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2018 XiSheng RC Extravaganza 西盛遙控飛行嘉年華
New Taipei RC Flying Extravaganza (西盛遙控飛行嘉年華會慶) organized by NTAMA (新北市航空模型協會) took place on Sunday, Nov 4th, 2018. It was joined by flying enthusiasts from all over Taiwan. I went with friends from the RC club from Kaohsiung 高雄市遙控運動協會, courtesy of 陳振國.
This article hosts pictures I took and edited of this event. Perhaps I’ll come back and finish it with additional descriptions. Perhaps I won’t. It exists for now as a place for enthusiasts to browse and download pictures I took of them, or their planes. I compiled two YouTube videos: a shorter one comprising video clips I took that day, as well as a longer slideshow highlighting some of the many exciting moments I captured in still pictures. As usual, some of the best pictures will eventually end up on Wikimedia. Continue reading
Posted in Being a Wikipedian, Fun, RC Planes, Travel
Tagged 3D Model Airplane, Boeing 747, Booth Babes, Bronze Tiger, Carf Eurosport, Change Fei, ChangFei, Dassault Rafale, Eagle ornithopter, Eurofighter Typhoon, Eva Air, 西盛遙控飛行嘉年華, 西盛遙控飛行機場, 西盛飛場, 高雄市遙控運動協會, F16 Fighting Falcon, F4U Corsair, F8F-2 Bearcat, Firecrackers, Flight Simulators, Fokker Triplane, Freewing Mirage 2000, Gee Bee, Kaohsiung, model airplane, New Taipei, NTAMA, ornithopter, P-47G Thunderbolt, P-51D Mustang, RC Flying Field, RC Flying Site, RC Turbine Jet, Reb Baron, sailplane, SBD-5 Dauntless, T-One Models, T1 Sport Jet, Tamsui, V2 Tiger Meet, XiSheng, XiSheng RC Extravaganza, Zero Fighter, 張菲, 新北市航空模型協會, 三重西盛環保公園
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NorCal for the model aeronautically-inclined
This is a guide and a preview to upcoming articles I’ll be publishing, on Northern California through the eyes of a New Yorker, with an inclination to see things from a model aeronautic perspective. It is similar to my model-aeronautic take on Ogunquit and its bipolar beach. Here I’ll examine various Napa Valley and Sonoma vineyards on their applicability to flying, while accompanied by my brother’s family. I’ll show you where to find legitimate flying fields manned by AMA chartered clubs, as well as secret flying places that fanatics frequent. We toured San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Half Moon Bay, Point Lobos, Fort Ord Dunes State Park and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Continue reading
Posted in Being a Wikipedian, Photography, RC Planes, Travel
Tagged 360° panoramic photos, AMA Chartered Clubs, Artesa Vineyards & Winery, Bay Area, beaches, Bigfin reef squid, birds, Black-crowned Night Heron, Blue Wing Inn, Castello di Amorosa, Common starling, Conservatory of Flowers, Daiso Clay, Din Tai Fung, drone, Flying Fields, Fort Ord Dunes State Park, Foster City, Fundemonium, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Gondola lift, Half Moon Bay, Inner Parkside, Kennedy Park, Lollipot, Metal Sculptures, mimetoliths, Mission San Francisco, Model airplanes, Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Napa Valley, Nightfall, NorCal, Northern California, oceanside bluffs, Peninsula Channel Commanders, Point Lobos, radio-controlled, sailplane, San Francisco, Sardine tank, Shells Dirt Jumps, Sonoma, St. Francis Winery & Vineyards, Sterling Vineyards, Sunset, T. rex, Tyrannosaurus rex, UMX Radian, Vineyards, West Coast RC Flyers, Western gull, Wine Country, Wine Tasting, Wineries
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What is a Doob 3D Selfie?
Last year my family visited the miniature park, Madurodam. We had ourselves scanned at the Fantasitron, and subsequently our 3D selfies printed by Shapeways. I was so impressed that I wrote an entire article about 3D scanning, stereophotogrammetry and gypsum-based 3D color printing. We have since found another venue for making 3D selfies, this time in New York City. The company, Doob, delivers an impeccable service, starting from the first moment we made an appointment online. This smooth and professional experience extends to email reminders, in-store consulting, and actual 3D scanning. It concludes with flawless 3D-printed figurines delivered to our house.
However, Doob as a company is rather secretive about its scanning process and 3D-reconstruction software. It is almost impossible to find any information about its 3D printing process. Unlike Madurodam and Shapeways, Doob offers no technical details on either its American website, or the English version of its main German website.
