Category: Culture

Panorama of the Philea Temple in Egypt

Back in the 90’s I visited Egypt and create VR Panormas from many temples. The technology to stitch pictures into a panorama has developed dramatically since then. I decided to dig out my archived source images and re-created the VR tour of Philea, this time in high quality. Try out the full screen option! Continue reading “Panorama of the Philea Temple in Egypt”

CHI2009 Ribbons

For the CHI2009 conference, we prepared unofficial ribbons and distributed them amongst the attendees. We were inspired by Brad Myers collection of CHI conference badges and ribbons. All of our 400 ribbons were gone at the end of the conference and a photo of the table on which the ribbons were presented was shown during the closing session’s slide show. It was just great fun. Below you see my conference badge and I found a few other pictures [picture1, picture2].

The unofficial CHI2009 ribbons
The unofficial CHI2009 ribbons

University Ranking: Netherlands vs. Germany

The Times Higher Education Ranking 2008 has been published and could not help noticing that Germany and Netherlands have both 11 universities in the top 200. That is 57% of the Dutch Universities and only 2% of the German Universities. Sometimes quality beats quantity. The Germany magazine “Der Spiegel” summarizes Germany’s disappointment over this result, since the government had recently pored 1.900.000.000 Euro into the “Elite” universities.