links for 2010-02-24

• Anthony Bourdain's 13 Places to Eat Before You Die – Guide | nextstop.com
  I did not create this list, and I didn't write a word of content. I just thought it would be a good reference for not only myself, but for anyone reading it. The article can be found here: http://www.slashfood.com/2009/06/03/anthony-bourdains-13-places-to-eat-before-you-die/ Anthony Bourdain is the host of the Travel Channel's 'No Reservations.'
  (tags: food bucket)
• Local Government Broadcasting of Public Meetings
  Washington State Cities
  (tags: webcast government transparency)
• Gamma error in picture scaling
  There is an important error in most photography scaling algorithms. All software tested have the problem: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, CinePaint, Nip2, ImageMagick, GQview, Eye of Gnome, Paint and Krita. Also three different operating systems were used: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. These exceptions have subsequently been reported: the Netpbm toolkit for graphic manipulations, the developping GEGL toolkit, 32 bit encoded images in Photoshop CS3, the latest version of Image Analyzer, the image exporters in Aperture 1.5.6, the latest version of Rendera, Adobe Lightroom 1.4.1, Pixelmator for Mac OS X, Paint Shop Pro X2 and the Preview app in Mac OS X starting from version 10.6.

  Photographs that have been scaled with these software have been degradated. The degradation is often faint but probably most pictures contain at least an array where the degradation is clearly visible. I suppose this happens since the first versions of these software, maybe 20 years ago.

  (tags: graphics gamma photography scaling image algorithm color)

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