I know I've done a lot in the last few days.
If you ask me to quantify or enumerate it I'd find
it difficult to jump things off the top of my head.

That's because it's all become a blur.

The major undertaking and the thing I've been literally thinking
about in my sleep is the Motion Tracker software I've been
trying to add to Blender.

You know Blender? That 3D modeling and oh-so-much-more program
I rave about? The one program that my future is indelibly
intertwined with. Yes, I've been figuring out how to augment
that program.

And I've been hesitating to write about my efforts because
I didn't know if posting about my efforts was worth as much as
just waiting until I achieved something and then posting that.

Well, that's one thing on the list of things I've been poking
around. Many of those things have revolved around that one goal.
The goal to bring match tracking VFX shots to the independent
film makers of the world.

This one feat is a tremendous undertaking. Something I'd have to
spend months on to really get anywhere. I'd like to think I can
stick to that but the truth is the better I feel the less I want
to sit in front of the computer doing this sort of thing.
Which is to say that my 500 hour illness was somewhat of a reset
button for my more technical work.

Had I not been so out of it I wouldn't have spent hour after hour
sorting through code learning how to add a SpaceType to Blender.
I succeeded in that though.

I've compiled a library called libmv
I've compiled a library called ARToolKit
and did some tests with my camera.

I kept thinking the whole time that this problem of figuring
out what the camera was doing from the footage had been solved
by the Augmented Reality people. I was right.
The problem now is the fact that feature films can't have giant
black and white patterns sitting in the footage.
And so I'm trying to figure out how to adjust the system
to erase tracking markers.

The thing is not all footage needs to erase the markers.
For example, I'll most likely be in front of a green screen
and now I'll be able to make camera moves because I can place
markers off to the sides and they'll be matted out.

There's also the idea that markers can be a bright non-green color
and in a larger pattern. Then they should be able to be removed
even if I subjects pass in front of them.

I don't know.

All I know is it's a lot of work to pull it off.
So I keep researching.

As I mentioned before... the list also includes
picking up NanoRex again. NanoEngineer-1 is software
for the modeling and simulation of nano scale structures.

Part of my motivation to research quantum mechanics is to gain a
more intuitive understanding of the world of the nano. And trying to
answer some big questions about what's possible. I was delighted to
spot the name Eric Drexler all over that site. He's the same fellow
whom wrote Engines of Creation
Just take a look at the Molecular Machinery Gallery
What's a deal more interesting is the Structural DNA Nanotechnology (SDN) Gallery
The amazing Paul W. K. Rothemund invented this wondrous DNA Origami technique.
And the other half of why it's interesting is the fact you can order DNA sequences online
and make whatever you want. Although, proving that fact may pose more of a challenge.
However, it's not like you can't build an Atomic Force Microscope* yourself.

I've also been research Hall Effect Sensors and how to build them
for the Zen Sensor Table Idea.

Yatta. Yatta like I said
I've been doing a lot of different things.
And none of what I mentioned includes the music test I've run,
music I've made, images I've generated. Etc. Or notes I've put down
for things to write.

*I lost that link but I know there were some professors out there at some
university that show you had to do this.