Robots Will Be Our Superiors

MS Paint, the old standby that has been packaged with Windows since 1.0, got its first major face lift in many, many years with Windows 7.  Despite the inclusion of the ribbon-style interface, they’re all for the better.  Some “realistic” brush types were included, which make drawing and digital painting much easier.  One of the nicest inclusions was pressure sensitivity to support drawing tablets.  I did this freehand (you can tell it’s freehand because I can’t draw basic geometric shapes, like circles).  Not too shabby for MS Paint.

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I had some fun at Road America this weekend  with my dad, not only seeing some great racing but also figuring out a slew of features on my camera.  Example: I had no idea that my camera had a burst mode (lots of pictures really quickly).  I ended up taking 786 pictures over two days, which is pretty easy when you can take 15 pictures in less than two seconds.

Anywho, I took a bunch of pictures at a few different locations in the track with the thought of stitching them together in GIMP and creating some panorama shots.  It turns out there’s a program that does that for you automatically, and it’s stupid simple to use.  The following pictures were done with Autostitch.  Had I know I could have gotten such good results, I probably would have taken a lot more (and perhaps tried a little harder regarding the actual shots).

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Heh, note the guy in the above picture that appears twice.

Here’s some fun I had with GIMP a long time ago.  I was rooting around some old directories and found the following pictures.  The first picture is the original; so all the changes involved removing objects, not adding them.

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I haven’t posted or done… anything for a while.  Why?  See my previous entry.

Speaking of lazy, here’s my latest comic!  (I actually took some new pictures for the next one, I promise.)

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I had this pretty sweet picture right here set as my desktop:

But decided that it would be much cooler if it had a Honda Element instead of a rally car.

I edited the Element in over the rally car, taking out the necessary bits of the rally car to make the image look right.  Someone mentioned that it looked goofy with no driver, so I had a coworker take my picture right quick, and this is what I ended up with:

Classy.

Ooh, two posts in one day.  Note that I didn’t say that I drew the robot.  I just traced it in GIMP.  I can’t draw that well, don’t be silly.

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