Ok, so last post I said it was too late and I'd post about the project I was currently working on once I was more awake, and now it's 2 weeks later with no post...

Lately university prepping has been a bit OTT, I've been sleeping lots, I bought Bioshock which took a chunk of time from my days and many more excuses. However I guess I can show you some of the stuff I've been toying with, because anyone who reads this is nice in my books and thus I'll give nice people as much info as I can

Image filters

Last time I posted I said "I do have something of mild interest", well, I was playing round with image filters in none other than my good old friend PHP/GD.

Yes I do know, before I get all the annoying people complaining at me, that using PHP and the GD lib will be very slow and really is a rather silly idea. However I wanted to learn about image filters, not about new languages and optimisation techniques! This script is simply just one of those "Because I can" moments, it's not a "Oh yeah, check my sweet codes that run uber fast" moments.

Anyway, it all started when I was going to make a face detector. I was then going to try and cut out the face, edge it, cut it in half and fold it over with an XOR filter or similar. That way I could try and make a guess how symmetrical the face was and from that how ugly a person might be, it was a foolish plan that would never work but I assumed it would keep me busy for a while. And that it did!

I gave up pretty soon into the face detection process and veered off into working on the filters that were needed. Soon I had a rather spiffy Median filter and that got optimised a bit, tweaked, improved to filter edges...all that jazz.

Then I made some other filters and even started thinking about a dithering one but not finished it yet (so far it's just a palmer-created-bad-dither filter).

Anyway, if you want the source look here: http://sandbox.palmnet.me.uk/testbox/codebox/index.php?module=snippet&id=46

And here it is in action:

Spunge

Spunge is still early in development but is either going to be a cheap and cheerful CMS that's stripped down a reasonable amount for easy modding yet has a few features to keep users happy or it's going to end up as a rather funky web dev framework.

PWnet has a few clients who all need pretty much the same thing and Spunge is hopefully going to be the product from Palmnet that they can use for blogs, news, shops, pages and other general site stuff.

More about that perhaps when I get it to do something interesting!