I am extremely excited to announce the availability of AnVRopomotron, a project that I have been working on for the past semester. It is a WebVR site that allows you to experience the scale and shape of anthropological forms. Right now, there is a small collection of models I made… Read more“Introducing AnVRopomotron”
Tag: programming
Anthropomotron 2.0 is Here!
My ‘summer’ project has finally been finished, and I am proud to present Anthropomotron 2.0 to the world. I have been adding features since the end of April, both immediately visible and internal enhancements as my Javascript and XHTML/CSS have improved. The whole list of improvements is here, but in… Read more“Anthropomotron 2.0 is Here!”
Hood Ornaments
Besides the inner workings of Anthropomotron, I am also adding new features readily visible to anthropologists. Adult stature estimation gets some new neighbors as I add juvenile stature estimation and full body stature estimation. Juvenile stature estimation also turns long bone lengths to an estimated stature using findings from two… Read more“Hood Ornaments”
Under the Hood
Working two jobs eased out a lot of my prior free time in the evenings. I stopped playing WoW (at least until the next expansion), and I’ve had less time to work on my major hobby, which is currently Anthropomotron. It is not surprising then that I have made additions… Read more“Under the Hood”
Another Night of Coding Issues
I thought my Anthropomotron update troubles were over when I finally got it running the latest Phonegap, but as I tried to archive the app to upload to the App Store, it failed with an error message: “‘Cordova/CDVViewController.h’ file not found.” Looking around on the internet, it appears that this… Read more“Another Night of Coding Issues”
Slow and Steady Upgrades Win the Race
I’m getting ready to release Anthropomotron 1.5 so I’m taking care of the little details like making sure the internal software is up to date. I saw that since last time, Phonegap has jumped up a few version numbers so I made a goal of running my app with the… Read more“Slow and Steady Upgrades Win the Race”
I Solve Puzzles in My Spare Time
The Robbins and colleagues paper (2010) has an extremely detailed description of the intended use of their mass estimation formulae. One particular note became an unexpected challenge when I was adding their method to Anthropomotron. There are different formulae to use depending on the estimated age of the individual. Each… Read more“I Solve Puzzles in My Spare Time”
Day 2
Second day of working on Anthropomotron: spent four hours upgrading PhoneGap, the underpinnings of the app, from 1.8.0 to 2.2.0 (enough changes have been made from version to version that I have to inch up by tenths of version numbers). Ran into some difficulty but made a breakthrough so I… Read more“Day 2”
Anthropomotron is Back!
I am very happy to announce that I have completely remade Anthropomotron to be a modern web app. I first made Anthropomotron in 2004 using Apple’s Xcode and Applescript. Anthropomotron has not aged well as Apple basically left Applescript-based apps on the wayside, and oh yeah, the iPhone happened and… Read more“Anthropomotron is Back!”