I think the uniform color of the floor may have confused Auto Awesome. I plan to take another shot at it, this time with some other objects in the foreground, colorful objects that make them look different from the floor. Stay tuned!
Showing posts with label Google Awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Awesome. Show all posts
14 January 2014
NOT AWESOME
Last year, I discovered the joy of Google Auto Awesome, http://www.qaptainqwerty.com/2013/07/google-auto-awesome-is-awesome.html . The idea is simple enough. Take a series of photos of a scene and Goolge Photo intelligently recognizes the moving elements and the still background to cobble together a nifty animated GIF, or a mini movie. As the name suggests, the work is done automatically. It seemed to be a great idea and I made a few such "animations" but my latest attempt failed. The animGIF below was not made by Google Auto Awesome but instead was done on my Mac laptop using GIFfun. I took a series of photos, which I think show my mini-me, in CubeeCraft form, running in a circle. Admittedly the background is not constant, but it looks pretty much the same from frame to frame. Only to me, as it turned out, and not to Auto Awesome. Awesome takes its sweet time to make the anim so at first I thought it would be just a matter of time. Maybe I have too many photos and it takes time to scan them and auto-detect the animation. I took the photos one night before going to bed. The next morning, still no anim from the photos. I waited a few hours then gave up and made the animGIF with GIFfun, which I got for free off the Stone Design web site, http://www.stone.com/GIFfun/ . Thank you, Stone!
I think the uniform color of the floor may have confused Auto Awesome. I plan to take another shot at it, this time with some other objects in the foreground, colorful objects that make them look different from the floor. Stay tuned!
I think the uniform color of the floor may have confused Auto Awesome. I plan to take another shot at it, this time with some other objects in the foreground, colorful objects that make them look different from the floor. Stay tuned!
29 December 2013
SCENE FROM A RUN: FUHGEDDABOUTIT!
I love that sign on the border of Queens and Brooklyn on the Belt Parkway. It says "Leaving Brooklyn, Fuhgeddaboutit". There is another sign just like it on the Belt Parkway on the ramp to the Verrazano Bridge, but it is not accessible to pedestrian, or anyone for that matter. You just drive by that one as you head for Staten Island, unless you want to drive onto the grass and attract unwanted attention from any nearby police cruiser. The one near Queens, on the other hand, is easily reached if you don't mind the trip on bike or on foot. I visited it some time ago on bike and took some selfies with a camera, not with a smartphone as I didn't have one back then. The result was not too satisfactory. This past summer I tried to run there but it got too hot I had to stop at Canarsie Pier to get drinks and then headed back. I didn't even run all the way back, but rather get to Avenue U to get another cold drink then climbed onto a bus to get home. I don't like to spend money or gasoline while on runs, but that day I made the exception.
Recently I also made exception for really early morning runs with my running partner. J needs to put in some long miles for his marathon in February and like me he has family duties to attend to so we agree to run really early, like 6 AM. We normally meet in Marine Park or Sheepshead Bay and neither place is easily accessible by public transit. And I don't want to run there since I want to save the energy for the long run. So I drove.
For today's run, our goal was to log 15 miles total. I did mention running to the Fuhgeddaboutit sign at the Queens border, but it would overdo the goal. So we agreed to go 7.5 miles out along the Belt Parkway, which for sure would put us short of the sign, then 7.5 miles back to our cars. Still, when we got 7.5 miles done, the sign was not that far away. J was a good sport and agreed to go there anyway, we would just walk part of the way back. We lost a few minutes posing with the sign, J with a scowling face supposedly as a Brooklyn 'tude, while I had him take a few shots of me throwing my arms forward, for Google Awesome to auto-convert into an animated GIF. It was supposed to be as if I was saying "Fuhgeddaboutit" but it looks more like I was imitating swimming. I love it nonetheless and hope you do too!
Recently I also made exception for really early morning runs with my running partner. J needs to put in some long miles for his marathon in February and like me he has family duties to attend to so we agree to run really early, like 6 AM. We normally meet in Marine Park or Sheepshead Bay and neither place is easily accessible by public transit. And I don't want to run there since I want to save the energy for the long run. So I drove.
For today's run, our goal was to log 15 miles total. I did mention running to the Fuhgeddaboutit sign at the Queens border, but it would overdo the goal. So we agreed to go 7.5 miles out along the Belt Parkway, which for sure would put us short of the sign, then 7.5 miles back to our cars. Still, when we got 7.5 miles done, the sign was not that far away. J was a good sport and agreed to go there anyway, we would just walk part of the way back. We lost a few minutes posing with the sign, J with a scowling face supposedly as a Brooklyn 'tude, while I had him take a few shots of me throwing my arms forward, for Google Awesome to auto-convert into an animated GIF. It was supposed to be as if I was saying "Fuhgeddaboutit" but it looks more like I was imitating swimming. I love it nonetheless and hope you do too!
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