OpenEuphoria

Re: Gallery Maker

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 26, 2005
• 451 views

Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks, Al.  I was looking at your programs in the archive and I saw the jpeg
> decompressor
> although I haven't checked it out yet.  I will do so.
> 
> I'm interested in compression techniques but without the advanced math
> background I
> sometimes have a difficult time understanding it.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> BTW, what does your tagline "I brake for LED's" mean?  Are you a hardware guy?
>  I'm
> an electronics tech by profession myself.
> 
> =====================================
> Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
> 
> j.
> 

Hi again Jason,

The 'advanced math' all eventually boils down to a bunch of multiplications
and additions :)  The only thing advanced might be the 'Inverse Discreet
Cosine Transform' which is my own version i developed from an Inverse
Fourier Transform, but it still ends up being a bunch of multiplies and
additions within a loop or two in the program.

"I brake for LED's" is a sort of joke like a bumper sticker that
some people have on their cars that says "i brake for animals" or
something like that, which might indicate that i like LED's.
Since the creation of the white LED i've found these devices 
very useful for various lighting applications so i've sort of 
grown attached to them.  Yes, i've worked with lots of hardware
(as well as software) and even took part in the design of an
original CPU that took up a whole pc card
back when CPU's chips were first coming into the picture (pre 1980).
Talking about hardware and electronics/electrical stuff, i've also
got a 'functional' calculator in the archives that comes with some
EE formulas you might be interested in (Ohm's Law, magnetic core
formulas, etc).  It's called "InPlace Scientific Calculator and Server"
because you can use it as a calculator OR a server to your own program
(and it even has an appointment calendar built in   ).
You can easily add your own formulas too and save everything to a file.
Im mentioning this because since you work with electronics many of the
formulas would be useful to you.


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"