Archive for September, 2005

A little Gimp here, a little Gimp there… voila!

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

After the exam today and a little afternoon nap I had to relax somehow. So, I dug out that dusty Gimp and made a little redesign of the Kubrick theme I use on my blog. Is nothing fancy, just a color change here and different background image there… and it makes a big difference!
Ah, […]

ESR switching to M$!?

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Well, this really made my day! :)
The best joke ever! I hope it gets into modquote! :)

Embedding

Monday, September 12th, 2005

I took a few minutes from my busy study schedule and installed Gallery2 WordPress plugin. But then, a few minutes became half an hour because of stupidity of the plugin and some misconfiguration of Apache! But a few emacs sessions and symlinks later… it works! :)
Well, sort of. The random image on the right works, […]

Magic with graphics (updated)

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Ivan has updated his article about image compositing.
There are a few new pictures, that help present the whole idea.

Apple amazes… again!

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

One of these days, that I wasn’t paying attention cause of the exams, Apple released one new product and a new version of another one.
iPod nano
… is the successor of the iPod mini and a hybrid between the later and iPod shuffle. Nano is much slimmer than Mini, actually its thickness is about the same […]

Computer magic without the magic wand!

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Ivan wrote a long article about image compositing using only standard OpenGL functions (with a few tricks).
This article came to life after he discovered how to do “programmable shaders” type of magic, without actually using programmable shaders. This method is very useful when one wants this kind of effects and doesn’t want to […]