| Dear the dream I dream tonight, |
[01 Jun 2009|01:33am] |
Your optimistic glassy eye feeding into a constellation of hopes and dreams, combustive stars and patterns of uncertainty in my head, causes me to feel numb and pointless. In my dream tonight, I wish to have no fear in a bottle and send it out to sea. In my dream, a child will find it and be certain that I am not afraid to be alive, and that I will someday find you in one piece and that our futures are worth the long and treacherous walk. We will always walk alone, but our strides shall remain perfectly synchronized. Our sadness invades us, yet does not consume.
In my dream tonight, I dream of smashing Earth Robots to bits with my charitable fists of personality, self-realization, and complex emotion- all in hopes of altering the current path of worldly destruction. These Earthbots will now have feeling and capability of processing information given to them. They will no longer ask questions and JUST DO. Their mouths speak of prophecy and their tongues will taste bittersweet imagery of our constant battles to gain oneness with the current world, and the world soon to come. Our children and grandchildren, and our children's grandchildren, will be the rulers of our nation. In my dream tonight, these rulers will not waste a lifetime putting laborious efforts into becoming someone other than themselves.
In my dream tonight, there are no idols, JUST US. We will meet at the point where fantasy meets reality and we are still unable to decipher the difference between the two. Black will have become white, and white will have become the void that continues to fill me with moroseness and doubt.
Three flowers will be perfectly lined up outside of my garden, each one expressing something unique. The first flower is a burning yellow daffodil, whose neck will stretch out in the brisk, morning air. It will display the beauty of a night spent on the beach in a white plastic chair; an entanglement of two hearts that beat in time, sending from the heavens, a violent rainfall to beat down upon me.
The second flower is a cherry blossom. It's thorns will remind us of the self-inflicted harm we choose to rest upon. It's baby-soft, pink petals, will invite us in and lead me to a life full of dissemblance and mortification. Yellow eyes glare back from the center of the flower in attempts to apprise humankind of the dangers in leading a lifestyle full of such emptiness and malcontent . Despite these efforts, we fail to accept such things and continue living as careless as ever, evading the laws of which we were placed here to live by. Such denigration should kill a man.
The third and final flower happens to stand out the most in my dream tonight. A pansy- my great-grandmother's favorite. Cheeky innocence shrouds its face in beauty. It is a mere representation of the finality of life as we currently understand it. This pansy is the atom deep within us that gives a reason to live, and provides self-esteem and comfort when we die. It leaves us grateful for the small things life has to offer. It completes our destiny with direction and ease. The pansy pulls regret from our viscera, and molds it into ashes that are sprinkled over Earth from the sky, landing on it's newest and final form: Clarity and Reconciliation.
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| Feels like the beginning of an end. |
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I am moving to the East Coast if any of you want to hang out before I go. It's always nice to relive the moments of our lives that didn't suck.
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I think I should write a song about insomnia.
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| Threated to Life |
[10 Nov 2006|05:59am] |
As with any 5am pad arrival, my brain battles my body to a game of 'To sleep or not to sleep?'. I should be used to this charade by now.
The Scooners played an awesome show at Rainbow Bar and Grill, not to mention they won first place in battle of the bands (hosted by X107.5) and a chance of playing at Holiday Havoc or whatever that crap is featuring almost every band most people hated or didn't pay any attention to.
Nonetheless, It was a great show.
With nothing much to look forward to, I continue to self-satisfy by writing my own music, as well as trying to play as many gigs as possible to pay the rent. Fucking rent. I have found a great solution to obtaining enough money to claim as my own in the bank. (This dollar amount ranges from 1 dollar to 10 dollars, depending on the week)- NOT EATING. It works. Maybe if you tried it you would know.
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[06 Sep 2006|05:12pm] |
Entity-relationship model From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computer science, an entity-relationship model (ERM) is a model providing a high-level description of a conceptual data model. Data modeling provides a graphical notation for representing such data models in the form of entity-relationship diagrams (ERD). The first stage of information system design uses these models to describe information needs or the type of information that is to be stored in a database during the requirements analysis. The data modeling technique can be used to describe any ontology (i.e. an overview and classifications of used terms and their relationships) for a certain universe of discourse (i.e. area of interest). In the case of the design of an information system that is based on a database, the conceptual data model is, at a later stage (usually called logical design), mapped to a logical data model, such as the relational model; this in turn is mapped to a physical model during physical design. Note that sometimes, both of these phases are referred to as "physical design". There are a number of conventions for entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs). The classical notation is described in the remainder of this article, and mainly relates to conceptual modelling. There are a range of notations more typically employed in logical and physical database design, including information engineering, IDEF1x (ICAM DEFinition Language) and dimensional modelling.
