First Glimpse at Cheese

Posted on 2007/04/29 08:39:08 (April 2007).

[Wednesday 25th April]
Chie was out for the evening, giving me another opportunity for another good few hours work on Cheese. It's really coming on now - and although it still doesn't do a huge amount (basically just two or three features) it's already at a stage where it is bordering on being useful.

So it's probably time for the first sneak preview (albeit just a screenshot). Have also written a short article about it over on stuffware.co.uk.

Other than that didn't really do much - knocked up a quick curry for dinner which was actually very nice (Quorn with madras curry paste, yoghurt and green beans).

NICE I LIKE IT!! Gimme300grams of Cheese please!

Posted by Lox at 2007/04/29 09:20:23.

presumably Cheese comes in metric and imperial ?

Posted by Kev at 2007/04/29 11:24:02.

If Cheese crashed my computer, would I be permitted to call it "Cheese on toast"?

Posted by Bryan at 2007/04/29 13:44:55.

Have written a bit more about cheese here:

http://www.stuffware.co.uk/articles/00000008.html

Posted by John at 2007/04/29 18:27:56.

Re: The write-up about developing Cheese

As someone who is restricted in programming to something like 10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
(well, almost!!!) this is all way over my head, but it is fascinating when you think just how much work, knowledge and thought goes into programs which we all use without a second thought. I think Photo Studio is a great program, it has certainly saved me a lot of time in picture processing for my "family and friends" online photo journal, and I am looking forward to seeing more of Cheese, John!

Posted by Bryan at 2007/04/30 00:04:55.

I have read the article, do you plan to unload the memory every time you use it to save the thumbs into it? I guess that even if the size is small, loading several times, say 100 pictures, will eat up quite a lot of RAM, although it will never kill the whole 1/2 gigs that seems to be the standard today.. Hence the question, will Cheese clean it up after it used it? Either than that I am just waiting to try it out! :)

Posted by Lox at 2007/04/30 06:44:20.

Oh I'm so glad you asked Lox - it is double buffered, one buffer for the best match so far, and one for the current attempt. Given that the thumbnail originated from the EXIF section we know the compressed thumbnail can never be larger than 64k (as the length field on JPEG markers is only two bytes). So the total memory used by my clever algorithm is a paltry 128k.

MNNNNNNNPH!

Posted by John at 2007/04/30 16:25:52.

John, I believe you seem to be making a mistake. You are supposed to create software that requires more and more memory and processor speed just to do the same things as 10 years ago so you can make people buy more hardware.... oh scratch that you don't work for Them anymore.. lol

Posted by Kev at 2007/04/30 21:14:37.

AHA! I see that the money that we spent to make you study was put to a good use! Bravo :D

Posted by Lox at 2007/05/01 06:16:16.

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