Twenkid FX - Compositing Test

Twenkid FX - Compositing Test at 26 Sep 2010 from Todor Arnaudov on Vimeo.Sequences were shot for the experimental fantasy short film "The Gift". Edited and composited using Twenkid FX - my custom NLE video editing and compositing/visual effects software. Still it's a prototype, developing quickly and gaining critical mass of complexity.Shot in Bulgaria and Poland in 2008. Camera and editing: me. To be continued....

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Clocks in the brain - How Consciousness Forms, 40 Hz Thalamus Clock

Excerpts from a Rober Pollack's book, suggested by a new article discussing Executive Attention, published by the AGI researcher Boris Kazachenko: The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science The key topics include: - The thalamus as a clock, 40 Hz and 1000 Hz. - 0.5 sec delay after a stimulus turns into a conscious sensation - clock's phase synchronizing to external sound stimuli - incapability of brain to discriminate and feel consciously events shorter than ~1/80th of sec - even a slight thalamus damage...

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Twenkid FX - Video Editing/Compositing/Visual Effects Progress (News)

It's not ready for public release, the GUI is rough and yet there are too many experimental features.Some of the interesting features include:- Non-Linear Editing - cut and rearrangement of video segments- Generation of cut and append jobs for VirtualDub based on the editions in Twenkid FX- Animated titles with Outlines, Zoom, Sweeping and other transition effects- Chroma key blending tests ("Green Screen") - Blending full frames...

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EPOC - Mind Reading Headset | Brain-Computer Interface Gadget

Watch the presentation on Ted: A headset that reads your brainwavesOrder: :)   http://www.emotiv.com/apps/epoc/299/Curiously, about a six years ago I was suggested by an AGI researcher I've met then to try to experiment together in EEG-recording and analysis for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). Unfortunately I lacked motivation to deal with the electronics part, but it is possible to make experiments yourself - if not with mind...

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