#Tag
I'm looking for a graphics person to turn a portrait into a single color vector image (and possibly a few other tweaks) for later open publication.
DM me if you are interested!
#FediHire #Inkscape #Illustrator #Graphics
Free Software that I rely on. One per day.
Day 7:
ImageMagick
This is actually a small suite of tools that can be used from the command line, although it also has a GUI interface. Pretty old school software; been around for ages; still very handy.
Not as powerful as Gimp or Krita for manipulating a single image, but with ImageMagick and a bash script you can make changes en masse ("convert" and "mogrify" -- which does the job in place). You can quickly check the format and size of images from the command line ("identify") or simply pop up the image with "display".
Finally, with "compose" you can make an image combining multiple images in many different ways, including making a grid with or without labels.
I don't use it as much as I used to, but it is still the simplest way to check image content from the command line. And it's really the only option when you need to change a whole lot of images at once.
Also often used on server back ends to manipulate images for display in web applications.
#FreeSoftwareAdvent #ImageMagick #Graphics #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Typewriter Plotters: A collection of bizarre 80s and 90s printers. Pen plotters with keyboards attached, or other odd hybrids
https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143
#via:lobsters #plotterart #typewriter #plotting #graphics #cool #art #+
Free Software that I rely on. One per day.
Day 6:
Audacity
Another old one! I think I've been using Audacity for about 25 years, now.
It is a "destructive audio editor", which means it is kind of the audio equivalent to a bitmap editor in graphics -- you are actually changing the values of the samples in the recording when you make changes, rather than applying filters on top of them as non-destructive editors do.
This makes Audacity particularly good at constructing sound effects from recorded sources.
I do most of my audio processing in Audacity, but even if I do involve a non-destructive "DAW" platform, I would probably continue to use Audacity for creating effects and recording voices.
It is an excellent tool for recording audio directly or reviewing and selecting audio from field recordings.
Free Software that I rely on. One per day.
Day 7:
ImageMagick
This is actually a small suite of tools that can be used from the command line, although it also has a GUI interface. Pretty old school software; been around for ages; still very handy.
Not as powerful as Gimp or Krita for manipulating a single image, but with ImageMagick and a bash script you can make changes en masse ("convert" and "mogrify" -- which does the job in place). You can quickly check the format and size of images from the command line ("identify") or simply pop up the image with "display".
Finally, with "compose" you can make an image combining multiple images in many different ways, including making a grid with or without labels.
I don't use it as much as I used to, but it is still the simplest way to check image content from the command line. And it's really the only option when you need to change a whole lot of images at once.
Also often used on server back ends to manipulate images for display in web applications.
#FreeSoftwareAdvent #ImageMagick #Graphics #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Typewriter Plotters: A collection of bizarre 80s and 90s printers. Pen plotters with keyboards attached, or other odd hybrids
https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143
#via:lobsters #plotterart #typewriter #plotting #graphics #cool #art #+
I'm looking for a graphics person to turn a portrait into a single color vector image (and possibly a few other tweaks) for later open publication.
DM me if you are interested!
#FediHire #Inkscape #Illustrator #Graphics
Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D
https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/
#HackerNews #Ray #Marching #Soft #Shadows #in #2D #distancefields #graphics #rendering #technology #innovation
Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering
https://momentsingraphics.de/SpectralRendering2Rendering.html
#HackerNews #SpectralRendering #RealTimeRendering #Graphics #Technology #ComputerGraphics
Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates
https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders
#HackerNews #Shaders #Graphics #HighFidelity #XandYCoordinates #MakingSoftware
Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD
https://eliovp.com/why-cuda-translation-wont-unlock-amds-real-potential/
#HackerNews #CUDA #AMD #Graphics #Technology #Performance #Translation
⛐ Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00076
#cs #graphics #text #characters #cg #béziercurves #llm #ai #vision #machinevision
Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!
1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (photo editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura (3D printing)
⛐ Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00076
#cs #graphics #text #characters #cg #béziercurves #llm #ai #vision #machinevision
📏 Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances
https://blog.pkh.me/p/47-text-rendering-and-effects-using-gpu-computed-distances.html
#graphics #gpu #programming #software #text #fonts #rendering #softwaredevelopment
📏 Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances
https://blog.pkh.me/p/47-text-rendering-and-effects-using-gpu-computed-distances.html
#graphics #gpu #programming #software #text #fonts #rendering #softwaredevelopment
Why do we need dithering?
https://typefully.com/DanHollick/why-do-we-need-dithering-Ut7oD4k
#HackerNews #dithering #digitalart #technology #design #graphics
a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
