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FraKtus

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Software architect, fascinated by music visualization. http://blog.fraktus.com
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FraKtus··on Self-Replicating Functions
Congratulations, really cool and innovative! Have you looked into ArtMatic and how you can create a tree of functions ? It allows to create mutations that give results very similar to yours.
FraKtus··on The music business is growing again
Does the streaming services have finally started to pay artists ? Musicians always complained they received almost nothing from streaming... Looks like everybody is winning except the artist...
FraKtus··on Scenic Tram Simulator
The site seems down...
FraKtus··on IDA: What's new in 7.00
Hopper on the Mac is very nice an affordable, it did save me several time to understand undocumented features in some plugins...
FraKtus··on MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder
How does that compare with the sanitizers in Clang (Memory, Address .. ) ?
FraKtus··on Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products
Good point, it saved Apple at that time... still miss it. I also used it to learn coding for Windows from macOS. Their line for their cross compiling tools was funny "Being there without having your hands dirty" :-)
FraKtus··on Ask HN: How do you deal with piracy?
We use a service called link busters. They send DMCA to all sites having links to (fake ?) cracked versions of our software...
FraKtus··on Don’t ruin streaming by turning it into cable
There is a nice French service that is trying to regroup most french channels : molotov.tv But for me the nicest is the concept of their application that I use on Apple TV, the way they do replay, link to other shows on replay on the same channel... record your shows on the cloud...That's a nice evolution of streaming... Now, if something like that would exist in the US that would be a killer app!
FraKtus··on Japan’s ’golden coder’ making games apps aged 82 [video]
My first job was to work on some Jamma game boards in the 90s... Thanks to that I did learn assembly and how to create fast animations on small platforms. I left the field after a few years and started a company in the Live Event industry, we are doing media server / VJing software. I am 54 now and while I run the company I still code 50% of my time. Some of my younger colleagues wish I used more C++ and less C :-)
FraKtus··on App sizes are out of control
We released 2 apps on iOS and Android. One is 0.8 MB and the second just at 1.8 MB. Obviously we have not a lot of graphics embedded. We use mostly C and 2 cross platform projects SFML and Nuklear for the GUI. The GUI is more in the gaming style but for us it fits the bill and we render at 60 FPS on most devices including the iPad mini original of my daughter.
FraKtus··on WebGL Water (2011)
Nice!
FraKtus··on Qt Creator 4.3.0 released
Same here, we use a lot Qt but the macOS integration does give a feeling that it's not to important to them...
FraKtus··on Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing
Is that something like metasynth (http://www.metasynth.com) ? You import a picture and use it through FFT to generate sound ?
FraKtus··on The race to destroy space garbage
Amazing, thanks for sharing!
FraKtus··on It's not too late for slow parenting
My child did start speaking 2 languages (French and English) since she is 3 (she is now 6). She is in an environment where she is motivated to move forward and learn (a good school). But I am very careful to monitor her happiness and want to make sure she enjoy learning for herself...
FraKtus··on Tiny-dnn – A C++11 implementation of deep learning
Thank you!
FraKtus··on Tiny-dnn – A C++11 implementation of deep learning
Sorry if the question is not relevant but is that difficult to use that project to implement something like DeepDream (https://github.com/google/deepdream) ?
FraKtus··on OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center
We have one server with them as VIP and very happy about it, they react fast on support with a special team dedicated... we asked a quote for this server and they proposed several solutions.
FraKtus··on WxWidgets 3.1.0 Brings Better HiDPI Support, WxQt with Qt5
-> Better support for high DPI displays, especially under Windows

Really happy about this because it's becoming a serious issue if you support several variations of windows from XP to 10...

FraKtus··on Fourier Visualizations
Does not work on Safari 9.0.2 for me but nicely in Chrome...
FraKtus··on 36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build
Same here and shooting picture of kids in raw format needs space :-)
FraKtus··on Llvmpipe: The Jitted OpenGL software renderer inside Mesa
links does not work for me
FraKtus··on Why I Don’t Rely on Time Machine
I had exactly that story, disk crashed, time machine not working. Fortunately most of the data on the disk was ok and I had cloud backup as a second backup. For me Time Machine + Arq for online backup makes me feel safe...
FraKtus··on OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review
OpenGL is not improving in El Capitan and it's a problem for cross-platform developers.
FraKtus··on Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody
Nice, it run on Mac Yosemite but has problems on 10.8 probably because of OpenCV ...
FraKtus··on Pixel City – Procedurally generated city (2009) [video]
ArtMatic Voyager has amazing procedurally generated cities and landscapes: http://uisoftware.com/Voyager/index18.html It's based on a powerful texture engine to generate colors and height maps and the model is ray traced...
FraKtus··on A Brief History of Hardware Accelerated Decoding on Macs
There are 2 links at the end of the article but you can only download them if you went to WWDC…
FraKtus··on A Brief History of Hardware Accelerated Decoding on Macs
Nice info.

The article mention 3 SDKs, 10.6 10.8 and 10.10, what is the oldest Mac OS version allowing to use the Video Toolbox framework ?

Will using the higher level API AV foundation also give hardware acceleration ?

FraKtus··on Landing the Nostromo (1981)
Makes me want to re create that code today, the esthetic is very nice!
FraKtus··on An Algorithm to Extract Looping GIFs from Videos
I have done that, their email is on their papers … no reply
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