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Dan Maas, my best friend and partner. We ever co-work in Digimax on Quantum Quest. He is a RenderMan expert with excellent animation experience and knowledge. Last year, just after he graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business, he was planning his next business. It turns out in this year, 2012, that he succefully co-founded another company, SpinPunch. The following is my casual interview with Dan, about his idea behind, the new company, the ‘Starcraft in million browsers’ and his vision for future gaming. Enjoy it :) ...

如果說，LinkedIn 是個人的線上履歷，那邊 about.me 就是個人的線上名片了。 about.me 網站上，有很多設計得很好看且很有意思的個人名片 ，當我無聊時，會上去晃晃，看看這個資訊大爆炸，每個人看著這些名人 ，然後想像自己有天也跟著平步青雲的模樣。然後有天 about.me 就出現了，後來它甚至讓你可以非常容易地把線上名片實體化 。 ...

Colourwar is just like others, making a website doing user study to figure some meaningful or perceptual ideas for human beings, which can then be abstracted as some sort of mathematical forms (yes, I hear you are screaming the formulae) and then applied to get some interesting (and userful) apps. Right now, they have 2 testings: 1) gray, and 2) HDR.

HTML5 Word Cloud/文字雲 ，有趣的玩意兒。丟給它一個 rss feed，它會去挖出裏頭的文字出現頻率來，然後根據頻率大小，秀出不同大小的字來（我猜的，大概吧）。上圖是我把這個網站丟進去的結果 。 ...

從 gugod 的OSDC / RubyConf TW 2010 複習 得知了 3D Bookmarklet 這玩意兒，趕緊拿自己的網站來試試： 程式碼裏頭，有關 anaglyph 的部分如下： e.style.color='rgba(255,0,0,0.5)'+imp; e.style.textShadow=d+'px 0 0 rgba(0,255,192,0.5)'+imp; 如果能採用 Half Color Anaglyph 或是 Optimized Anaglyph 公式的話，然後是對整個畫面處理（包含 img, css 裏的 background image/color, color）等處理，那就更完美了 :) ...

來隨意聊聊，待在太極影音的研發工程師們，用了些什麼服務。隨手撿了四個太極研發部有在使用的 web services 拿來說說，隨意聊聊…… 根據 programming 有名的草根人物約耳（Joel Spolsky） 的一篇文章裏頭提到的，如果你要測試一個軟體團隊，可以使用他提出的 The Joel Test ，裏頭簡要地列出了 12 個是非題，受測者只需要回答 Yes / No 就可以得出當論來。 ...

3Dfier is a directshow filter that transforms normal video file to 3D in realtime. 3Dfier filer works with popular media players and support various video format as long as the files were played using direcshow. Here you can download demo versions for evaluation purpose. This demo version runs for around 10 minutes and support single mode only. We are happy to work with 3D display makers to customize a filter that works for the specifc display. Anaglyph is not the best way you can view 3D with 3Dfier filter but it is most easily available. 3Dfier works perfectly with side-by-side 3D Displays such as iZ3D monitor. We can also make it work with multi-view 3D Displays. Contact us for more information and partnership opportunity. ...

使用 RenderMan 的資訊人，比例相對來得少，我們很容易可以遇到一位使用 Java, C/C++, C#, PHP, Javascript, Perl, PHP 的程式人員，因應他們的需求而產生的 editor 也多如牛毛，幾乎可以說每一個月就有一個玩意兒被提出來供這些廣大的程式設計人員使用與把玩。 ...