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Pat David
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Pat David's personal blog at patdavid.net covers design and programming. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pat David's blog for GIMP tutorials, such as heal and content-aware editing, plus image-processing posts on ImageMagick contact sheets and median-based noise removal in photos.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-07
What Hacker News says?
One interesting application of taking the value appearing in majority, or more generally taking the median, is to remove noise or people from a sequence of several photos taken from the same point of view. This idea is to superimpose all the photos, and for each pixel, you simply keep the median [1]. [1]: https://patdavid.net/2013/05/noise-removal-in-photos-with-me...
Comment linking /2013/05/noise-removal-in-photos-with-median_6/
on “Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds”Submitted Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionfor content aware fill and heal brush both GMIC ( https://patdavid.net/2014/02/getting-around-in-gimp-gmic-inp... ) and resynthetizer ( http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer ) are working quite OK.
Comment linking /2014/02/getting-around-in-gimp-gmic-inpainting.html
on “Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation”Submitted Displaying a Big HTML Table as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can learn all about contact sheets here: https://patdavid.net/2013/04/using-imagemagick-to-create-con...
Comment linking /2013/04/using-imagemagick-to-create-contact.html
on “Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013)”Submitted Anubis and Caddy-Docker-Proxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's some nice GIMP tutorials here with good showcasing. https://pixls.us/articles I believe written by GIMP contributors.. including Pat David who did a ton of older and a bit less polished ones here: https://patdavid.net/getting-around-in-gimp/ (for example this good one from 2012 https://patdavid.net/2012/08/getting-around-in-gimp-heal-sel... )
Comment linking /2012/08/getting-around-in-gimp-heal-selection/
on “Gimp Turns 27”Submitted Ubuntu SSH Ads (2018) as a story · 2 points
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