Monday, December 04, 2006

Making Cartoons

I generally don't design anything since I am not a designer but thought of making a one of my friends cartoon "avtar" to put it on her scrap book. This idea clicked when one of my friend(Kevin Pinto) had done our cartoons for our web technology's project. The one on the right is his creation.

I started with hunting her photograph. Later used photoshop and opened the picture there. By adding transparent layer I traced the outline using a pencil tool. It did look shabby since it was just mouse that I used. But then had no choice. Later on of my friend gave me an idea of using bezier curves. But he used another tool for making such dough I was making it in photoshop. So later I googled for cartoons to see 1000 different creation. Later I started using simple line tool and then giving it different thickness and curves. I eliminated black colour border line and started using the those tones of the actual fill colours as the outer line. It worked the pieace was looking much neater and cool. I wasn't sure about the face looks since I still have to work on it. But the rest is fine I suppose. It was a real good experince in doing this.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Google Analytics

My final year project is on "Analysing Web Content through Users Clicks/Access Pattern". Once while surfing few fourms I found one intresting thing. What we were doing is analyzing the content of a particular website which would use this system. But Google has something which collects stats of other website also. One has to just use some browser side scripting software like greasemonkey or something like that. For more information please visit
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/008701.html

Google Desktop

Once while surfing I came across another Google's product. "Google Desktop" Just thought of downloading wow....it simply rooocks. It took me nearly 4 hours on AMD64 Athlon with 512 MB RAM for its indexing. But then it gives results as you type the word just like Winamp media center. Like grep command it scans the documents also which has text material in it. I am yet to find out how much memory it eats but as far as my messy comp is concern Google Desktop has really made me lazy. hehe