason I am no longer working for the good people at RTW is that they no longer exist. A sad day, lets all take a moment…

Now the good news. If anyone is looking to hire an intelligent, dedicated, organised and all round awesome individual I am here to fulfil 3 of those 4 requirements.just get in touch and I’ll see what I can do for you.

While I wait for everyone to recover from the shock of those last 2 paragraphs and gather their propositions for employment I have been working to make some changes to the site. First is a new  look. I will be looking to change it in the next few hours but it still needs some tweaks. Last time I tried this everything broke so right now I will just hope for the best. Any feedback is appreciated.

Now for even more good news, I have decided I need a new project. I am going to gather a team to develop a game. I have an idea and a concept but as usual I think I have aimed too big so if you would like to be part of something let me know. I need code, design, art and story writers to work with.  It will at the very least be something to add to your portfolio and at best a cult hit that will take the world by surprise in which case it will also look good in a portfolio. Its win win the way I see it.

I’ll add more information as I get it in a shape that is fit for semi public consumption and will endeavour to keep this updated on at the very least an annual basis.

Advances in stereoscopic displays and methods of interaction have opened up several areas of possible research. This coupled with advances in graphical computing power led to the development of this project.

Wiisualisation is a plugin designed for the open source DICOM viewer Osirix. It was designed to generate 3D medical models from various existing medical scans such as MRI or CT scans. When the model is generated the plugin connects to and accepts input from a wiiMote. The wiiMote is the controller for Nintendo’s recent console release, the Wii. It is aware of both position and motion and so has provided a new novel form of control. The project concentrates on the development of a large stereoscopic display which can be used for group viewings. This would allow for the demonstration of highly detailed medical models in a group learning environment.
It is hoped that well a designed and implemented stereoscopic display coupled with the novel method of control in the form of the wiiMote will result in a more eective means of teaching.

To aid in this outcome research was conducted into how groups learn. It is believed that when groups are presented with new technologies then they become more motivated to learn. It is this particular aspect of groups behaviours when learning which should cause students to be more engaged using Wiisualisation.

And now the best news. You can download the plugin, the thesis and the source code if you want it. Just remember you need to have a Mac and a Wiimote and you need to download Osirix

• Osirix
• Wiisualisation
  
• Thesis
• Source

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All in all I am happy with the result which I will be Posting here at some point in the future, and with that finished I find myself with some questions. The greatest of these being what to do next. The good Mr Teoiny O Connell has in his position a brand new desktop which I would very much like to see. Now that I have the free time I should be able to go visit him. There is always work at the opticians but I think I need to get out of there sooner rather than later. Of course I could always go hunting for the next project Straight away and while I am waiting there is the xna game I am planning to develop. For now I shall Attach a build of the ImagEdit plugin for Osirix. Feel free to try it out but remember it is designed for use with DICOM sets made up of JPG Images.

UPDATE: I will have to wait until I get home to upload the various files because the upload wont work from here. Sorry to disappoint anyone dying to get their hands on the application but go play with Osirix for a few hours and see how that goes.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. Hope you are having a goodtime and not wasting too much of your christmas day reading this. It has been a while since I have updated this but not to worry, I havent had much to say but there is some news so I might just update this properly in the next month or so.

For now I’m just wishing anyone reading this a happy christmas. Enjoy yourself and I’ll fill you in further later.

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Well i havent graduated but the thesis is finished and I have left the country. On holiday, not permenantly.  The projects website is up at Wiisualisation. The site covers the whole development of the project which also included learning Objective C. That was tough, never even looked at it before but it all worked out in the end. Had to have a look at developing a plugin for an application where there was no API and no access to the existing classes.

Also Halloween happened. I went as the hulk but i wasnt green enough I am afraid. The photos are on Flickr If you want to have a look. But now i must start drinking all the mountain dew and eating all the donuts.

Anyway, the site has gone live. CorkLAN.com. Now i do use live in the widest possible sense. It is entirely devoid of content and the registration system is broken but its something. I am picking up the flyers tomorrow and the advertising is gonna start in earnest. First place is midLANs.net. Its a bigger and more established event and its on this weekend. That means a chance to get a good look at the network and what they have on offer. Its running for the full 48 hours. Unfortunately i wont be able to go to the whole thing. Gotta be back here on saturday. I’ll try catch some sleep before driving back but it should be an excellent night.

And the reason I am cutting my fun little trip short is… Simon is coming home. He will be with us for 10 days before jetting off again and just heard that his flight will be 9 hours delayed in hong kong so forget about playing much on saturday. Still though It will be good to see him again.

And thats about it. Still plodding away at the project. At least i have something working, Kind of anyway. I have to throw a few extra little things in there. Once its finished though I think i will be putting up the story online for any poor sap that wants to read the whole thing.

First I have been oh so busy writing stuff up for my project and have a healthy blog going for it. No you cant see it and i know how much you really want to but the answer is still no. Well actually the answer is maybe later when i am all done i will make it publically accessible so the worldcan understand my fury.

Second excuse is the site has been having a few issues. Just one or two though. Seems I had an old forum lweft running and its was getting a tad outta hand. Sorry to anyione who was using it but to be honest i am pretty sure all the posts were just spam. If you would like a new forum in which to play please leave a comment and i will be appy to oblige. Though this time i might just try and keep an eye on things.

Third excuse is Games. I got rockband and it is excellent. I am truly loving it. I am even buying songs. Got into the hall of fame in the world tour mode and now its time for the long slog to get at the endless setlist. 58 songs and know break, I better get a real life medal for that. I am also still not finished GTA4. I never get the chance to just sit down and play it. I am about 20 hours in and At this stage i kinda just want to be done with it. I might do a review of both of these games at some stage for kicks.

Fourth one is kinda related to the third. The PSN. I love my PS3 but I have to admit it falls short as a games machine. That said the PSN game are far and away better than most of the drivel on the live arcade.there were two recently that i got purely on the originality of their ideas. Echochrome and elefunk. I am too stupid for echchrome though and I am in no way an engineer. Still having great fun with both though. Now Pixel Junk Eden has just come out too so I gotta give that a whirl. Supposed to be great as a multiplayer game, all i need are some friends [SAD FACE].

So to make up for this i am going to play around with the sites layout. I am also doing this because Theses Saturdays at work with no testing are a killer.

UPDATE: Yeah, thats not going to happen actually. I am feeling a bit lazy and the quick switch caused the comments to break. Sorry. I’ll think about it thoug and make a less half assed attempt another time

In a completly seperate topic of which nobody will be interested in Mr Foott finally got himself a car to be truly proud of and may i say it is fair pretty. I took a few picks with my Phone, tried to put its camera to the test and its didnt do too bad. The pictures are after the break and the few i had a bit of a play with using the simple filters in photoshop are in my flicker photostream or just use the photos link above and wander on to the “Stuff” folder. Use whichever and hopefully pass some of your day. The original photos are in a gallery after the break.