Another maintenance release of Roundup, my issue tracking software, is out.
Still plugging away at the 0.6 codebase, but slowly - at the moment I'm
focused on work and a little bit of PyPI.
On the PyPI subject, I got the trove
classifier editing part of the form going on the train this morning. I
spent the last bit of the
trip in the city loop (Melbourne's underground train line that just
loops around the CBD) implementing a "latest changes" view and then an
RSS feed. All of this is now installed on the test server.
Autotrace is a very cool
program that, with some tweaking, can produce some very interesting imagery
from regular bitmap images (eg. JPEGs). The output is a vector-based image
(I've output to PDF) - that
means that it's croppable, scalable and printable without a loss of
quality. I've collected some of the images
from my daily photo collection and autotraced them
here.
I've found that the saturated images that the crappy digital camera
produces actually work quite well with the tracing. I think that for a while
I'm going to actively look for shots that would translate well. Assuming
the crappy camera doesn't eat the images before I can download
them, that is ;)
The results (PDF and a PNG screengrab from kghostview) are over
here...
thanks
acb
for the pointer.