Common symbols Two related entities  An entity with an attribute  A relationship with an attribute An entity represents a discrete object. Entities can be thought of (roughly) as nouns. Examples: a computer, an employee, a song, a mathematical theorem. A relationship captures how two or more entities are related to one another. Relationships can be thought of (again, roughly) as verbs. Examples: an owns relation between a company and a computer, a supervises relation between an employee and a department, a performs relation between an artist and a song, a proved relation between a mathematician and a theorem. Entities are drawn as rectangles, relationships as diamonds. Entities and relationships can both have attributess. Examples: an employee entity might have a social security number attribute (in the US); the proved relation may have a date attribute. Attributes are drawn as ovals connected to their owning entity sets by a line. Every entity (unless it is a weak entity) must have a minimal set of uniquely identifying attributes. This set is called the entity's primary key. Entity-relationship diagrams don't show single entities or single instances of relations. Rather, they show entity sets and relationship sets (displayed as rectangles and diamonds respectively). Example: a particular song is an entity. The collection of all songs in a database is an entity set. The proved relationship between Andrew Wiles and Fermat's last theorem is a single relationship. The set of all such mathematician-theorem relationships in a database is a relationship set. Lines are drawn between entity sets and the relationship sets they are involved in. If all entities in an entity set must participate in a relation in the relationship set, a thick line is drawn. This is called a participation constraint. If each entity of the entity set can participate in at most one relationship in the relationship set, an arrow is drawn from the entity set to the relationship set. This is called a key constraint. To indicate that each entity in the entity set is involved in exactly one relationship, a thick arrow is drawn. Associative entity is used to solve the problem of two entities with a many-to-many relationship [1]. Unary Relationships - a unary relationship is a relationship between the rows of a single table.
Less common symbolsA weak entity is an entity that can't be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone, and therefore must use as its primary key both its own attributes and the primary key of an entity it is related to. A weak entity set is indicated by a bold rectangle (the entity) connected by a bold arrow to a bold diamond (the relationship). Double lines can be used instead of bold ones. Attributes in an ER model may be further described as multi-valued, composite, or derived. A multi-valued attribute, illustrated with a double-line ellipse, may have more than one value for at least one instance of its entity. For example, a piece of software (entity=application) may have the multivalued attribute "platform" because at least one instance of that entity runs on more than one operating system. A composite attribute may itself contain two or more attributes and is indicated as having at least contributing attributes of its own. For example, addresses usually are composite attributes, composed of attributes such as street address, city, and so forth. Derived attributes are attributes whose value is entirely dependent on another attribute and are indicated by dashed ellipses. For example, if we have an employee database with an employee entity along with an age attribute, the age attribute would be derived from a birth date attribute. Sometimes two entities are more specific subtypes of a more general type of entity. For example, programmers and marketers might both be types of employees at a software company. To indicate this, a triangle with "ISA" on the inside is drawn. The superclass is connected to the point on top and the two (or more) subclasses are connected to the base. A relation and all its participating entity sets can be treated as a single entity set for the purpose of taking part in another relation through aggregation, indicated by drawing a dotted rectangle around all aggregated entities and relationships.
ClassificationEntity relationship models can be classified in BERMs (Binary Entity Relation Model) and GERMs (General Entity Relationship Model) according to if only binary relationships are allowed. A binary relationship is a relationship between two entities. Thus, in a GERM, relationships between three or more entities are also allowed.
See also
ReferencesThis paper is one of the most cited papers in the computer field. It was selected as one of the most influential papers in computer science in a recent survey of over 1,000 computer science professors. The citation is listed, for example, in DBLP: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/ [2]
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[26 Jul 2006|11:14am] |
It sucks to have to admit I'll miss him.
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| $139 can go a long way |
[10 Jun 2006|11:32pm] |
I don't have to sleep on the floor anymore!
:D
Yay for impulsive late-night-mattress-shopping-sprees!
