Pehr Hovey

Digital Humanities book cover

Thursday, September 10th, 2015

A shot from the Dewey Calendar data visualization was recently featured on the cover of a new book from Cambridge University Press – The Digital Humanities: A Primer for Students and Scholars by Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto. Read more about the book at Cambridge Press.

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El-Tee-See: Make SMPTE timecode wav file

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Because the (entertainment) world needs it – here is a simple service for generating SMPTE (LTC) timecode as a wave file. http://elteesee.pehrhovey.net It supports several sample rates and bit depth for your sync’ing pleasure. Feedback welcome.

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Timelapse image compositing with Ruby

Friday, July 5th, 2013

I took a few hundred timelapse pictures of 4th of July fireworks from my rooftop in Highland Park, Los Angeles over the course of three hours. Instead of immediately making a video I decided to experiment with image compositing using RMagick (Ruby bindings to ImageMagick). Blenderrr is a script that uses RMagick with the Lighten [...]

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Glowing Photobooth Props

Friday, May 17th, 2013

A hedge trimmer and Rubber glove were augmented to give guests the power to control a photobooth camera. Each prop glows thematically when activated, and triggers the Sony NEX-5 camera with an infrared LED. The Obelisk returns as the all-seeing-eye for the photobooth operation. It glows ominously while the camera activates.

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