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Ever since this version of my site went live I've been meaning to post about
the generation of the monochrome thumbnails on the [front page](/). When I was
building the site I wanted to include recent items from my Flickr photostream
but didn't like the look of all the colour on a otherwise mostly monochrome
page.
Ever since this version of my site went live I've been meaning to
post about the generation of the monochrome thumbnails on the [front page](/).
When I was building the site I wanted to include recent items
from my Flickr photostream. However with the predominantly monochrome
design I didn't like the look of all the colour they added. So I looked into
having monochrome versions of the thumbnails shown.
The first thing I investigated was Javascript image processing libraries. The
only main contender in that space was [xxx]. It worked but its cross browser
only main contender in that space was [Pixastic]. It worked but its cross browser
support wasn't great at the time. So I moved on to writing a tool that I
could run locally.
[xxx]:
[Pixastic]: http://pixastic.com/
I decided the tool should generate a single image with
both the colour and monochrome versions in it (a technique known as spriting).
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tool that used the Flickr API to get the details of the last twenty images in
my photostream, fetch them and then use Core Image to convert them to
monochrome, add both the colour and monochrome versions to the output image and
save the result.
finally save the result.
This worked great, however when I stopped hosting my site on my Mac I thought I
would need to run the process periodically on my Linux server, which ruled out
@ -26,20 +27,20 @@ Core Image. I took this as another opportunity to learn something new and
rewrote it in Lua using imlib2 bindings. I had to make some additions to the
imlib bindings, which are [published on GitHub][luaimlib].
[luaimlib]:
[luaimlib]: https://github.com/wezm/lua-imlib2
I used the Lua version for some
time but never bothered to set it up on the server since I wasn't uploading
photos all that frequently and it was simple enough to run locally and rsync
the result. I've recently switched back to the Mac version as it was simpler to
get up and running on my new laptop.
I used the Lua version for some time but never bothered to set it up
on the server. I wasn't uploading photos all that frequently and it
was simple enough to run locally and rsync the result. I've recently
switched back to the Mac version as it was simpler to get up and running
on my new laptop.
The [code is on GitHub][code] if anyone wants to do something similar. The
Cocoa version is on the master branch, the Lua version is on the
[lua branch].
[code]: https://
[lua-branch]:
[code]: https://github.com/wezm/monothumb
[lua-branch]: https://github.com/wezm/monothumb/lua
The current version of the processed thumbnails is shown below.

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extra: Generating monochrome thumbnails with a color rollover from my Flickr feed
kind: article
section: technical
created_at: 2011-06-08 08:20:00
created_at: 2011-08-27 18:54:00
keywords:
- typing
- image
- processing
- lua
- core
- monochrome