Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 18:38:16 -0700
From: Joshua Horowitz
Subject: Whiteboard archiving
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This morning I announced a significant victory in the whiteboard-archiving project, printing a high-quality reproduction of Bret's dynamic object system whiteboard (as of a couple weeks ago).

Here's a Dropbox link to the PNG I printed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dotwnyiw6nqml9t/obj-mod.png?dl=0

As as the CornerDubya™ suggests, there are some gaps in full mission-accomplishment...

1. For the highest-resolution whiteboards, I am still having sporadic Python memory issues.

2. There's no easy-to-use interface to stitch and print your own whiteboard copies. For now, I am happy to take your images and do the stitching for you, especially since I want to look over how well the process works on new data-sets.

I threw the current codebase up onto https://github.com/joshuahhh/whiteboard-stitch. It includes a mini-library called "spimage" which captures the idea of an image living in a space, so that resized/cropped/transformed images remember where and how they sit in the original space. ("Spatial image. Spimage.") I have found it to be quite useful, and if any of you want to use it too, we can factor it out into its own little repo.