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Peter Cooperx http://www.petercooper.co.uk/

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Patchwork quilt pattern in Ruby (from Knuth TAoCP 4 - 7.1.3)

In Donald Knuth's TAoCP Pre-Fascicle 1a: Bitwise Tricks and Techniques, he shows a patchwork quilt defined by f(x, y) = ((x ^ y) & ((y - 350) >> 3)) ** 2, designed by D. Sleator in 1976. I wanted to recreate this quilt myself using Ruby. The following program generates a PNG file of the "quilt."

require 'rubygems'
require 'png'

def f(x, y)
  ( (x ^ y) & ((y - 350) >> 3) ) ** 2
end

canvas = PNG::Canvas.new(500, 500)

0.upto(499) do |y|
  0.upto(499) do |x|
    canvas[x, 499 - y] = ((f(x, y) >> 12) & 1) == 1 ? PNG::Color::Black : PNG::Color::White
  end
end

png = PNG.new(canvas)
png.save 'pattern.png'

Installing libjpeg on OS X

Get http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz, and then:

tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a

Thumbnailer in Ruby and RMagick

require 'RMagick'

maxwidth = 120
maxheight = 160
aspectratio = maxwidth.to_f / maxheight.to_f
imgfile = 'world'

pic = Magick::Image.read(imgfile + '.jpg').first
imgwidth = pic.columns
imgheight = pic.rows
imgratio = imgwidth.to_f / imgheight.to_f
imgratio > aspectratio ? scaleratio = maxwidth.to_f / imgwidth : scaleratio = maxheight.to_f / imgheight
thumb = pic.resize(scaleratio)

white_bg = Magick::Image.new(maxwidth, thumb.height)
pic = white_bg.composite(thumb, Magick::CenterGravity, Magick::OverCompositeOp)
pic.write(imgfile + '.thumb.jpg')
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