Programming
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Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
→: Getting Started with the Raspberry PiI lucked out in being in town when the Women Powering Technology Raspberry Pi event was on, and also in hearing about it – and being allowed in at the last minute! Of course I had heard about the Raspberry Pi, and loved the idea, but I’m pretty intimidated by hardware and cables, so it…
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My Inspiration App: App Concept
→: My Inspiration App: App ConceptMy app idea – a place to collect things that inspire, that can be found searching their tags, location, or type. I understand that people can and do use any number of other apps for this – Twitter favourites, for example, this is just supposed to be a purely happy and motivating place on our…
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Getting Set Up on Android
→: Getting Set Up on AndroidI used the event Programming Languages I’ve Been Meaning To Try But Haven’t Gotten Around To Yet at the Stripe offices (organised by Star Simpson) in San Francisco to get going on Android. Aside – I love the concept of this event. Great opportunity to hang out with your laptop, the only goal being to suck…
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More Experiments Around RGB Averaging
→: More Experiments Around RGB AveragingI decided to replicate the showing/hiding the dominant hues in images with showing/hiding around the average RGB values instead. I created a class called RGBColor (just holds red, green, and blue values), similar to the one I created called HSBColor. I could have used the java.awt.Color class, but that insists on a range of 0-1…
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Eliminating the Dominant Hue from an Image
→: Eliminating the Dominant Hue from an ImageI thought it would be interesting to invert the idea of showing only the dominant hue, and show everything but that instead. I used the exact same code, but inverted the if statement so: if (!hueInRange(hue, lower, upper)) became if (hueInRange(hue, lower, upper)) Effect is as follows, as with most of these, my favourite effect…
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Folders of Images, Compare and Contrast
→: Folders of Images, Compare and ContrastNow I’ve experimented with things, I wanted to make something that would allow me to compare different effects on the same photo, and loop through a folder of pictures looking for nice effects. I overrode mousePressed() to change the image on click. The big challenge here was running out of Java Heap space once I…
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My Theory of User Happiness and the Enterprise Application
→: My Theory of User Happiness and the Enterprise ApplicationEnterprise applications are (usually) the applications that people have to use, whereas consumer applications are (usually) those that they choose to use, and so I would argue they are where you can have the biggest effect on user-happiness. Gains in user happiness on consumer applications are mostly incremental – the standard is pretty high, it has to…
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Visualising A Photo Series
→: Visualising A Photo SeriesWhenever I’m scrolling through pictures I’ve taken, it seem like they are in sections – here’s when I was near the beach, he’s the park, the night sky and fireworks. I thought if you visualised the way that the dominant colors changed, patterns would emerge. I found the perfect layout for this, the sunflower layout,…
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Showing Only the Dominant Hue In an Image
→: Showing Only the Dominant Hue In an ImageHaving extracted the dominant hue from the images, we can manipulate the image such that pixels that are not (or close to) the dominant hue are instead made grayscale. I converted to grayscale using the brightness of the image in the HSB. This worked really nicely. From my earlier experiments I decided on a hue…