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stuff by antimatter15

Hi. I’m Kevin Kwok, and I’m currently a junior at MIT, and this is my obligatory online presence or whatever.

This is my little corner of the internet, where I talk about random projects and ideas and stuff.

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extension extension

Project Naptha

highlight, copy and translate text from any image

Cloud Save

one click save to any cloud storage locker

Surplus

Google+ notifications integration with Google Chrome

Drag2Up

drag and drop files from your desktop onto any text field to automatically upload and share

Project Wikify

edit any website and share changes

Offline Dictionary

look up words and definitions on Wiktionary

Chromecorder

create screencasts and export them as WebM or a single compressed PNG

ExFM Extras

an extension to an extension to read ID3v2 metadata when importing music

Swipe Gesture

multitouch gestures for chromebook and windows

library library

ocrad.js

optical character recognition in javascript with emscripten

inpaint.js

erase regions and objects from pictures in javascript

phash.js

perceptual hashing for content-based image retrieval in javascript

scratchpad

simple cross browser scratchpad used by Khan Academy

jsgif

a port of AS3GIF to generate animated gifs entirely in the browser

jsvectoreditor

cross browser vector graphics editor powered by RaphaelJS

bzip2.js

a port of some bzip2 decompressor to javascript

Whammy

a real time intraframe WebM encoder in javascript

Weppy

lightweight polyfill for WebP images in modern browsers today

JS ID3v2

a javascript library for reading ID3 tags from MP3 files

HeapQueue.JS

a simple priority queue in javascript

vX.JS

a javascript library that favors size over clarity

hqx.js

pixel art scaling in the browser

web app web app

Ajax Animator

create and share animations in the browser

stick2

a simple skeleton based stop-motion stick figure animator

Protobowl

real time multiplayer quizbowl game

Offline Wiki

browse the full text of wikipedia offline

player

probably the first browser based mp3 player which could load local files

Wave Reader

publish waves to the web with anonymous commenting and embedded gadgets

desktop app desktop app

forkswif

a simple prototype of an swf authoring tool in C# based on swfmill and svgpaint

prototype prototype

ShinyTouch

zero-cost optical touchscreen retrofit

chrome app chrome app

CloudFall

sublime-like text editor with dropbox sync

MusicAlpha

reverse-engineered Google Music uploader

art art

Icosahedron

contrary to popular belief, this is in fact not a dodecahedron

Droste Dorm

a poster on my wall, of my wall, featuring a particular poster

Pedant

augmented reality for your feet

LIFX + Music

moozik

Facebook Clock

visualizing when friends are active on facebook

Planck

coloring planck cmbr like wmap

Brass Doge

wow such ring. very mit. many class.

Lasers

light amplitude and stimulated emission of hashtag yolo party awesomeness

iot iot

Dorm Weather

the art of collecting data and totally forgetting about it

Auto Scan

automatically scan documents on lid close using arduino

Alarm/Bed

yeah. okay.

school school

Gestures

A light pen gesture recognizer inspired by Palm's Graffiti

Schedule Compare

discover classmates automatically by parsing facebook status updates

Invisible Motion

Real Time Eulerian Video Magnification in HTML5

blog blog

H.264 vs VP8

the (mostly wrong) ambiguity of "open" and video codecs

wave wave

Microwave

mobile-friendly google wave client

Wave Embed API

an unofficial api for embedding google wave threads as blog comments

Tsunami

a gadget that crashes google wave

Word Association

a simple wave gadget for collaboratively building simple mindmaps

Awesomeness

a prototype of a federated real-time hierarchical messaging system

game game

Comet RPG

an online multiplayer rpg from middle school

Pinball

a simple pinball game

gravity

a simple game with attractors

experiment experiment

Chat Bot

turing complete collatz tag code over facebook chat

Activity Plot

a small experiment graphing historical profile information

Pandora's Box

modifying the anesidora client to save pandora tracks offline

SubleqVM

subleq vm memory visualizer

distributed pi

compute pi with bpf algorithm