Hopefully this article will help answer some of most frequently-asked questions folks may raise, concerning Doob 3D selfies. If you come across this article, make sure you first read the one about Madurodam 3D selfies, to understand the basic concepts. Continue reading
Posted in Being a Wikipedian, Drawings and Paintings, Photography
Tagged 1:13 scale model, 3D Figurine, 3D photo booth, 3D Portraits, 3D printing, 3D Selfie, 4-inch model, acrylic varnish, Doob3D, Fantasitron, Full Color Sandstone, Gypsum, Madurodam, Mini-me, Shapeways, The Hague, Varnish
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3D selfies made in Fantasitron at Madurodam
Writing a computer program to map 2-dimensional drawings to 3-dimensional models had once been my obsession. This stemmed from the endless hours I spent drawing, by hand, orthographic projections of 3D models, and vice versa. While this was condemned as a chore universally by my classmates at Escuela Técnica No. 28 in Buenos Aires, I quite enjoyed it. After my family moved to New York, I no longer had to make these homework drawings. Instead I wrote a C program to generate 3D polyhedrons from 2D polygonal views. The long paper I wrote alongside this program won the gold medal at the New York Math Fair.
That seemed like a lifetime ago. In between then and now, algorithms had been invented to generate 3D models of people in color and with great details, all from simple 2D photos. But it is only in recent years that such technologies started to become commoditized. Just a month ago, Elisha and I stepped into, for a few seconds, a photo booth the size of a restroom, at the miniature park Madurodam. Three weeks later we received an exquisite 3D selfie printed by Shapeways.
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Tagged 1:20 scale model, 1:25 scale model, 3D Figurine, 3D photo booth, 3D Portraits, 3D printing, 3D Selfie, acrylic varnish, Amsterdam, Anne Frank Museum, Corsair, Fantasitron, Full Color Sandstone, Gypsum, Kasteel Nijenrode, Madurodam, Mini-me, Miniature Park, Miniature world, Muiden Castle, National Maritime Museum, Neverlands, Prinsengracht canal, Rijksmuseum, Shapeways, The Hague, Varnish
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Droning at and around Ogunquit Beach
This article is a part of the Ogunquit in September Guide I am writing, for the model aeronautically-inclined. It is the main and the last installment in the series. Together with the modern beach equipment installment, it details everything you will ever need, before you head out to fly a drone or two in this beautiful beach town. Continue reading
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Tagged 360° panoramic photos, Bald head Cliff, beach equipment, beaches, birds, Cape Neddick, Cliff House, Coast, Coastline, Drakes Island Beach, drone, Footbridge Beach, Gooch's Beach, Google Cardboard, great black-backed seagull, Kennebunkport, kites, Long Sands Beach, Main Beach, Maine, Marginal Way, Model airplanes, Moody Beach, Norsemen Resorts, North Beach, Ogunquit, Ogunquit beach, Perkins Cove, radio-controlled, Rock formations, sailplane, September, Short Sands Beach, Tidal Suites, UMX Radian, Wells, Wells Beach, York, York Beach
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Ocean Terrace Rooms at Cliff House
This article is a part of the Ogunquit in September Guide I am writing, for the model aeronautically-inclined. This installment is about the Ocean Terrace Rooms at Cliff House, near Ogunquit. We stayed at this place during the second leg of our trip. And I had a good time flying my model sailplane, while standing on perilous rock formations, with multi-person-tall waves pounding on these same rocks.
We called the booking service of the hotel directly when making our room reservation. The agent convinced me to book a room at the highest floor available, for it afforded the best view of both the ocean and the cliff, despite its higher room rate. But I read afterwards on TripAdvisor that some of the rooms on the higher floors actually had balconies with partially blocked views. Some rooms were situated directly behind other buildings, so they looked over ugly rooftops instead of the ocean and the cliff.
I agonized over this issue before the trip. The uncertainties tortured me. There wasn’t much useful information and pictures to be found online, to ease my mind.
Those who have read the previous article on Tidal Rooms at the Norseman can be forgiven for thinking that I have the buyer’s remorse syndrome as a chronic condition. This article is born after the trip, partly because I am anal, and partly because I want to help the next guy in my situation.
If you landed on this article during your research for a room at the Cliff House, then you have found the right resource. Most of pictures showcased here are taken by Elisha Huang.
