2025-12-26 16:48 UTC
The documentation for this image processing library by @vruba is one of the most interesting things I've read in weeks:
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/README.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md
Philosophical discussion of the nature of seeing and what am image is vs a map, fascinating technical details about how satellite imaging works and why it looks as bad as it often does, a lot of really thoughtful conversation about engineering and aesthetic process, and even an amusing unit of measurement — grams per terrapixel.
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@sf105@mastodonapp.uk 2025-12-26 21:37
@dymaxion@infosec.exchange @vruba@everything.happens.horse cc @marick@mstdn.social Thought you might appreciate this.
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@suhacker@infosec.exchange 2025-12-26 21:55
@vruba@everything.happens.horse @dymaxion@infosec.exchange Sick! I love finding amazing works of writing in unexpected places. In a similar vein, I once found the most perfect explanations of image resampling algorithms in a guide for anime fansubbing. https://guide.encode.moe/encoding/masking-limiting-etc.html