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| My first Linear Interpolation Lesson |
[18 Mar 2006|10:33am] |
My final project for 2D animation requires 60 frames total, under the following methods:
Keyframes
The extent to which an image changes from one frame to the next and methods for controlling such changes are obviously important in sustaining the illusion of motion. A common basic means for envisioning and executing a series of changing images is to use keyframes describing the extremes of a character's motion. Deducing the other ``in-between'' frames then requires little artistic decision making. In traditional animation houses, an animator draws the keyframes and assistants and ``inbetweeners'' draw the inbetween frames. However, even with acetate cels to layer images and reuse stationary components, this is an extremely time-consuming task that requires skill and patience. Even a five minute animation movie short, for instance, has 5 minutes x 60 seconds/minute x 24 frames/second = 7,200 frames, and a feature length film has over a hundred thousand. Although keyframes and pencil tests (sequences drawn with outlines and not yet filled in with colors) provide some feedback before each frame is created in full detail, the traditional process requires very careful advance planning and last minute experimentation can be prohibitively expensive.
Inbetweening
The computer can expedite the animation process by producing inbetween frames automatically. In the simple scenario in Figure 1, the goal is to animate a ball thrown in the air--starting at ground level, rising into the air while moving sideways, and returning to the ground. The three keyframes needed are the ball's beginning and end positions and highest point. Now, instead of drawing the intermediate frames by hand, the artist can choose to inbetween these frames automatically.
Linear Interpolation
The simplest kind of automatic inbetweening is linear inbetweening which is done with a mathematical process of guessing intermediate locations called linear interpolation. To interpolate simple means to calculate a new value inbetween two known values. Linear interpolation creates new values at equal distances along a line between two known values. In animating an object moving between two points in space, linear inbetweening creates new frames at equal intervals along a straight line between two of the keyframes, as in Figure 2. The number of intervals (and thus number of frames) is determined by the user. If two of the keyframes are one second apart, for example, and the artist has specified that the animation should run at ten frames/second, then the time between the frames is represented by 10 frames shown at ten equal intervals.
Key Frame Animation
Key frames mark important visual transitions (extremes of action).
Inbetweening is creation of intermediate frames between the key frames. Can be calculated by computer.
Temporal Sampling
A digitized image is composed of discrete samples of a continuous image, arranged to create the illusion of a continuous picture
Similarly, film recording takes samples of an image at fixed time intervals--i.e., temporal samples. When these are arranged and played at a certain rate (24 frames/sec. for film, 30 frames/sec. for video, 60 to 70 for some fast-moving computer graphics applications) an illusion of continuous motion is created.
Inbetweening is letting the computer produce additional temporal samples (frames) between predefined key frames in an animation.
Problem: hard to create truly life-like animation unless keyframes are designed for almost every other frame. True in both computer and traditional animation.
Computer inbetweening often used as aid for storyboarding, testing sequences (as in Jurassic Park).
Geometric Transformation
and Animation
An important distinction
Geometric transformations do not create motion--they cause instantaneous changes.
Intermediate frames necessary to create illusion of motion (animation) are created by calculating additional transformations (inbetweening).
The Math Behind Inbetweening
New way of thinking about linear paths that will enable us to calculate the inbetween frames. Let's begin with lines:
Given a line segment from v1 to v2, how to express midpoint? Use equal combinations of both point positions:
x = 1/2 (x1 + x2) = (1/2) x1 + (1/2) x2
y = 1/2 (y1 + y2) = (1/2) y1 + (1/2) y2
Three-fourths of the way? Use a combination of three quarters of the final destination and one quarter of the starting point:
x = (1/4) x1 + (3/4) x2
y = (1/4) y1 + (3/4) y2
Can think of this as weighted averages of point positions
Math of Inbetweening (cont.)
So how is this related to inbetweening? By letting our position on this very practically defined line depend on another variable such as elapsed time (represented by the letter t--but note that t does not have to be time)
Conveniently, we have defined our trip to begin at t = 0 and end at t = 1.
So, for a parameter t
x = (1 - t) x1 + tx2
y = (1 - t) y1 + ty2
Because the line definition now depends on a third parameter (not x or y, but t) it is called a parametric equation.
