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RMagick4J: Status Update 09/03/09

March 9th, 2009 Serabe No comments

Finally I figure out the problem with the convolve method. The code I wrote was only prepared to deal with TYPE_INT_ARGB BufferedImages but when reading a image from a file, it doesn’t ensure this type. Now this is fixed and working.

Furthermore, I added charcoal, solarize and shade effects. The latter gave some problem while testing, but finally the problem was in test not in code. From now on, the to_threshold method must be used in test when dealing with numbers that depend on the QuantumRange. This problem is due that QuantumRange can differ from one ImageMagick installation to another, but RMagick4J always uses 255.

Here you are some examples (the guy that looks like me is actually my non-existent twin brother):

RMagick	RMagick4J (This is what I do)
original

charcoal 0.75 (RMagick4J is not normalized)

edge 5

shade true, 50, 50

solarize 27.5/255*QuantumRange

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PredicciÃ³n.

March 6th, 2009 Serabe No comments

Escribo esto el miÃ©rcoles 4 de marzo a las 21:52 y predigo que Alba no habrÃ¡ escrito nada nuevo para cuando esta entrada vea la luz…
ActualizaciÃ³n: Esto de predecir no es tan chungo. Â¡He acertado!

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Dead Like Me: Life After Death

March 5th, 2009 Serabe No comments

I remember this TV show fondly. It was the last TV show I got up early (I mean, befor 13:00) only to watch it with my family. It was all about a girl who died in the pilot when a toilet crashed into her. Then, Georgia (the only girl I know had died because a toilet crashed into her) became a grim reaper, her work was to reap souls of time-to-go people. Furthermore, she was in the External Influence Division (accidents, nature disasters and others).
Later in the story we knew about the gravelings, a beings that cause deathly accidents. They are suppose to be invincible (spoiler, spoiler, spoiler) in the second season’s finale Georgia reaped a graveling, and it turned to dust (you can read now safely).

So, this week I read a film about Dead Like Me was released and few hours ago, I finally saw it. No Rube (Mandy Patinkin, the ‘I’m IÃ±igo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die.’ guy), no original Daisy, no Der Waffel Haus (it is even burned to dust!), suddenly the George’s other face is not hard to look at. Ok, I can stand it. Maybe I can even enjoy it (no, I’m not kidding). But not graveling reaping? But not (the same spoiler comes again) graveling reaping? OMG! It was the cliffhanger of the second season!(you can read the rest of the post) And lostie Desmond instead of Rube!

Anyway, the film is watchable. It is not like Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (I’m still considering killing every people involved in that crime against humanity).