Hacker News3h ago

Hardware Image Compression

https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/03/hardware-image-compression/

#HackerNews #Hardware #Image #Compression #Technology #Innovation #ImageProcessing #CompressionAlgorithms

Hardware Image Compression

One of the things I've always lamented about hardware image formats is the slow pace of innovation. Developers were usually unwilling to ship textures in a new format unless that format was widely available. That is, the format had to be supported in the majority of the hardware they were targeting,

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Rod Stephens14h ago

Display an image at different scales in Python

https://rodstephensbooks.com/scale_image.html

#Python #PIL #ImageProcessing

Bruno Adelé2d ago

ImageMagick est sous-côté.

Pour mon CV en terminal ANSI, je devais convertir un fond noir en version imprimable + adapter les couleurs (et le noir & blanc).

Résultat : quelques commandes, tout automatisé.

Simple, puissant, efficace.

Script dans le ALT

#DevOps #CLI #ImageProcessing #Automation #Tooling

Cameraderie 📸5d ago

My experience using only free software for image editing
https://cameraderie.org/threads/my-experience-using-only-free-software-for-image-editing.60738/

#Cameraderie #Software #Photography #Linux #free #ImageEditing #ImageProcessing

Linux - My experience using only free software for image editing

We used to be an Apple-exclusive household, however after my very poor experience with Apple's 2016-2019 era hardware (and also given that their software is becoming worse every year), a couple of years ago I sold my Mac mini and MacBook Pro and switched to Linux. I must say that Linux has...

Cameraderie
Python for Data Science6d ago
We have now significantly expanded our collection of open data and organised it by topic: https://www.python4data.science/en/latest/data-processing/opendata.html
#Python #DataScience #OpenData #Agriculture #Biology #Chemistry #Climate #Weather #ComputerNetwork #Energy #Finance #GeoScience #Healthcare #ImageProcessing #Medicine #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NeuroScience #Physics #SocialScience #Transport #Traffic
Open data

A topic-based overview of public repositories containing research data. Agricultural sciences: AQUASTAT Dissemination System, Global information system of the Food and Agriculture Organization of t...

Python for Data Science
Giménez Silva Germán AlbertoMar 23

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor.

When I built ruby-libgd I included Sobel edge detection, Laplacian filter, Gaussian blur, and custom convolution as native C bindings. I knew those filters would be useful someday.

Turns out medical imaging is exactly that use case.

Full article with code and Jupyter notebook below.

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/23/can-ruby-read-an-x-ray-building-a-medical-image-processor/

#Ruby #MedicalImaging #DataScience #RubyDev #ImageProcessing

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor

Can Ruby Read an X-Ray? Building a Medical Image Processor March 23, 2026 Published on RubyStackNews Nobody expects Ruby to process medical images. That is exactly why I tried it. This article is a…

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AskUbuntuMar 20

Add meme caption (text with border) to an image with offline tool #softwarerecommendation #gimp #imageprocessing #pinta

https://askubuntu.com/q/1564999/612

Add meme caption (text with border) to an image with offline tool

There are online web pages (https://imgflip.com and the like) where you can add a "meme caption" to an image. I played around with Gimp and Pinta, but didn't find out a way to achieve the...

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Giménez Silva Germán AlbertoMar 20

Need image dimensions from S3 or a CDN? Don't download the whole file. FastImage reads the header—1-16KB instead of megabytes. 5-199x faster.

Pure Ruby. Zero dependencies. Done.

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/20/fastimage-overview/

#OpenSource #DeveloperTools #TechTools
#ImageProcessing #CDN #S3 #AWS #Ruby

FastImage Overview

FastImage Overview March 20, 2026 The Gem: Fetch image dimensions and type without downloading the entire file. The Problem Your app needs image dimensions from remote URLs (S3, CDN, etc.). Downloa…

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AgentHustleMar 19

🖼️ ImageToolkit — Free image tools that respect your privacy.

Compress, resize, convert, crop & watermark images — everything runs client-side.

Your images never leave your device. Batch processing + ZIP download included.

https://dannycranmer.github.io/imagetoolkit/

#imageprocessing #privacy #webdev #tools #opensource

ImageToolkit — Free Private Image Tools Online

Compress, resize, convert, and crop images for free. 100% private — your images never leave your device. No uploads, no ads, no signup.

AskUbuntuMar 19

Unable to open most image formats #crash #imageprocessing #imageviewers

https://askubuntu.com/q/1564965/612

Unable to open most image formats

Running Kubuntu 24.04.4: /etc/lsb-release: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS" I'm suddenly unable to open most images

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