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by foolrush 9y ago
Because that is the term for the rubbish that fool was attempting to forward. https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/894465888694480897
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by foolrush 9y ago
Posting a manifesto on medicalization / biological essentialism isn't fanatical? I am absolutely stunned at how few sociologists are at Google that permit these sorts of toxic conceptual models to not simply exist, but come to f
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by foolrush 9y ago
Google Nintendo's AR Games if you haven't already seen them. Mind blowing fun, and years ahead of Apple's efforts. The archery and golf games were incredible. I was hoping for years that it was a sign that Nintendo was going
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by foolrush 9y ago
When all you have is Capitalism, everything is a market. What sort of dark world are we living in where we are discouraging people from studying areas that don't have a monitary return on investment?
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by foolrush 9y ago
RGBA in associated is unique in that it represents distilled geometry. If you were to zoom in on a pixel that had a degree of geometry occluding it, the coverage is represented by the alpha ratio, while the RGB is purely emission. It is com
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by foolrush 9y ago
Not sure what you think an RGB triplet is other than emission. Anyways, read the links I provided above.
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by foolrush 9y ago
Except associated alpha models emission and occlusion via the operation. You don't need zero alpha either, as any ratio can occlude partially and emit partially as well. No hacking needed.
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by foolrush 9y ago
It is emissive. Feel free to reference the original Porter Duff paper regarding "luminescent pixels" or Alvy Smith's opinion on the matter as relayed by Zap Andersson in the legendary Adobe thread. https://forums.a
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by foolrush 9y ago
EXR is associated by convention. TIFF mandates it, although with an additional TIFF tag for an "opacity" channel that behaves as unassociated IIRC.
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by foolrush 9y ago
It ends up being a pure add emission. It can't be done with unassociated alpha due to the multiplication.
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by foolrush 9y ago
Entirely false in that it is indeed a completely valid combination. See luminescent pixels in the Porter Duff paper. It represents a pixel that has no occlusion and is emitting.
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by foolrush 9y ago
This is not quite accurate. In an associated alpha image (aka premultiplied), zero alpha with non-zero RGB represents emission with no occlusion.
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by foolrush 9y ago
That little ditty is also very likely why PNG has zero uptake in visual effects and CGI. Associated (aka premultiplied) alpha is the _sole_ means to embody both occlusion and emission. Unassociated (aka straight or key) alpha cannot represe
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by foolrush 9y ago
Don't ignore the elephant in the room. There is a good reason the USA spends the most on medical and has less than stellar results. That is without glancing at the corporate tax evasion. Unfettered profit at all costs capitalism isn&#x
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by foolrush 9y ago
Except this plays into the mythmaking. Apple would very likely _love_ to have a second or third profit generator. If you examine the profits taken on iPads, MacBooks, and everything else Apple does (see http://www.asymco.com ) re
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(Not) Born This Way(jacobinmag.com)
1 points by foolrush 9y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 9y ago
The culture.
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by foolrush 9y ago
Alternatively, a blind delusion to differing design needs in differing contexts with differing audiences. Design 101.
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Bruce Lindbloom's Colour Site Is Gone(brucelindbloom.com)
1 points by foolrush 10y ago|0 comments
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Bootstrap myth exposed: White inheritance key driver in racial wealth gap(channel3000.com)
3 points by foolrush 10y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 10y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to stop the “Wait and see” approach and organize action against the problem? It strikes me that yielding to unjust approaches is fundamentally problematic on two fronts: - The action of forcing legal citizen
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by foolrush 10y ago
It is an hour long, but whoa, is this presentation excellent, illuminating, frightening, and absolutely compelling. Can't help but draw analogies to politics and many other things. Great post.
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by foolrush 10y ago
No. Linear is not a colour space, as a properly defined colour space, as per the ISO specification, is: - A well defined transfer function. - Properly described primary light chromaticities. - Properly defined white point colour. Where you
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by foolrush 10y ago
Linear is not a colourspace. It is an attribute of a properly defined encoding model. Further, there are two forms of linear display linear and scene linear, which are fundamentally essential to grasp for rendering approaches. See ISO 220
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by foolrush 10y ago
Accurate. The 2.2 and various hacks compensate for the baked in hardware. Although perception is nonlinear, the nonlinearity here specifically addresses hardware on standard sRGB displays. After all, as cited above, why would you apply a no
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Facebook Has Been Intentionally Crashing Its Android App on Users(popularmechanics.com)
8 points by foolrush 10y ago|1 comments
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by foolrush 10y ago
I hope this is some sarcastic joke. I really do. If anyone believes this, they have apparently been asleep at the wheel of GIMP development for the past decade. Hubris. Ego. Not a shred of a clue about image editing. The entire batch of cu
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by foolrush 10y ago
The architecture and architect shouldn't be writing software. Complete hack with no knowledge of image editing. Chase down Elle Stone's posts on how fundamentally broken it is. Shortlist: 1. Hideously over-engineered pixel path ma
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Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review(space.com)
7 points by foolrush 10y ago|1 comments
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Bullied by Teachers: 'You're Too Dumb for Math'(m.spiegel.de)
2 points by foolrush 10y ago|0 comments

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