Another weird dithering experiment, I consider this one a failure.

This one was simulated annealing, trying to match a Gaussian blurred candidate image to the Gaussian blurred target image, with a tiny penalty for differing from the unblurred target pixels to keep it somewhat grounded in reality.

In the entirety of computing, has anyone ever actually been in a situation where (integer) mod (positive integer) = (negative integer) was desirable and not just some horrible edge case you needed to work around?

I wanted to try an experiment with dithering:

- Find the pixel in the image that hasn't been quantized yet that would result in the lowest quantization error, and quantize it.
- Distribute the residual error to all remaining pixels that haven't been quantized using inverse square distance.

I miss the good old days when you could start up BOINC on a cold winter day and warm yourself with literal math. Computers these days are too damned efficient.

Raising the entropy of my room with a space heater without helping to advance citizen science just seems wasteful.

I wanted to create a reusable Golang package for creating video files, and of course I needed a demo to test it. A lot of yak shaving later and I somehow have this completely over engineered Munching Square animation.

Trying to figure out what I want people to refer to me as online has been stressful.

I think I'm going to go with Amy, but now I'm wondering if I should update my email? PGP key? The [user] section of my .gitconfig?

My sympathies for anyone trying to change their legal name, that would break me.