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  1. AdamStanislav
    Oh gosh, please, no! Or at least make it optional.
  2. AdamStanislav
    Perhaps it is just that people may have cultural differences in what they consider humorous. That may also be compounded with the difficulty of understanding subtlety in a language not one’s own.
  3. AdamStanislav
    Whose?
  4. AdamStanislav
    What extra cost? BMP is a very simple format, much simpler than JPG, PNG, TIFF, and others that are supported. It is just a simple header followed by raw data. Any junior programmer can whip up the code in no time. That is why it is supported by just about all graphics software.
  5. AdamStanislav
    Where are the beautiful days? Where are the sleigh rides till dawn? Where are the tender moments of splendor, where have they gone? Because I had to move due to a fire making our building uninhabitable, I am actually finding many things I forgot I had (and cannot find things I know I have). One of them was a photograph of me and of a friend from our visit to a TV station. That was in 1993, when I was 43. I scanned a small part of the picture at 2400 ppi and 48 bpp to an uncompressed TIFF using my Epson V750 Pro scanner. The result had many blemishes, so I cleaned the scanner glass with compressed air (the scanner had been inside a storage place ever since the fire until now) and took several other scans. That helped, but there was still a dust hole in the scan, plus two scratches. I opened the result in Affinity Photo and applied Filters/Noise/Dust & Scratches... That removed the dust very nicely, but there still were two scratches. They were on the shirt, so it would not be the end of the world if I could not remove them. But I noticed AP has a Blemish Removal Tool. I used it on the two scratches. At first it just broke the scratches into smaller pieces and moved those around, but eventually it removed the scratches altogether. The result looks pretty good, especially considering it is a scan of a small region of a photo print for which I do not have the negative. I exported it to another TIFF, and also to JPG with both, the height and the width, reduced to 50%: But yes, where are the beautiful days? Why do we have to get old?
  6. AdamStanislav
    We’re certainly not vegetables. Well, most of us.
  7. AdamStanislav
    What Linux API calls? Years ago I looked into X trying to convert my Windows software to it, and was only frustrated because there was no official API. There is a zillion of third party systems that are so complicated that trying to figure them out would be a waste of my time, so nowadays I just write libraries of video effects (but no one seems to know they even exist) but without any GUI except for Windows.
  8. AdamStanislav
    And again, as I said on YouTube, Very nice, indeed.
  9. AdamStanislav
    But you can can create and save your own palettes. You can even export them and let the rest of us import them. Plenty of palettes exist on this forum, too.
  10. AdamStanislav
    As I said on YouTube, nice work.
  11. AdamStanislav
    Very nice.
  12. AdamStanislav
    Very impressive work.
  13. AdamStanislav
    Always will be.
  14. AdamStanislav
    And for many others. BMP is about the simplest image format in existence, just a header followed by essentially raw pixel data. It is not perfect, but so simple it has been the default format of a lot of software for decades.
  15. AdamStanislav
    Oh, nothing wrong with the picture. It is my eyesight that is not as sharp as it used to be. I am 72, with diabetes, and even some cataracts. Last time I went for my annual eye exam, I ended up with lenses several times stronger than in my previous prescription.
  16. AdamStanislav
    Thanks, @Alfred. Sadly, my eyesight isn’t what it used to be.
  17. AdamStanislav
    King of what country?
  18. AdamStanislav
    But how many seasons would I have to go to to know what is going on? And besides, I prefer doing other things than watching TV. I am 72, I still have too many projects to finish.
  19. AdamStanislav
    Alas, my antenna is not strong enough to receive TV signal from the other side of the Atlantic (all I get is a single station, which happens to be an NBC affiliate), so I just assumed it was, indeed, about the doctor who inspired poster design. And besides, I have hard time understanding the variety of pronunciation of English that Professor Higgins was so unhappy about. I actually got a phone call from a Serif salesman and I had absolutely no idea what he was trying to sell me. English is my fifth language, and the way we were taught English seems to be ony spoken by Oxford professors. When I first came to America, someone was watching an English comedian (his name was something like Benny Hill?), and I had no idea what he was saying. I studied in Rome, where my medical doctor was an English lady and, again, I did not understand her. I had to bring along an American to just repeat whatever she was saying, and then I understood. Last but not least, when I saw the first Harry Potter movie, I had to turn on the English subtitles so I could understand the Hogwarts students (except Harry and Hermione, whom I understood), though the professors were mostly easy to understand. Of course, to be fair, my first Summer in the US, they interviewed a Texas farmer on TV asking him about the drought and I could not understand him at all.
  20. AdamStanislav
    You mean that is not the case?
  21. AdamStanislav
    Yes, that is the main difference. I think it is a tragedy that decades ago Adobe chose Times as the default font in the PostScript, which led to myriads of poorly designed book texts. Times is a newspaper typeface. It was specifically designed for the use in newspaper columns, to allow Times of London to cram up more text on their front page. And it works well for that purpose because newspaper columns are much less wide than book pages, so they eye does not have to travel as far from left to right. In reading a book, however, the eye has to travel a longer distance, so the text uses wider faces, larger point size and more white space between the lines (or at least it did in the books set before Adobe made Times the default and Microsoft nerds followed suit without even understanding what they were doing).
  22. AdamStanislav
    I am not sure if I never mentioned on this forum what a kruhotvar is, but it is a very specific type of circular repetition of something simple. They have originally been 2D objects that have always started as a very simple shape drawn in Affinity Designer, exported to SVG, and then hand-processed by yours truly. This week I have been toying with the idea of converting them into 3D objects (because I have ordered a Prusa 3D printer and it is expected to ship this coming week, not my first 3D printer but should be the first one that actually works unlike the Ender-5 junk that I have had for a few years). I wrote a routine that writes a script for OpenSCAD to convert the above-mentioned simple shape to a 3D object. It can do it in a number of ways, based on some parameters processed by my routine. Ads an example, this morning I sketched this non-assuming shape using the pen tool of AD: (The source is krtko.afdesign.) I exported it to SVG, then wrote some C code that calls my procedure (you can find it here, if interested), used OpenSCAD to turn it into STL and PrusaSlicer to prepare it for 3D printing (after I receive and assemble my new printer, of course). The result should be a nice little plastic coaster seen in this image (ignore the green part, that is just a support required for the printing):
  23. AdamStanislav
    Wow. That is awesome!
  24. AdamStanislav
    Then why did you post the rest?
  25. AdamStanislav
    Raspberry Pi alone has millions users all over the world.
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