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Collage of Images

simon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:48:55 +0000

I wrote a Python script to turn all the images, in a directory, into one big collage image. The white bands are annoying – due to thumbnail size and most of my images being rectangular and not square (have since solved that problem). Here is the result of my photos from 2007 to now: view. It’s a 1MB file of about 1800 images.

Here’s another (with my code modifications done): view.

Feel free to critique my programming; it’s only my second Python script. There’s limited error-handling.

Here’s a handy one-liner (Mac OSX for me) to get all your images into one directory (I couldn’t be bothered to do recursion in my Python script):

find -iname "*.JPG" -print0 | xargs -0 -J% cp -i %

Still Snowing

simon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:07:02 +0000

Weather and currency

I’m also keeping an eye on currencies, especially the Yen – as I go there in April.

Blackbirds

simon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:55:02 +0000

We have some really friendly birds around here. I’m trying to get a robin and a blackbird to feed from my hand.

Here’s a picture of a blackbird:

Graffiti

simon — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:12:08 +0000

In case you haven’t heard of Banksy, then you should check out his website. I’m a fan of his style.

This is one (not Banksy), that I regularly see when I’m in Bremen:

Bremen graffiti

Back

simon — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:48:43 +0000

I’m back from two weeks in Ontario.

A few pics can be found on Flickr here.