Hey! I am Harsh Vardhan Tiwari, a first year Master’s student in Financial Engineering student, I am working on web scraping, which is a technique of writing code to extract data from the internet. There are several packages available for this purpose in various programming languages. I am am primarily using the Beautiful Soup 4 […]
Blog Post 2.0
Well, I am naming this as Blog Post 2.0, as there has been a serious revamping in terms of my project goals. Firstly, the work on 3D-modelling software is done. I will no longer be talking more about that. My whole focus will be on the data collection software, i.e. Suma. Oh wait, that’s off […]
App4Apis (Update)
Phase: Final stages of completion As we are going into the spring break, we want to the update the status of the project. Before diving into the details, a quick introduction of the project. App4Apis: A one stop solution to access APIs that are designed to take the parameters in the query and return a […]
Motivated Object-oriented programming: Build something from scratch!
This semester, I am putting together a 3D data visualization tool using Processing, to demonstrate the usefulness of this language for rapid prototyping of ideas for 3D graphics applications, including virtual reality. The code, documentation, and issue tracking are, as of recently, hosted on Github here. If you’ve ever taken a programming course or encountered an […]
Papal Documents Project Part #3 by Yanchen Liu
This post focuses on my work to digitize and transcribe Western MS 82, a major canon law text, describing some of the goals of this project as well as to indicate why this particular text should be of interest to the scholarly community and hence, why its introduction into broader circulation is particularly warranted. I […]
Knight Lab Timeline JS3, an easy to use multimedia timeline tool
TimelineJS is an easy to use timeline creator developed by Northwestern University’s Knight Lab. The timelines created with TimelineJS can include a variety of multimedia, are easily publishable and embedded in websites, and is generated on demand for the user. This means that a timeline can be updated after being published — a very useful […]
App4Apis (Pre-Alpha)
Phase: Pre-Alpha. A month from the last update and we are back with another blogpost to quickly update our status. We will start with a brief summary of our work and then the mandatory status update. What are we trying to do? With an increase in the data resources around the world and as most […]
OpenSCAD & SUMA updates (DCIP Blog Post 1.1)
As promised in the last blog post, here is a writeup about the “coding” based (amazing) 3D modelling software. OpenSCAD is a 3D modeling program based on constructive solid geometry (CSG), i.e. a complex surface or object can be created using Boolean operators to combine objects. There are some basic commands that one should know […]
Perceptual Bases for Virtual Reality: Part 1, Audio
An important part of creating a truly immersive VR experience is the accurate representation of sounds in space to the user. If a sound source is in motion in virtual space, it stands to reason that we ought to hear the sound source moving. One solution is to this problem is to use an array […]
Why Papal Documents? Post #2
As the first phase of my project of updating the Papal Documents: A Finding Aid is approaching the end, I discovered many possibilities of making this document a more elaborate and helpful tool for papal documents historians, European history scholars and all medievalists. However, before summarizing my work during the second phase of my project […]