Michael Marner's Website

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Back in a bit

I'm migrating my website to Ghost. While static site generators like Gatsby are great, I really wanted comments back, and really like the more casual nature of just typing into a web page. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to mass migrate Gatsby

Generating wordclouds from massive PDF libraries

Generating wordclouds from massive PDF libraries

My friend Dani posed an interesting question on Twitter yesterday: Research pals, esp. those that use #zotero - do you know if there is a way I can visualise data from my library, e.g. word clouds? Paperplanes plugin no longer exists :( what I'd really like to do

Improving Flutter's iOS build times on CI

Improving Flutter's iOS build times on CI

We shave 12 minutes off our mobile app build pipeline.

Taken on the road to Cusco

Remote Redux Debugging in Flutter

I really like Flutter, and I like using Redux when building mobile apps. There’s a great Redux implementation for Dart and Flutter, and a time travel capable debug store. The Javascript world is spoilt with the fantastic Redux DevTools plugin. It allows you to inspect actions and application state

Augmented Reality

We The Unseen

I worked for South Australia’s youth circus organisation Cirkidz on their production We The Unseen. Using the same 3D projection mapping technology I developed at UniSA and expanding from the work I did with Half Real, we built several interactive projection based special effects to compliment the performance. Let’

Syntho: A Web Audio Synthesizer

Syntho: A Web Audio Synthesizer

Syntho is a Korg Volca Bass inspired synthesizer I created using Javascript and the new web-audio API.

Half Real: An Interactive, Projected World

Augmented Reality

Half Real: An Interactive, Projected World

Half Real was a live action, interactive theatre production I worked on with The Border Project back in 2011. A case study article on Half Real was published at the 2012 ISMAR conference. This post is a more human readable summary of my work. Half Real is based on a

I'm in South America

I'm in South America

No writing for a bit because I’m currently travelling around South America! I’ll be visiting Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. We are writing about our trip over at ummthatway.com if you are interested in what we are up to. Regular programming returns June. Cheers!

An Interactive Projection-Mapped Graffiti Wall

Augmented Reality

An Interactive Projection-Mapped Graffiti Wall

This post explains how I built a projection mapped, interactive graffiti wall for If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It. This was built in collaboration with Lachlan Tetlow-Stewart. First, here’s a video of the end result: Let’s break down the project. * Multi projector,

FTGL on MacOS

Make FTGL work on MacOS again!

Sending & Receiving SMS on Linux

Sending & Receiving SMS on Linux

A little while ago I worked on a mixed media theatre production called If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It. As part of this production I needed to build a system that could send and receive SMS messages from audience members. Today we’re looking

Dr. Michael Marner, PhD

Dr. Michael Marner, PhD

My PhD is finally finished! I graduated at the end of August, 2013. Please have a look at my thesis if spatial augmented reality is of interest to you. Thanks to my supervisor, Professor Bruce Thomas, associate supervisor, Dr. Christian Sandor, my reviewers, Professors Greg Welch and Henry Gardner, my

Tiled Projector Calibration

Here’s a quick post to show off the tiled projector display calibration I have implemented. Please note: I did not invent this! What you see is more or less an implementation of the algorithm described here: O. Bimber and R. Raskar, Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds.

Kinect on Ubuntu with OpenNI

How to interface with the Microsoft Kinect on Linux.

OpenSceneGraph, Dual Screens and TwinView

Build dual screen apps with Open Scene Graph.