a cold, wood & fire

TBBE came back just in time to practice a bit before he will become a doctor. He was playing a nurse (a very good and patient nurse) while I had a very bad cold ;-)

In the meanwhile we had another weather record in Bergen - a cold record. November 2010 is the coldest since 1919!!! Lucky us to be here in that grateful moment!!! Wow! ;-)
Anyway, probably because of the low temperatures (-5C to -10C) we were driving around the city yesterday trying to find a shop that would have any wood in store. Mission completed after almost 2 hours.

And I have almost burnt our house with that wood today.... I did nothing unusual, just added an extra piece of wood to the wood-stove to warm up our flat faster and suddenly there was a fire within the tube connecting the wood-stove with the chimney... Large fire, plenty of smoke outside - our adrenalin level increased significantly...
Fortunately after applying some decent amount of water everything came back to normality. Well, almost everything, the wall about the wood-stove isn't white any more...


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size obsession

I didn't really want to comment on the fact that the largest statue of Jesus stands now in Poland (see news), but I could not resist to post this :-)

Poland

Here stands the world's largest statue of Aragorn

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uufffffff :-)

On the 10th of December, around 10:30 TBBE should become PhDTBBE :-)

All needed plane tickets bought, all the plans rearranged... uffff...


a very good end of the week :-)


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even closer now ...

The most promising PhD candidate that I know have just passed the last exam!!!!

On Friday we will know the exact date of the defence !

Happy! Very happy :-)

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from Venus and Mars part 1.

Finally a veeeery lazy weekend :-)
Yesterday I finished reading "The girl who played with fire" by Stieg Larsson :-) Something to recommend!
and have just started to listen to (audiobook) the last part of the trilogy about Millenium.
This made my one hour walk in rain much more pleasuring :-)

Anyway, TBBE sent me this interesting and quite funny (if you take it as funny) advertisement (from Mars) when he was pretending that he was studying for the exams :-)


and I found this very strong, maybe too strong, riposte (from Venus):



BTW: TBBE has two out of the three final exams tomorrow - cross your fingers!



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Volume raycaster

Writing (C++ with QT) this volume raycaster took about 1,5-2 months of my life. Not only in the working hours... 

It was a part of the course assignment on the Visualisation course that I take now. Very interesting stuff I must say :-)

Below you will find a couple of visualisations of the computer tomography (CT) data:

Direct volume rendering (DVR) with a 1D transfer function.

DVR with another 1D transfer function.

DVR with diffuse and specular shading (Phong).

DVR with diffuse and specular shading (Phong).

and my favourite - terminator look :-)

Considering the fact that this is the first application with a GUI (graphical user interface) in my short 'career' of  a beginner C++ programmer - I really like the results :-)

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PhDTTBE closer and closer !!!!

TBBE has finally received the two long awaited reviews of his dissertation!!!
And both are very positive :-]

Tratata :-)

And the upgrade from TBBE to PhDTBBE might even come before Christmas !!!






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Light painting

Hey, that is so cool!!!





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Colours :-)

Suddenly it stopped raining and all the greyness disappeared :-)