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Yes, "anything like this"... TFA links to a simple, one-step app that converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering techniqu

Yes, "anything like this"... TFA links to a simple, one-step app that converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering technique. Commenter wanted to know if such a simple "do one thing well" app actually exists. I think neither of you read the article at all, and based your replies solely on the content of other replies, and if that's the case, it's exceedingly unfair to the poor guy who just wanted a command line dithering app.

coldtea 11y ago
>Yes, "anything like this"... TFA links to a simple, one-step app that converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering technique. And instead of the "converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering technique" part (which is the whole point), some seem to be bizarrely focused on the "simple, one-step app" -- losing the forest for the tree. >Commenter wanted to know if such a simple "do one thing well" app actually exists. Commenter wanted to know if any similar thing exists in Linux, for which the obvious deduction would be "something to produce the same results", NOT something necessarily structured as a "do one thing well" app. It would thus be cool if a suggestion also matched that, but still OK if it didn't. >I think neither of you read the article at all, and based your replies solely on the content of other replies, and if that's the case, it's exceedingly unfair to the poor guy who just wanted a command line dithering app. First of all, there's no article. It's an app presentation page on John's website (for which I've been a fan for years, and follow his watercolor like apps and other generated painting experiments). Also, who said that the commenter "just wanted a command line dithering app" or that he would take offense if some GUI app were suggested? He asked for "anything like this for Linux" -- and "this" happens to a GUI app. How can you miss that and still accuse others of not reading the page? Maybe stop second-guessing the guy and offending the parent that tried to help with his suggestions? Parent never said it has to be a CLI app, and he never said it has to be a "single purpose tool" either. And neither "anything" nor "like" imply that the Linux app should fit very specific criteria. The most obvious way to read what he said as it stands now is as asking people to suggest Linux apps to achieve the same results. Besides there's nothing impolite, much less "exceedingly unfair" (!), about a person trying to be helpful and suggesting several apps that do/might do the same task -- even if they also do another 10 or 100 things.

coldtea 11y ago

>Yes, "anything like this"... TFA links to a simple, one-step app that converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering technique. And instead of the "converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering technique" part (which is the whole point), some seem to be bizarrely focused on the "simple, one-step app" -- losing the forest for the tree. >Commenter wanted to know if such a simple "do one thing well" app actually exists. Commenter wanted to know if any similar thing exists in Linux, for which the obvious deduction would be "something to produce the same results", NOT something necessarily structured as a "do one thing well" app. It would thus be cool if a suggestion also matched that, but still OK if it didn't. >I think neither of you read the article at all, and based your replies solely on the content of other replies, and if that's the case, it's exceedingly unfair to the poor guy who just wanted a command line dithering app. First of all, there's no article. It's an app presentation page on John's website (for which I've been a fan for years, and follow his watercolor like apps and other generated painting experiments). Also, who said that the commenter "just wanted a command line dithering app" or that he would take offense if some GUI app were suggested? He asked for "anything like this for Linux" -- and "this" happens to a GUI app. How can you miss that and still accuse others of not reading the page? Maybe stop second-guessing the guy and offending the parent that tried to help with his suggestions? Parent never said it has to be a CLI app, and he never said it has to be a "single purpose tool" either. And neither "anything" nor "like" imply that the Linux app should fit very specific criteria. The most obvious way to read what he said as it stands now is as asking people to suggest Linux apps to achieve the same results. Besides there's nothing impolite, much less "exceedingly unfair" (!), about a person trying to be helpful and suggesting several apps that do/might do the same task -- even if they also do another 10 or 100 things.