You can convert old images — think logos, clip art and scanned sketches — into clean vector graphics with Super Vectorizer Pro. A lifetime license to the app, available for Mac and Windows, is on sale ...

Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I've been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count. All I know for sure is that I programmed the ...

There are a few open source tools around that do bitmap -> vector tracing, for instance potrace which is the engine used by Inkscape and also has available python bindings (pypotrace). But sometimes, ...

Abstract: We are concerned with the problem of counting the distinct flows on a high speed network link. Flow counting programs, which must peek at all incoming packets, must run very quickly in order ...

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Abstract: Visualization designers regularly use color to encode quantitative or categorical data. However, visualizations “in the wild” often violate perceptual color design principles and may only be ...

Monochrome, grayscale, color With vertical and horizontal orientation of bytes 8, 16, 24, 32-bit data 1...32 bits per pixel and other, not limited by some particular models This program is free ...