Infinite Perfect Looping GiFs: Video Textures

Video Textures are derived from video by changing the order in which the recorded frames are played with qualities somewhere between those of a photograph and a video. A video texture provides a continuous infinitely varying stream of images. While the individual frames of a video texture may be repeated from time to time, the video sequence as a whole is never repeated exactly. Frames are played out of the original order only at places where it is unnoticeable for the viewer, thus using the finite duration input clip to generate a smoothly playing infinite video.

From the Jose Gonzalez video covering the song Heartbeats from The Knife, I selected one of the video sequences to generate a Video Texture. Don't mind the magic white rabbit ball.

Further ReadsVideo Textures, Arno Schdl, Richard Szeliski, David H. Salesin, and Irfan Essa July 2000

Math is understanding...

This is one of my favorite videos made about our limitations in general understanding. With the math and physics that have right now, it is possible to put a man in the moon, a robot on mars, have highly intelligent computers, self driving cars, etc. We have come a long way since we thought that the earth was flat.
With all those accomplishments and milestones in mathematics and physics, humanity is still missing many pieces of the puzzle in our understanding of numbers and even reality itself. The Continuum Hypothesis is one of those missing pieces. As today, it can not be proven to be truth, but also, can not be proven to false.  What a conundrum!

Queens Sunset

I took this picture from the train platform looking west towards the city. I wanted to capture the yellow and radiant sun, but believe or not, by the time I got my camera out of my backpack, the sun was already behind a building.

The most beautiful Lady in the planet.

March 18, 2015. A windy winter day, 320 meters above ground, in the Empire State Building, I took a picture of the most beautiful and wise woman in the planet, my Mother.

She's the first and only professional in her family. Mother of 4, completed her bachelor degree while pregnant of her third offspring, me. She is always trying to help people, always trying to make people laugh, always trying to give a good advice.
Mom, you are the best.

Introducing Woodman

I used a wooden mannequin as the protagonist of some of my photography experiments.   

The pale blue dot

One of the most profound and poetic takes on humanity's lack of perspective about our home, our only home.

Original Post @Zenpencils

Computational Photography results

Using a kernel 

$k = \left( \begin{array}{ccc}
-1 & -1 & -1 \\
-1 & 9 & -1 \\
-1 & -1 & -1 \\
\end{array} \right)$

Stumble upon a video of my online virtual-teachers at OMSCS

Let me describe to you how awesome this video is. Tuned on Michael Jackson's Thriller, composed by students and teachers sharing many tips and tricks related to data training over fitting. This is just amazing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMXDlNkYvU

Found a gem inside a gem

While playing Portal 2 community test chambers last weekend, I got queued to test named  12 Angry Tests Part 7, by an user named CaretCaret.
A very peculiar but not difficult test which I liked a lot. However, what caught my attention  me the most was not the test itself, but the ending. The author put a piece of a song that seemed appropriate for an ending.
The band name also that rang a bell in my head for some reason. And that is how I found about July Crisis.

Beef Cuts and recommended cooking methods

This infographic clarified so many things for me.

New Year's resolutions