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Miscellaneous ramblings

HDR Imaging – Qtpfsgui – Surf

I’ve had the pleasure of owning a Nikon d80 for the last two months and have only recently started playing around with the advanced image post-processing techniques like HDR which have interested me for so long. Unsurprisingly, HDR (High Dynamic … Continue reading

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A Lesson in Common Sense

Today I finished up at class and I went to the computer labs to do some printing. Every now and then, left-behinds are found on, in and around the workstations. Rarely are they as interesting as the one I found … Continue reading

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Lefty-Loosy, or Righty-Tighty?

According to this article, viewing this spinning image can tell you which side of your brain dominates your cranial activity. Do you see the image spinning clockwise or anticlockwise? I see the image spinning clockwise, but I can’t say that … Continue reading

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Image resizing using energy paths

It’s good to be subscribed to lots of different mailing lists, just for the absolutely wonderful pockets of air which exist around all the traffic. On the kde-imaging mailing list there was a thread about image resizing algorithms. My interest … Continue reading

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Fingers… Burning…

I’ve been playing way too much of Frets on Fire lately. If hacking becomes too much, just lift up your keyboard and use it as a guitar and thrash it! Infact, I’m enjoying it so much that I’ve stopped rebooting … Continue reading

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