Advantage of Parametric vs. Explicit Line Definition
Explicit (y in terms of x) line definition:
y = mx + b, m = dx/dy; how best to deal with
vertical slope?
finite lines (line segments)?
Parametric (y and x in terms of t):
x = (1 - t) x1 + tx2,
y = (1 - t) y1 + ty2, 0 # t #1
for vertical slope (x1 = x2)
for t = 0, x = x1, y = y1
for t = 1, x = x2, y = y2
restricted range of t defines a segment, not a whole line:
t < 0, (x, y) lies ``before'' it
t > 1, (x, y) lies ``after'' it
Linear Interpolation
Used to calculate inbetween frames.
Used to move a point along a vector, with parametric line definition.
Given corresponding vertices v1 and v2 of an object at keyframes 1 and 2 respectively, the position of v during the intermediate frames calculated for a time t by
vt = (1 - t)v1 + tv2
value of t ranges from 0 to 1 (0 # t # 1)
at t = 0, vt = (1 - 0)v1 + (0)v2 = v1
at t = 1, vt = (1 - 1)v1 + (1)v2 = v2
at t = 1/2, vt = (1/2)v1 + (1/2)v2, etc.
Example: Linear Interpolation--Translation and Size
The points of the interpolated house are halfway between the two initial houses, resulting in a house that is half the size.
No scaling transformation has been applied!
The scaling of the house is a result only of interpolating between the different sized houses in the key frames.
Other Parameters to Linearly Interpolate
Rotation
Color
Surface properties
Transparency
Lighting
Shape
Camera focal length
Example: Interpolated Shapes--1
Here first and last shapes have equal number of vertices.
Half-way shape may look nothing like beginning or end shapes.
Example: Interpolated Shapes--2
Here first and last shapes have unequal number of vertices.
Correspondence has been achieved by adding additional vertices at midpoints of line segments in first shape (only one of many possible methods).
Interpolation Along Polylines
Approach: treat each segment vi to vi+1 separately:
first vt = (1 - t) v1 + tv2
then vt = (1 - t) v2 + tv3
then vt = (1 - t) v3 + tv4
etc.
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| 学校はある! |
[13 Dec 2005|09:31am] |
クリスはこれを読むことができる唯一の人おそらくである。 均一私はそれを読むことができる。 私はちょうどそれを言いたいと思った:
a) 私は私のバンドを愛する。
b) 私は化学前のための新しいCD 設計をした(皿及び小冊子と)
c) 生命はかなりいまいましい大きい。
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| Holy Corn Syrup! |
[30 Nov 2005|02:47pm] |
I just found a gummy worm in my bag of gummy bears.
That's the second best thing that's happened to me all year!
Thanksgiving break had to have been "best thing-number one".
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| tax money going to bomb-making and murder for profit |
[06 Nov 2005|08:40pm] |
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I can't wait for death of the TV.
You know, those loud and brainwashing fabrications we portray as some sort of entertainment.
Emits of light at 9,300 Celsius. Somehow this bluish white glow is what has been found to hypnotize millions of watchers worldwide. Unfortunately, the TV screen isn't that hot (direct electronic excitation not thermal excitation), so when little kids sit close to the TV, their ghastly annihilation is seized once again.
Damn kids and their immortality... (*cough* M.P)
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| Fancy Stop Torturing Me With Stuff I Can't Afford! |
[01 Nov 2005|10:03am] |
Halloween was lame, but still fun. I had school till ten pm and then I hung out with some BFF’s. We drank...waited till I could drive home...then I left and the night was silent.
So eventful, yeah, I know.
I slept good though and somehow managed to wake up at 5:00am......
I wanted to go get all dressed up and stuff, cause I actually had a costume, but oh well. Tony waited and waited for me to come get him so we could go drunken trick or treating, but I never showed....
Once he called me to tell me he was ready, I was still at school.
I’m having a hard time catching up with the days. Every time I feel this way, something bad has to happen. Oh well.
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| Murder Scene Sheets Act I |
[28 Oct 2005|01:48am] |
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*Yeah That's Right Bitch, You Better Eat That YellowTail!
*No more driving over medians please.
*Big B's Sprees = mmm.
*Zia Sprees= mmm(x2).
*Random Book Spree=
The Complete Hammer Films Story, House of Horror (New and Improved!)
Also got Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach along with a couple others....
