Blueprints are great, but sometimes it’s hard to connect the dots between floors. (more…)

For a while now I ‘ve been looking for a way to more easily carry and organize all my gadgets and things that I take with me frequently. iPod, phone, wallet, keys, USBs, etc. can fill the pockets pretty quickly.
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First off, I don’t own a Kinect, nor have I ever done anything with motion capture. That said, that doesn’t mean I won’t have a need for it in the future!

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The other day, I was working on a client’s Google Place Page, working towards making it as complete as possible. I noticed that the client had a video available about their business on their website, and I wanted to get it into their Place Page. There’s only one problem: Google only allows the user to link to videos posted to YouTube exclusively.

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Check out a promising open source compositor here.

- HDR
- Node Based
- Multi-Platform (Windows, Linux, OSX)
- Free
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Admittedly, it initially doesn’t sound too flattering or desirable to discuss DIY within a professional video production company. I mean, after all, what small business in Kalamazoo would want to pay for video production from a company that embraces a Do-It-Yourself mentality?
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Dynamic Tessellation (Triangulation)

What is Dynamic Tessellation? Good question. Now the answer from the completely reliable source Wikipedia:

“In the subject of computer graphics, tessellation techniques are often used to manage datasets of polygons and divide them into suitable structures for rendering. Normally, at least for real-time rendering, the data is tessellated into triangles, which is sometimes referred to as triangulation.“1
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In order to stay relevant, we here at Ignertia have recently begun our venture into the third dimension. While not really sure what that means exactly, I believe that we are executing the transition wonderfully. (more…)

Why is digital cinema resolution different from television resolution?
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First, I must confess…this blog has much less to do with video than the title insinuates. Rather, it’s really more of a math problem that is somewhat related to video streaming.

Within the last couple weeks, I came across an article that talked about Google’s new “experimental fiber network,”and mentioned some of the efforts that the city of Kalamazoo is doing to become a prototype community for the venture. It’s a pretty short and to-the-point article. But one thing jumped out at me, (more…)