I snap a lot of pictures with the camera in my mobile phone. This is a relatively new thing for me; I own several high quality cameras, and it didn’t occur to me for quite a while that it was okay to make low quality (640×480) snapshots of the random things that happen when I’m […]

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Now that Steve has linked to me again, I guess it would be timely to post something from the Electronic Imaging symposium. Let’s start with something fun: digital image forensics.
I find this topic really interesting for a few reasons. (1) I’m a photographer who believes that all images contain a seed of untruth but feel […]

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I’m full. Sated. Happy.
Fish tacos, my friends. That’s what has brought me to this wonderful place. Batter-fried fish on corn tortillas with salsa, finely cut cabbage, and some secret ingredient that Rubio’s puts in their “Pesky” tacos. With tortilla chips and refried beans on the side. Mmm. . .
It would be wrong to say that I came […]

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As seen at The Clutter Museum:
Bold the statements that are true.

Father went to college
Father finished college (don’t know . . . maybe)
Mother went to college
Mother finished college (The same year I did, for which we were all very proud.)
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
Were the same or higher class than your […]

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As seen in the comments of Coding Horror’s article Typography: Where Engineers and Designers Meet:
Typefaces are the gateway drug of typography. It starts with fonts, then you’ll be hand kerning and eventually you’ll be up all night with grids and vertical rhythm and column width. Be careful, kids.
Don’t I know it! One day you’re saying […]

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A quick post today containing two links:

The Truth about Agile Processes
What Do You Wish Your CEO Knew about Agile

“Agile” is a family of light-weight, quality-based software development methodologies that have many things going for them. Put over the last three semesters in my software engineering program, I have noticed that very few people work in […]

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The discussion in the comments of my recent article about HD Photo (a.k.a. JPEG-XR) got me thinking about all of the different beasts that go by the name “JPEG.”
JPEG: What most of us consider to be “JPEG” is just one of many processes for image encoding and decoding defined within the same specification. The process […]

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For my 9-5, I wrangle file formats, making it possible for people to read images into MATLAB and then do something useful with them. I’m always on the look out for what’s new, and there’s always something new. (I only joke about employing a legion of developers in Bangalore to develop new formats so that […]

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