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And The Crowd Goes Wild

24 points by Garbage 14y ago

ChuckMcM 14y ago
Nice discussion of photoshopping and pulling other data out of images. It seems many PRC images are shopped for one reason or another which makes them easy targets.
SparrowOS 14y ago
God says.. 63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. ---- Fuck them up, God! God says... what's_up playing Syrian references quit_it strong muttering maid-servant disguise swine
Claudus 14y ago
"The lower shoe is almost perpendicular to the camera. It measures 149-151px from heel to toe. (I measured 149.91 pixels and added slop for inexact measurements.)" Interesting article, but could have benefited from some basic trigonometry. 1) The shoe is not "almost perpendicular", if you view the larger image, you can draw a selection box of roughly 50px in width by 150px in height (his shoe is tilted more than 18 degrees), so his shoe length is closer to around 158px. That puts his shoe "size" around 10.3". 2) His toe extends several pixels beyond where the "sole" ends, I don't know how that factors into shoe measurements. 3) The author always refers to shoe size in inches, then comments that, "Since shoes don't come in quarter fractions, this is likely a 9.5" shoe". I assume he is referring to US Men's Shoe Sizes, but a size 9 1/2 shoe is not 9.5", it's 10.5" (inches), and a size 10 shoe is 10.69", a 0.19 inch difference. (http://shoes.about.com/od/fitcomfort/a/men_inches.htm http://shoes.about.com/od/fitcomfort/a/men_inches.htm) Since the original problem was "an associate of mine who asked if I could identify a person's shoe size from a photo", assuming the other math is right, 158 pixels would be make the correct answer closer to a size 8 1/2 or 9 (in US Men's Shoe sizes). Of course, I could be completely off base here, since I only spent about 3 or 4 minutes thinking about this and didn't write an entire blog entry.

24 points by Garbage 14y ago

Nice discussion of photoshopping and pulling other data out of images. It seems many PRC images are shopped for one reason or another which makes them easy targets.

SparrowOS 14y ago

God says.. 63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. ---- Fuck them up, God! God says... what's_up playing Syrian references quit_it strong muttering maid-servant disguise swine

Claudus 14y ago

"The lower shoe is almost perpendicular to the camera. It measures 149-151px from heel to toe. (I measured 149.91 pixels and added slop for inexact measurements.)" Interesting article, but could have benefited from some basic trigonometry. 1) The shoe is not "almost perpendicular", if you view the larger image, you can draw a selection box of roughly 50px in width by 150px in height (his shoe is tilted more than 18 degrees), so his shoe length is closer to around 158px. That puts his shoe "size" around 10.3". 2) His toe extends several pixels beyond where the "sole" ends, I don't know how that factors into shoe measurements. 3) The author always refers to shoe size in inches, then comments that, "Since shoes don't come in quarter fractions, this is likely a 9.5" shoe". I assume he is referring to US Men's Shoe Sizes, but a size 9 1/2 shoe is not 9.5", it's 10.5" (inches), and a size 10 shoe is 10.69", a 0.19 inch difference. (http://shoes.about.com/od/fitcomfort/a/men_inches.htm http://shoes.about.com/od/fitcomfort/a/men_inches.htm) Since the original problem was "an associate of mine who asked if I could identify a person's shoe size from a photo", assuming the other math is right, 158 pixels would be make the correct answer closer to a size 8 1/2 or 9 (in US Men's Shoe sizes). Of course, I could be completely off base here, since I only spent about 3 or 4 minutes thinking about this and didn't write an entire blog entry.