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Computer graphics is basically a simulation of our eyes, of creating a scene where our eyes will be, even (or especially) if the scene is imaginary. I’m going to touch a little bit on viewports. Think of viewports as surfaces where the scene is displayed. Your television screen or an application window on your computer [...]
My favourite image editing software, Paint.NET, just got upgraded to version 3.2. There are quite a few changes, and the most striking ones for me are the reorganisation of the “Effect” menu and the addition of Julia and Mandelbrot fractals.
Now, all the special effects are categorised into the following
Artistic
Blurs
Distort
Noise
Photo
Render
Stylize
The two fractal generation effects are in [...]
I’ve been experimenting with doing some simple image post processing for my posts. Rectangular images with sharp right-angled corners look a bit stark. I’m getting most of the images from iStockphoto (referral link), and it seemed a waste if I didn’t fit photos and text together nicely.
The easiest and fastest way to spruce up [...]
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I just recently discovered that I can enable ClearType in Windows XP. For a long time, I thought Coding Horror just looked terrible on Firefox, but rendered fine on Internet Explorer. I couldn’t find the reason, and I just thought it was some CSS issue or something.
Then I read somewhere [...]
I remember a time when I didn’t have any image editing software available on my computer, and I needed to create some images for my web site. The image editing software I knew then were Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro (formerly from Jasc). I was a student then, and cash was tight, and [...]