Pudu, Stop feeling Strange. Now.
it's not so much a storm
but just a cloud that lives inside of me
he doesn't disturb so easily these days
but when he wakes he goes the distance.
in a marathon it takes too long
open containers that sing songs
you'll never dream again
but you can pray
i guess we only settle in to what we know
i guess we always settle in, we know.
but there is comfort in a world
where darkness is the only thing we see
and cold is all we have to breathe
where expectations keep us company
with the light we take to the outside
will it die? i somehow hide of out control.
it's not about the sky
or the clouds that walk all over me
they don't give up too easily these days
but when they break they go to pieces.
for a pond blood here in north set barns
under a sky that knows no stars
you'll never shine again
but you will stay.
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| With A Community Like This, Who Needs A Gate? |
[28 Oct 2005|01:17am] |
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Speed Up.
Slow Down.
Why Come Up,
When You're Coming Down?
It's twisted. It's useless. Don't do it.
Slashdot Says Be Happy!
I'm not going to single handedly brush the entire board of mental problems off the table with any ignorant statement suggesting that anyone with a mental problem is a pansy who needs to get a grip and grow up. I mention this because there are people who do say this. A few years ago when I was still a teenager and oblivious to the complications of love, work, depression, loss and regret that people in the real world endure, I would have quite possibly asserted that very opinion.
There are genuine people in the world with tangible illnesses. People who cannot live with themselves or in a society because of various reasons which lead them to become incredibly reclusive and withdrawn (as in, building a compound on my land and hiding from the black helicopters and United Nations troops who are trying to subvert American government kind of withdrawn), serial killers, mass murderers, wife beaters or even to commit suicide.
It seems the goal of psychiatrists and psychologists to diagnose in every human being some horrid mental illness or individual defect which sets them apart from the sedated, unaffected, diluted norm of society (ie: prescribing Seroquel to those whom of which don't need it). God forbid you be unique. There is no consideration for the brilliant artists, writers, musicians, architects, poets, film producers and others for whom such 'defects' give them an edge to life and an illuminated view of so much which the blind cattle who succumb to daily life submitting to the whims of corporate dollars, managerial demands and dull suburbia are oblivious to.
Unless you are affected to such a degree as to waver on the edge of being a sociopath capable and willing to kill (or physically harm) others, then you (again, in my opinion) suffer from no mental defect or chemical imbalance. Sure, chemistry plays an important roll in defining our propensity toward certain behavior. But that chemical composition and the propensity toward certain behavior is exactly what sets us apart from one another. To sedate by therapy, counseling or medication, that unique individuality granted to us by whatever cosmic coincidence or effort is a gross and heart-breaking attack on our humanity.
Give me the lowest lows of depression and the highest highs of deluded ecstasy and the clouded judgment of a manic depressive mind in action over the cubicle confined nine-to-five inactive, emotionally sterile subservient work-a-day drone's mind any day.
Insanity, wrap your warm and arousing arms around me and keep away the cold, pallid tendrils of sanctioned normalcy. Let the insane create, innovate and explore and leave the sane to sit in their offices counting numbers and selling their soul so they can go home and feed the mouths of their offspring for one more day. And insanity, for whatever humanity you posses, give their children the privilege to avoid normalcy so that they might enjoy life to its fullest.
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| Timmy Is Dead |
[01 Oct 2005|05:30am] |
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Yep that's right. That fiberwhatever the heck it was in my arm, has officially been surgically removed. I am now epidermoid-free and taking prescribed Lortab.... oh yeah.
The Good: I get to stare at stitches for two more weeks!
The Bad: That procedure took a lot out of me. I wanted to keep Timmy in a jar, and give him to Emily, but the doctor said it would be better if he kept Timmy (that greedy bastard!) and sent Timmy off to a lab fa fa away. :(
This weekend is party weekend. Don't really know if I'll be able to party too hard though.
I hope my band gets back together soon. I miss it.
I start school again next week. Overall, I did really good last quarter. I was only a couple of points away from getting a 4.0..... I could have, should have gotten A's across the board if I could draw humanoids a little bit better. Oh wells.
Why the heck am I awake at 5:25am??? Geez. I'm going to go watch some more about our Founding Fathers to fall asleep.
This past week has been great. One full week of relaxation. Too bad it couldn't have lasted forever.
I'll update again once I get back into the school groove next week.
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