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    <title>Blog &#8212; CMBuckley.co.uk</title>
    <link>http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/</link>
    <description>Shameless self-promotion</description>
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      <title>Comic Day</title>
      <description>At our last day at work before Christmas &#38;mdash; oh yeah, I got a job by the way &#38;mdash; we decided to have a go at some comics after seeing some &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.pandyland.net/comics/index.php?num=20&#34;&#62;crazy&#60;/a&#62; &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.pandyland.net/comics/index.php?num=27&#34;&#62;comics&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
at &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.pandyland.net/comics/index.php?num=29&#34;&#62;Pandyland&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;br /&#62;
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The rules? A maximum of 4 panels, and use some base imaging software. That&#38;rsquo;s it! Here are the efforts:&#60;br /&#62;
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&#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/comics/a.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox[comics]&#34; title=&#34;Aubrey&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/comics/a.png&#34; alt=&#34;&#38;lt;a href=&#38;quot;http://www.irunforasthma.org.uk/&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Aubrey&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt;&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62; &#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/comics/j.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox[comics]&#34; title=&#34;James&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/comics/j.png&#34; alt=&#34;&#38;lt;a href=&#38;quot;http://www.monkeymagician.co.uk/&#38;quot;&#38;gt;James&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt;&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/comics/b.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox[comics]&#34; title=&#34;Bux&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/comics/b.png&#34; alt=&#34;Bux&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62; &#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/comics/d.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox[comics]&#34; title=&#34;Dave&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/comics/d.png&#34; alt=&#34;&#38;lt;a href=&#38;quot;http://www.davemoorhouse.co.uk/&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Dave&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt;&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/comics/s.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox[comics]&#34; title=&#34;Sorrel&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/comics/s.png&#34; alt=&#34;&#38;lt;a href=&#38;quot;http://www.turtledesigns.co.uk/&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Sorrel&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt;&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62; &#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/comics/r.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox[comics]&#34; title=&#34;Rich&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/comics/r.png&#34; alt=&#34;&#38;lt;a href=&#38;quot;http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Rich&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt;&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
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Yes, I&#38;rsquo;m aware mine bears more than a little similarity to &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.explosm.net/comics/&#34;&#62;Cyanide and Happiness&#60;/a&#62;, but that&#38;rsquo;s because I have very little imagination and graphics skills&#38;hellip;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:38:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2007/12/21/comic-day/</link>
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      <title>Ooh, Vector Art</title>
      <description>Today I &#60;a href=&#34;http://stumbleupon.com&#34;&#62;stumbled&#60;/a&#62; upon this vectorising tool, called &#60;a href=&#34;http://textorizer.whatfettle.com/&#34;&#62;textorizer&#60;/a&#62;, that converts images into &#60;acronym title=&#34;Scalable Vector Graphics&#34;&#62;SVG&#60;/acronym&#62; format. You can specify your own text and size, as well as playing around with the edge-finding sensitivity.&#60;br /&#62;
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Here&#38;rsquo;s the result on the &#60;a href=&#34;http://images.scholesmafia.co.uk/rss_logo.png&#34;&#62;logo&#60;/a&#62; used on my &#60;acronym title=&#34;Really Simple Syndication&#34;&#62;RSS&#60;/acronym&#62; feeds:&#60;br /&#62;
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&#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/rss_logo.svg.png&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox&#34; title=&#34;Vectorised version of RSS logo, using the text &#38;ldquo;bux&#38;rdquo;, 1000 strokes, 100 threshold, and 800&#38;times;600.&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/rss_logo.svg.png&#34; alt=&#34;Vectorised version of RSS logo, using the text &#38;amp;ldquo;bux&#38;amp;rdquo;, 1000 strokes, 100 threshold, and 800&#38;amp;times;600.&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
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Obviously it works less well for full-depth images, but messing around with the threshold helps. Have fun!&#60;br /&#62;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 22:49:00 BST</pubDate>
      <link>http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2007/05/10/ooh-vector-art/</link>
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      <title>Mosaic Images</title>
      <description>Whilst browsing the &#60;a href=&#34;http://developers.facebook.com/products.php&#34;&#62;Facebook Developers&#38;rsquo; Directory&#60;/a&#62;, I happened upon a product called Photomosaic (thankfully not guilty of &#60;a href=&#34;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase&#34;&#62;CamelCase&#60;/a&#62;). The product offered to create a mosaic of a profile picture using friends&#38;rsquo; profile pictures. Being rather frustrated to find that it didn&#38;rsquo;t work, I set out to find a program to do it for me, and found &#60;a href=&#34;http://andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/&#34;&#62;AndreaMosaic&#60;/a&#62; (who &#60;em&#62;are&#60;/em&#62; guilty of CamelCase).&#60;br /&#62;
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This is the result, a mosaic of 3600 images from my &#60;a href=&#34;http://pictures.scholesmafia.co.uk/&#34;&#62;pictures collection&#60;/a&#62;:&#60;br /&#62;
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&#60;a href=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/mosaic.jpg&#34; rel=&#34;lightbox&#34; title=&#34;3600-tile mosaic. The full-size image image is over 25MB!&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/images/thumbs/mosaic.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;3600-tile mosaic. The &#38;lt;a href=&#38;quot;http://cmbuckley.co.uk/graphics/mosaic.jpg&#38;quot;&#38;gt;full-size image&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt; image is over 25MB!&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62;
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Anyone who wants to down the &#60;a href=&#34;http://cmbuckley.co.uk/graphics/mosaic.jpg&#34;&#62;full-size image&#60;/a&#62; may do so, but be warned that it&#38;rsquo;s over 25MB!</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:45:50 BST</pubDate>
      <link>http://blog.cmbuckley.co.uk/2006/09/06/mosaic-images/</link>
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