Blurt!Commonplace Book

printing

“This was miraculous. Messing with the FFT removed the [halftone] dots and nothing else — the image was still very sharp, especially if you compare it to the naïve blurring method.”

posted Aug. 6, 2022, 8:00pm

“The innovation that Johannes Gutenberg is said to have created was small metal pieces with raised backwards letters, arranged in a frame, coated with ink, and pressed to a piece of paper, which allowed books to be printed more quickly. But Choe Yun-ui did that—and he did it 150 years before Gutenberg was even born.”

posted Feb. 20, 2020, 8:38pm