Comments on: Winter Senior Project Faire coolness http://www.makingstuff.org/winter-senior-project-faire-coolness Creating things Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Steve http://www.makingstuff.org/winter-senior-project-faire-coolness#comment-330 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:52:00 +0000 http://www.makingstuff.org/winter-senior-project-faire-coolness#comment-330 No good link for Atlas yet (we haven't built any sort of documentation for it, although I've got at least some PDF summary-type stuff that I'll post in the near future), but I'll bring a demo to the first meeting this quarter for anyone interesting in checking it out. The whole codebase is *really* proof-of-concept more than anything, but it's fun to look at. :-) Re: photos.stanford, the interface is surprisingly simple--I didn't play with it much, but IIRC you can upload images (essentially one at a time, I think :-( ), and it will automatically thumbnail them (note--would be interesting to see if they're really thumbnailing behind the scenes, or simply setting IMG tags to make it smaller...) and display a gallery. It does include some sort of category/commenting option, permalinks, and privacy controls of some sort. My biggest question about this would be how it compares with existing software--I'd imagine that there are free open-source apps out there right now that do this; how is photos.stanford different? The key difference I see is SUNet Auth integration (re: privacy settings). I would imagine that it is less stable that necessary for a production app--at least, that's the trend with most senior projects--but definitely worth looking into. No good link for Atlas yet (we haven’t built any sort of documentation for it, although I’ve got at least some PDF summary-type stuff that I’ll post in the near future), but I’ll bring a demo to the first meeting this quarter for anyone interesting in checking it out. The whole codebase is *really* proof-of-concept more than anything, but it’s fun to look at. :-)

Re: photos.stanford, the interface is surprisingly simple–I didn’t play with it much, but IIRC you can upload images (essentially one at a time, I think :-( ), and it will automatically thumbnail them (note–would be interesting to see if they’re really thumbnailing behind the scenes, or simply setting IMG tags to make it smaller…) and display a gallery. It does include some sort of category/commenting option, permalinks, and privacy controls of some sort.

My biggest question about this would be how it compares with existing software–I’d imagine that there are free open-source apps out there right now that do this; how is photos.stanford different? The key difference I see is SUNet Auth integration (re: privacy settings). I would imagine that it is less stable that necessary for a production app–at least, that’s the trend with most senior projects–but definitely worth looking into.

]]> by: Bob http://www.makingstuff.org/winter-senior-project-faire-coolness#comment-329 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:13:44 +0000 http://www.makingstuff.org/winter-senior-project-faire-coolness#comment-329 I can't access photos.stanford, but my hunch would be that any photo application worthy of a senior CS project is too complex for most end users. For groups, I'm currently thinking of a system that simply displays all the images in a given folder. No manipulation, no categories, just thumbnails linked to images. Can someone who's seen the photos.stanford app describe it a little more? I can’t access photos.stanford, but my hunch would be that any photo application worthy of a senior CS project is too complex for most end users.

For groups, I’m currently thinking of a system that simply displays all the images in a given folder. No manipulation, no categories, just thumbnails linked to images.

Can someone who’s seen the photos.stanford app describe it a little more?

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