I have a soft spot for good data visualization and have been contributing to python’s matplotlib, especially its 3D plots. Check out my matplotlib contributions on GitHub here.
Turn your CAD models into Stereograms
It’s easy to get intuition of the shape of a CAD model when rotating the model around in your CAD software or a 3D viewer. Unfortunately, most of the web is still 2D, and it’s much easier to pass around images than .step or .stl files. Fortunately, 2D is all you need to make images […]
Introducing the ‘mpl_stereo’ Library to Make Stereograms and Anaglyphs
When I was a kid growing up in the 90’s, I was fascinated with the “Magic Eye” books. These were picture books filled with images like the one below, which when you did a special technique of “unfocusing” your eyes and staring through the page, transformed into 3D images popping off the page. Learning the […]
Flying around 3d plots with an IMU and quaternions
Cool Video First! Project Idea I generate a good number of 3D plots for work and other projects, and for a while I’ve wanted to make a physical device that acts as a “virtual camera” that would let me fly around the 3D data virtually. In a fully featured end state, this would basically be […]