Me & my

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My name is Janne Karhu and I'm a 23 years old physics student from Turku, Finland.
I've been engaged with my girlfriend Anna since the very end of 2002.
We have two cats called Puma and Nuti.
In the Blender community I'm known as jahka.

Education

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University of Turku 2003 -
Physics as major, additional studies in mathemathics and computer sciences.

Kastu natural sciences college 2000 - 2003

Work

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WWW Palvelu Saitti Oy 2001 - 2006

  • Varied work from domain configuration to website design (html, javascript, Perl)

Studio Mind Oy 2005 - 2007

  • User management system to a project for the City of Tampere (Flash, Perl)
  • Research (Perl,c++)
  • Web site techniques
  • Graphics creation

Interests

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Programming

  • Blender - Open source 3D graphics creation software.
    Coded:
    • Ongoing full rewrite of the particle system. (C)
    • Significant upgrade to the functionality of the particle system (included in official release 2.40) (C)
    • Sequencer plugin for optical flow calculation from image sequences (C++)
    • Sequencer plugin for chromakey foreground extraction and immersion to a new background (C++)
    • Script to simulate image based lighting (Python)
  • Neural networks and self organization
  • Physics simulation

Graphics

  • Image manipulation & drawing
  • Video editing and special effects
  • 3D graphics and animation
  • Panorama and HDRI creation/usage
  • Optical flow calculation/usage
  • Camera tracking
  • Inertial camera stabilization

Hobbies

  • Parkour
  • Badminton
  • Rollerscating

Computing Skills

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Programming: C, C++, Perl, Python, javascript, Flash Actionscript

Web: HTML, CSS, XML

Graphics: 2D & 3D graphics creation/editing with various software

General: Windows XP, Office applications, some Unix skills