Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Two tigers. Two brothers?
Two tigers, actually brothers, bron together on 31st May 2007 in Tianjin zoo, China. But they don’t have the same color. Source: Daily Mail.
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Concert photo at the Gazometro
About a month ago, I was invited by a friend to a music workshop where he is participating in the Cultural center of the Gazometro in Porto Alegre (Brazil). I had brought my digital camera et here are some of the images produced then despite the awfully limited light. Note: Just click on the thumbnails…
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Cretinoid coprocephalic
An excerpt from Julian May’s Orion arm (second book of the Science-Fiction Rampart Worlds series): Dr Crystal diagnosed Matsukawa as a cretinoid coprocephalic -helpfully translating the medical terminology into its Standard English equivalent of ‘stupid shithead‘- who was lucky to be alive. My own translation into French: “crétinoïde orchydocéphalique“.
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Leonardo’s last supper in high-definition
Italian firm HAL9000 has a neat technology to shoot very high definition images. They apply it to antique art masterworks like Leonardo’s major painting “The last supper” (of recent cinematographic fame): An incredible 16 gigapixel resolution to get down to the finest cracks in the paint. Another previous work from HaltaDefinizione (with only 8.6 billion…
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Hiroshige: One hundred famous views of Edo
A masterpiece of Japanese painting is now available online since the Brooklyn Museum published brilliant reproductions of these exceptionnal prints that deeply impressed the European impressionists. Brooklyn Museum – One hundred famous views of Edo
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Crysis minimum requirements
Since it appears that finding this information about the Crysis video game is a bit difficult, you can follow the link to Crysis minimum requirements here.
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Long hair has its web site
Rapunzel’s delight.
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Spyder Pro to calibrate two LCD displays
I had previously indicated that I successfully calmibrated a Hyundai Q17 LCD display for a better color management. Today, in order to work in the best possible conditions when handling digital photos on my main PC system using a Dell 2407WFP as my primary display and still the same Hyundai Q17 as secondary display, I…
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GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. That makes it a quite serious competitor to Adobe Photoshop, even if Adobe is still both much higher-priced and more…