my digital playground

According to Wikipedia, “Image editing” encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Images are stored in a computer in the form of a grid of picture elements, or pixels. These pixels contain the image’s color and brightness information.

In our case, we altered digital photos and learned mor about how to manipulate pixels and techniques to overlay several images. (continue reading…)

Based on a tutorial from psd-tutorials.de I experimented a bit with photoshop and created a 10-years-later picture. I added some grey hairs and crinkles and retouched unaesthetic details. (continue reading…)

As you can see on the ZFS open source page the ZFS-on-mac-project has been terminated:

The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly.

Originally ZFS has been designed and developed by Sun Microsystems. ZFS is was a file system and logical volume manager with great abilities. It supported high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. As usual of Sun, ZFS is implemented as Open Source. (continue reading…)

After brainstorming and collecting ideas I drew some snaps onto paper. The storyboard shows the idea and a little bit the way how I’ll realize it. I intend to use several of my own photographies of my last holidays in Kenya. I’d like to animate them and present them in a appropriate way. (continue reading…)

Some graphical work done with Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator. (continue reading…)

During the ‘Multimediatechnik’ (MMT) module we have the task to plan and create a small animation. My idea is about doing an animation with several effects (morphing, zooming, etc.) applied on pictures (probably taken by myself) and a specific logo.

I don’t know yet, how (technicial realisation) to realize it. But further details will be posted on this blog. Check back soon!

Also playing and generating MIDI sounds with Processing is quite easy. I did a small applet which plays a choosen MIDI-File and generates some sounds. (continue reading…)

Unfortunately, Thawte’s Web of trust is going to be discontinued on the 16th of November 2009. It’s a pity that they will stopp this service – considering the time all the WoT notaries spent onto this. (continue reading…)

Today’s processing task was about programming a music player. There are several ways to implement music tasks (playing, recording etc.). I took the Minim library. Another one is the Ess audio library. I heard from my colleague Jürg Stalder that Minim didn’t work on his Mac Book and therefore he realized it with Ess – and as we can see, it works too.
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After “snowing” Apple’s Leopard (I did a completely new install) I installed Adobe Acrobat 9. The installation run through quite well without errors. But then I saw, that Adobe’s PDF Printer is missing in the printer section… (continue reading…)