DIY Projects
Tilt-shift: A DIY guide
Have you ever wondered how tilt-shift miniature photography works and why it looks so strangely convincing? Have you ever wanted to have a tilt-shift lens but couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars needed to buy one? Have you ever wanted to take real tilt-shift photos? Then this short introduction to tilt-shift photography and DIY tilt-shift lens building is for you.
The fisheye tin cam
A DIY fisheye lens made from a soda can and a door peephole! It's ludicrously fun to shoot with.
The Phone-O-Scope
A cheap, easy-to-build adapter to attach SLR lenses to camera phones.
HD Time-lapse with linux and and SLR
http://cow.mooh.org/2009/01/low-cost-hd-time-lapse-photography.html
Here I my approach to HD time-lapse photography using a cheap netbook, linux and a DSLR.
DIY ring flash
http://cow.mooh.org/2009/01/el-cheapo-diy-ringflash-that-uses.html
A DIY project that attempts to build a ringflash using the inbuilt flash on a DSLR.
Paper models
http://cow.mooh.org/projects/bighead
How to make a DIY papercaft big head mask.
http://cow.mooh.org/paper
A collection of paper models generated from various FPS games.
Plungercam 1
http://blog.cow.mooh.org/2009/03/building-tilt-shift-plungercam-lens-for.html
A DIY tilt-shift lens made using a plunger and a medium format lens.
Plungercam 2
http://blog.cow.mooh.org/2009/07/plungercam-2-cheaper-and-more.html
Second revision of plungercam 1, this time optimised for use in time-lapse photography.
Other interests
Papercraft
During the course of my PhD work I investigated the distortion-free
unfolding of model geometry into a 2D net for good quality texturing. I
applied some of these techniques to models from early 3D computer
games, and made these unfolded nets
available for free online.
This led to two magazine articles (in Jumpbutton and Computer Gaming World - see left) and a TV appearance (on ABC2's
Good Game - see right).
Links to the articles can be found
here and
here; a link to the TV segment can be found
here.
Ultrasonics History
In 2003 I had helped kick off an initiative to record and document the development and
history of Ultrasound technology in Australia.
The
materials and equipment collated are now stored and displayed by the
Powerhouse museum in Sydney, Australia.
Open-source DICOM writer for IDL
I developed an
open-source library for the writing of DICOM images in IDL. It has enjoyed
wide use, and part or all of the library has been included in a number of third-party packages (
link,
link,
link, and
link).
