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Tiled Background Designer
I'm currently working on parametric texture generation in my academic life. Steerable pyramids are the neatest thing I've seen in a long time - you can give it a piece of a texture, and it'll (to varying degrees of success) give you "more" of that texture (where the "more" part tries to hold constant as many of the image statistics as possible (it doesn't just 'tile' the image - it's a lot more sophisticated than that).
For some examples (and to see... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:51 AM on July 17, 2008
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Hot or not? No, Pos or not!
Ok, I'm confused as well. I got 100%. So did both of my labmates. Surely that's not what's supposed to be happening.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:57 AM on May 20, 2008
As did my wife. wtf.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:32 PM on May 20, 2008
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Peel off the colors.
It'd be nice to know what kind of technology he used to get that to happen in a browser.
Umm... Flash? Or do you have some more subtle question in mind?
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:55 AM on May 20, 2008
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What goes up...
What a douchebag comment. These people affect you how, exactly?
They're ruining marriage button-pressing for the rest of us!
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 10:03 AM on April 15, 2008
Also...
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 11:26 AM on April 15, 2008
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Airliner Videos
It's old, but that Fedex diversions animation makes me crack up every time. "Run away! Run away!"
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 6:56 PM on February 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Give 1 Get 1
They absolutely do get root.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 6:18 AM on November 13, 2007
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Ron Paul Spam
Yeah wake up sh33ple
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 2:23 PM on November 5, 2007
The Wire shows this to be at least somewhat accurate in Baltimore.
And 24 shows that torture is effective.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 5:30 AM on November 6, 2007
MeFi post:
One continuous Line (x2)
I can't believe I fully plan to grab the code and do this myself, for a smaller subset of points.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 6:57 AM on October 3, 2007
MeFi post:
The coolest man alive.
My dad has an autographed copy of Cards as Weapons. Great book.
Anyone who wants the PDF version, feel free to contact me.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 6:47 AM on October 3, 2007
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Bruce Forcing
It gets the hash from that password and stores it, forgetting the password itself.
Actually, metafilter stores plaintext passwords.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 3:48 PM on September 4, 2007
No love for the IP-address map?
Meta.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 5:13 PM on September 4, 2007
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Dental Surgery Vacations
Ooh! Ooh! I know what Pepsi Blue means too and am delighted to prove my in-crowd worthiness by snarking about it!
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:51 PM on August 22, 2007
MeFi post:
Level 50 is evil
After 45 minutes I give up on level 15. Screenshot, anyone, please, for my sanity.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 8:33 PM on July 27, 2007
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The Open Library
It couldn't find three of the four obscure books I threw at it.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:29 PM on July 16, 2007
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Space objects
DU: He uses the elements. Says so on the page.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 6:09 AM on July 6, 2007
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Pardon moi?
growabrain: pardons, exhibit 5
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 8:35 PM on July 3, 2007
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Desktop pictures - Computer wallpaper
All the photos link back to the original Flickr page
Err - no, they don't. Unless I'm missing something, they link directly to the static image at the flickr image farm, which is specifically prohibited by Flickr's TOS.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 5:06 PM on July 2, 2007
Sorry, my mistake. There is indeed a tiny link at the top of the page.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 5:07 PM on July 2, 2007
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One click
Is something supposed to happen?
Just because you're a killjoy who turns off Flash and Javascript doesn't mean everyone is.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 9:10 AM on May 28, 2007
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Black hole of Mars
Couldn't they just be something (eg. chunk of rock) between the camera and the surface?
No. That was the point of the article, really.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd
at 7:13 AM on May 25, 2007
