After killing off Hot Stuff due to a server upgrade, I find that I'm kinda missing it!
So, I've decided to have a second stab at the problem and this time the code is much cleaner and faster. In particular, I'm using Bloglines to handle fetching all of the feeds and then grabbing the new [...]
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HotStuff 2.0
Dewey friend wheel
I've been meaning to have a stab at creating something similar to a friend wheel, but using library data, for a while now. Here's a prototype which uses our "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" data to try find strong borrowing relationships…
I picked three random Dewey numbers and hacked together a quick PerlMagick script [...]
Our books, arranged by Hue and Lightness
Sunday afternoons were made for doing this kind of thing…
(click here for the biggest version)
Several thousand of our books, arranged vertically by hue and horizontally by lightness. The value was calculated by finding the average colour of the book cover and then converting that to the relevant HSL value. There's a little bit [...]
"Spin, spin, spin the Wheel of Justice…"
Kudos if you automatically sang to yourself "…see how fast the bastard turns"
If you've no idea what I'm on about, then YouTube is your friend.
Anyway, I got to playing around with the OPAC keyword cloud data and ImageMagick and came up with this (reload that web page to get a new image)…
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"North by Northwest" squished
After reading Brendan Dawes' "Analog In, Digital Out", I've revisited the colours of "North by Northwest" (see earlier blog post).
Rather than squish every frame to a single horizontal line, this time each frame is squished vertically — see if you can spot the "crop duster" sequence:
( full sized version on Flickr )
More "In their own words"
Here's a few more…
Michael Stephens:
Helene Blowers:
David Lee King:
Meredith's book:
Librarians — in their own words
I've spent the last couple of days being inspired by Brendan Dawes' book "Analog In, Digital Out", and playing around with ImageMagick and PerlMagick.
This evening, I felt like doing something for Kathryn Greenhill to commiserate with her for not winning the "Best Librarian/Library Blog" Edublog awards, so here's what you get if you take ImageMagick, [...]
The Colours of North by Northwest
Colours, and the moods they evoke, play an important role in Hitchcock's films.
With that in mind, I got ImageMagick to figure out the average colour of each of the 1000 frames for "North by Northwest" — you can see the results here.
To put the average colours into context, here they are annotated with a selection [...]