Monthly Archives: July 2011

Making a histogram with canvas

28/07/11

A histogram is a very common tool used for editing photos, in photoshop and lightroom it gives users a quick view of how their photo’s values are distributed (some digital cameras also display a histogram). The image histogram actually just displays a graph of how many pixels with each value appear, usually split into all [...]

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Less bullshit, more hacking

20/07/11

One time at a boat show I met sailboat designer Tom Wylie, famous for the Wyliecat, an unusual boat design. I asked him what the theory behind the design was. Was it faster? More efficient? He answered: “less bullshit. more sailing”. Which is to say that it may not be the fastest or best (or [...]

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