vid2emoji
A software tool for converting video to emojis
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Videosplatter
The visual look and feel of movies is something that interests me. So I built a tool to visualize it.
Videosplatter is a tool to splat a video file into a mosaic of individual frames. It shows you at a glance the look and feel of the entire video.
You …
Missed shot leaders in the NBA
It's widely known that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time leading scorer in the NBA, and LeBron stands a good chance of passing him when all is said and done.
What I've never seen before, is who is the all-time missed shots scoring leader? As in, who has missed the most …
Slay the Spire statistical analysis
Slay the Spire is a single-player strategy card game I enjoy. In it, you build a card deck to defeat successively harder enemies as you move up levels in the Spire.
I recently learned that they released a huge data dump of runs from real-world play.
The data set
It's …
Shaq's finals streak
I saw a statistic that at least one of Shaq's teammates has played in the NBA Finals every year for 37 years straight and counting. That sounds like a lot! For one thing, it starts 9 years before Shaq got in the league.
It got me wondering what the longest …
Dark backgrounds, light backgrounds, and OCR
One of my favorite parts to build in APSE was the way it handles light and dark backgrounds. Text recognition algorithms are tuned for black letters on a white background, like a printed page:
Usually this isn't a problem, because you can invert the colors if an image has light …
Shutting down projects
Two of the older projects I have run for some time now are Needs More Lens Flare, a toy web app for automatically adding lens flare to photos, and Drone Stable, a more robust web application for automatically stabilizing aerial (or any kind of) video.
I am afraid I don't …
Debugging dynamic querysets in Django
Class-based views in Django are super handy. Among other things, you can create a view listing all instances of a model with about two lines of code.
One of the features of this ListView is the ability to customize the queryset used to populate the view. Suppose you wanted a …
James Webb Space Telescope Countdown
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the next big thing in space-based observatories. The project will enable never-been-done-before research, revealing astronomy and physics discoveries about dark matter, our galaxy, and more.
It has been in the news for delays in its launch schedule. If you ever need to know how …
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