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A-frame adventures

I started messing around with A-frame for work, but now I am developing in my own time. Slowly over time My work became my play, and my cells became cancerous. So I got that tumor sucked out of my skull and a heap of MRI data to play with! Also I started a Patreon with my bosses at work, and it's slowly been picking up steam! The fightertest example there is a project that myself and three other engineers are playing with. I am making the game I have always wanted, a bridge simulator bursting with character that you can experience with your friends! If you'd like to see some cool art and come along for the ride, please check us out at our Patreon page. 3Dscans FighterTest brainframe All of these are really awesome viewed full size on your phone. Cause you can put them in AR mode! I made a website tutorial on how to make stuff like this. Check it out here! https://how2ar.carrd.co/

Slippery circles: Vuforia, Tee Shirts, and computers being picky.

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Recently, I was tasked with producing a graphic for a shirt that would be visible with Vuforia, and have an augmented reality game overlayed on top of it. This is all fine and good, except the logo that I made for my company earlier looks like this. Glimmer Technologies in some of its splendor. So this image tracks well when evaluated by the Vuforia algorithm. From one to five, it's a four. It does this by making a greyscale image and finding unique contrast points in the image like so. Now, this presents some issues for a teeshirt. We were getting these shirts screen printed which means they have to lay down one color at a time. Moreover, screens cannot print in a gradient, unless that gradient is produced in halftones. This is a crappy quality image of the awesome work that Threadbare did printing our logo. They had to send our logo to a guy to make a color separation, which then could be fed into their machines which can make halftoned screens of each color. ...