Dealing with the ARM AArch64 SIMD documentation
Fri 26 May 2017
The ARMv8 instruction set documentation has always been garbage, and particularly the SIMD sections. In comparison, the Intel documentation provides...
Understanding selective coloring in Adobe Photoshop
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Photoshop has many interesting color filters, most of them being perfidiously documented such that you can understand how to use...
High quality GIF with FFmpeg
Mon 16 Mar 2015
About two years ago, I tried to improve the support of the GIF encoding in FFmpeg to make it at...
Templating in C
Sat 28 Feb 2015
The question of how to do templating in C is often raised, and I couldn't find a good overview of...
Butchering HQX scaling filters
Sat 21 Jun 2014
The [HQX filters][wphqx], namely hq2x, hq3x and hq4x, are well-known pixel art scalers. They are mainly used by old console...
Kanji 3D Mapping fun hack
Tue 14 May 2013
In my [previous post][learn-japanese], I tried to build a map of the Kanjis. The result was barely useful, and not...
Learning Japanese the nerd way
Sun 24 Feb 2013
A few months ago, I finished school and quit my job around the same time. After waiting several years for...
Map for xkcd No:1110
Fri 21 Sep 2012
Three times a week, Randall Munroe draws a new comic entry on xkcd.com. This Wednesday, the comic was quite unusual...
The music classifying nightmare
Sat 08 Sep 2012
While I accumulated music files over the years, the main issue I came across wasn't how to not get caught...
Fun and canny optim for a Canny Edge Detector
Sat 08 Sep 2012
The *canny edge detector* is likely the most commonly implemented edge detection algorithm. It's generally a nice filter to write...