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February 15, 2016 2:05 PM   Subscribe

The 1972 World Chess Championship in Reykjavik occasioned a fantastic series of caricatures, by Icelandic artist Halldór Pétursson, of Fischer and Spassky. The unwatermarked versions at the bottom of the page are the result of some simple but clever image processing.
posted by Wolfdog (5 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
These are very cool, especially after having just seen Pawn Sacrifice. Thanks.

/Y nunca pensé que hay un die quando yo leo un articulo sobre proceso digital de imágenes en Delphi 7 en Español. Que mundo nuevo valiente...!
posted by benito.strauss at 4:33 PM on February 15, 2016


i am pretty sure it would be better to use (G+B)/2 instead of (R+G+B)/3+X (where X is some magic constant). the stamp is mainly red, so blue and green levels should correctly (or closely) predict the white level. but the results are so good that i may have misunderstood something.
posted by andrewcooke at 5:22 PM on February 15, 2016


That's a neat processing trick. I'm not sure I got the explanation of why these images weren't available unmarked, though?
posted by Jon Mitchell at 5:59 PM on February 15, 2016


I'm not sure I got the explanation of why these images weren't available unmarked, though?

Basically, they cost too much (the person doing the processing is in Mexico so may or may not be in possession of the $250 that the set cost at that point) and the selling site linked hadn't been updated in a long time so it didn't seem likely that they would actually be available through it (in fact it 404s now).

I can't comment on the image processing techniques but I understood everything that wasn't the programming. Spanish degree FTW.
posted by librarylis at 9:40 PM on February 15, 2016


Iceland stood up to the US demands to extradite Fischer, and they gave him a comfortable (maybe not warm) place to live out the sad end of his life with dignity. I always will admire them for this.
posted by thelonius at 7:04 AM on February 16, 2016


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