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Posted in Being a Wikipedian, Gourmet, Photography, Travel
Tagged Bald head Cliff, Cliff, Cliff House, filet mignon, Model airplanes, model sailplanes, mussel pot, mussels, Ocean Terrace Rooms, Oceanfront, Ogunquit, radio-controlled model airplanes, Rock formations, UMX Radian, waterfront
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Tidal Suites at the Norseman Resort on Ogunquit Beach
This article is a part of the Ogunquit in September Guide I am writing, for the model aeronautically-inclined. This installment is about the Tidal Suites at Norseman Resort we stayed at, during the first part of the trip. As is usually the case, I spent time writing this article after the trip, because I wished someone had written something about this topic, and had posted some pictures of this place online. It would have helped me tremendously during my trip planning. And it would have eased the anxiety I continued to feel until the day of departure. But there was very little information to be found online about the resort, and almost nothing about the new Tidal Suites. Continue reading
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Tagged 360° panoramic photos, Equirectangular panorama, great black-backed gull, High tide, juvenile seagull, Kayaking, Low tide, Marginal Way, Norseman on the Beach, Norseman Resort, Norseman Resorts, Ogunquit beach, Ogunquit River, private deck, private parking space, river bed, river delta, Room, roomscale, seagulls, Tidal river, Tidal Suites
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Modern beach equipment for the model aeronautically-inclined
This article is a part of the Ogunquit in September Guide I am writing, for the model aeronautically-inclined. Obviously, those who enjoy flying radio-controlled planes at a beach will find this article useful. But I am also certain that any modern man or woman planning a trip to the beach will not want to miss this one.
I know it, because I’ve spent countless nights before the trip googling for the best beach equipment to bring, to no avail. If you are looking for novel contraptions that solve known problems with ancient beach equipment technology, you will not be happy with what you find online today. Even Google isn’t smart enough to weed out hastily-assembled, so called “top ten beach equipment” websites that simply scout Amazon for highest-ranking sales. YouTube is full of computer-generated videos with screenshots stole from above-mentioned “top ten beach equipment” websites. And most search engines nowadays only want to show you online shops, because… that’s how they make money. This leaves old fashioned research work as the only option. I read and combed through tons of user reviews, and wrote notes. The trip proved that I did find the right beach equipment to buy.
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Tagged Beach Chair, Beach Lounger, Beach tent, Beach Umbrellas, Collapsible Beach Cart, Collapsible Beach Wagon, Folding Beach Cart, Folding Beach Wagon, kites, Model airplanes, model sailplanes, Ogunquit, Ogunquit beach, Ollieroo Folding Beach Wagon, Pacific Breeze Beach Lounger, Pacific Breeze Sand & Surf Beach Shelter, September, Sport-Brella Versa-Brella, UMX Radian, Versa-Brella beach umbrella by Sport-Brella
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Ogunquit in September – for the model aeronautically-inclined
This is a guide to upcoming articles I will be publishing, on Ogunquit, a small town at the southern tip of Maine. The guide serves as a preview to these articles, before they are written and published, showing this beautiful river, the town and the beach named after it, in September. This was when kids had to leave the beach, to go back to school, and just before the autumn arrived in full force. Some articles will explore the Marginal Way, Perkins Cove, Cape Neddick, York, Wells, Kennebunkport and plenty of public beaches in the area. Some will focus on hotels we’ve stayed at – the Tidal Suites at the Norsemen and the Cliff House at Bald Head Cliff.
I’ve also brought the current obsession of my life together with travel and videography. Most of these articles will be of interest to those who are model aeronautically-inclined. While I did not have room to bring big model airplanes, I did pack two micro airplanes and a variety of kites. While flying a sailplane on the peaceful and expansive Ogunquit Beach proved to be a relaxing pastime, fighting the precarious Bald Head Cliff in inclement weather against a stormy sea turned out to be quite challenging.
Did I mention that I adopted a pet seagull during this trip?
Pictures I’ve taken on a meager iPhone will be culled in time, and the remaining usable and useful ones uploaded to Wikipedia for illustrations on various relevant articles, continuing my series of Wiki Vacations (from here and there). Continue reading
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Tagged 360° panoramic photos, Bald head Cliff, beach equipment, beaches, birds, Cape Neddick, Cliff House, drone, Google Cardboard, great black-backed seagull, Kennebunkport, kites, Maine, Marginal Way, Model airplanes, Norsemen Resorts, Ogunquit, Perkins Cove, radio-controlled, sailplane, September, Tidal Suites, UMX Radian, Wells, York
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Restaurants – Sarasota wiki vacation part 5
This is part five of the Sarasota Wiki Vacation series. This trip to the Sarasota barrier islands yielded a large number of pictures which I’ve added to various Wikipedia articles. The unusually-long post I wrote became too long and unfocused. It is about 90 pages long. I am now breaking it up into specific posts by location and theme.
This one is about restaurants we we stumbled upon in this trip. I loved them, and their food. In the order we visited them: Mar Vista, Phillippi Creek Oyster Bar and Ophelia’s on the Bay. Continue reading
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Tagged Ana Maria, Beach, Dolphin, food, Gourmet, Kodak Moment, Longboat Key, osprey, Panorama, photos, restaurants, Sarasota, Sarasota Bay, Sarasota Keys, seagulls, seared tuna, Shucking, Siesta Beach, Siesta Key, Steamed Oyster, stone crab, Sunset, Travel pictures, Turtle Beach, White Sand Beach, Wiki Vacation
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