Update on Living Image project

November 29th, 2006

This project has been going for a while, so I’ve decided to write a short overview of the results seen so far. If you don’t know what’s it about – The Living Image project is a website where anyone can vote for one or more digitally generated images. Those pictures are created by artificial neural […]

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Doing Clipping Manually

November 11th, 2006

Recently I was doing a PHP script that combines some images and needed to clip some of them to a specific rectangle. PHP doesn’t have a function to do that explicitly, and due to some technical restraints I couldn’t compose the required image in another buffer (which would let me to clip it implicitly). After […]

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CPU Artefacts

November 2nd, 2006

Have you noticed it says “(and some magic)” in the subtitle up above? Well, here’s some of that weirdness. A while ago I reasoned it would be interesting to make some artefacts (“amulets” or “talismans”, if you will) out of old computer processors. It’s a fairly widespread belief that crystals are useful for magical practices […]

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