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![]() A framed image of your home makes a beautiful statement hanging on the wall and makes a great housewarming gift too! Learn how to make and personalize a watercolor portrait of any image using your phone. Christmas Centerpiece And Tablescape Ideas.This really is such a fun and easy project, and there’s so much potential for creating really unique, one of a kind pictures. How cute would it be to take a picture of your kids holding a sign like “Happy Mothers Day” or “Thank You” and using it to create a one of a kind card? What do you think? Too much paint on this one, or it looks ok?Īnother idea we had but haven’t worked on yet is to use a watercolored picture to create a custom card. ![]() We definitely used the most paint on this one, coloring pretty much the entire background. This picture of Sam on the beach doesn’t translate as well on camera as it does in person, but we still wanted to include it so you guys could see everything we worked on. We mostly focused on the flowers in this picture, and even though her dress was actually white, we decided to add a bit of color to it to make it pop.įor this picture of Molly, we painted her pretty pink headband, and just barely tinted her blanket. If you live in the Cincinnati/Northern Ky area and are looking for a photographer, she really is amazing. Check out her Facebook page to see more of her work. She’s incredibly talented and it doesn’t hurt that she has three adorable daughters to practice on. Sarah took my son Max’s newborn pictures, and I was in love with every single shot. My friend Sarah from Sarah Anne Photography took this sweet photo of her daughter and graciously allowed us to use it to practice our watercoloring technique. This photo is definitely my favorite out of all the pictures we worked on. I’m sure someone with better watercoloring skills than us could pull it off, but for us, just coloring the objects worked best. For instance, we tried coloring a persons lips in one photo, and it ended up looking a little clown-like. We also noticed that the pictures seemed to look better when we only added color to objects on or around the people in the photos, and not on the people themselves. You can always go back with a second coat and make it darker if you like, but this is one of those projects where less is usually more. ![]() We recommend adding color a little at a time. Just make sure you get a decent quality paper (we’re using 140 lb paper). But just about any watercolor paints and brush will work. The brushes are great for watercoloring, because they hold water in the handle, and when you squeeze the handle water is released into the tip of the brush. We used Loew Cornell Watercolor Paint, and these really neat Royal & Langnickel Aqua-Flo brushes. Then use watercolor paints to add some color. Next, print your photo onto watercolor paper. If you’re using Picmonkey for the first time, follow these steps to convert your color photo to black and white. ![]() There are several photo editing programs you can use. If the photo you’re using is a color photo, you will first need to convert it to black and white. (The BH&G article stated that you could use a laser printer, but we only tried it with a photo printer, so we’re unsure of the results with a regular laser printer. We have a HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart. ![]() To create the watercolor photographs, you will need a photo printer. We don’t have much experience with watercolors, or painting in general, but it didn’t take us long to get a technique down and create some pretty cool pictures. We originally saw this technique on Better Homes and Gardens website, and decided to give it a try. We are obsessed with this super simple technique for turning your regular photographs into watercolors. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. Available on mobile, web, desktop and in your Gmail account. ![]() ![]() Use Google chat to message a person or group. If you're a Workspace user, you will already have access to Google Chat, but if you're a free Gmail user, you'll have to wait for Google to eventually bring the feature to everyone once Hangouts is finally retired.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us Google Hangouts has been upgraded to Google Chat. Read more: Google Chat gets Calendar shortcut, pinned chats As part of that evolution, starting on September 8, 2021, any user who has enabled Chat in their Gmail settings will start to see the term ‘Rooms’ automatically updated to ‘Spaces’. Available on mobile, web, desktop and in your Gmail account. In June 2021, we announced that ‘Rooms’ in Google Chat would evolve to become ‘Spaces’. Meanwhile tapping the button to exit the “full screen” will let you create an old-school pop-out window at the bottom of the window - just like Google Talk and Hangouts used to. Google Hangouts has been upgraded to Google Chat. You can still move your mouse over the contact's profile image to show more details, but most users may prefer to simply use the full chat list, names included. A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests. You can also adjust the list of users in the chat list, to show only people's avatars - this will allow for more space in the chat window. To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. Tapping the button to exit the “full screen” will let you create an old-school pop-out window at the bottom of the window. ![]() ![]() ![]() Public reception for the carnivalesque fleets, however, was mixed. by artist Abbott Handerson Thayer in his 1909 book Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. Theories about disruptive coloration as camouflage had already been introduced in the U.S. Covert relates Wilkinson’s development of “dazzle” in Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, writing that after receiving Royal Navy permission to paint a ship, he “ found space for a Dazzle Department at the Royal Academy of Art in London.” There other artists got involved, including Edward Wadsworth, an outport officer and Vorticist artist (Vorticism being a British modernist art movement inspired by Cubism), who “supervised the painting of over 2,000 ships within one year.”ĭid dazzle camo actually work? It’s unclear.ĭazzle was soon adopted by the American Navy, with over 1,000 “razzle dazzle” plans for ships, and artists like Everett Warner and Thomas Hart Benton working on designs. The element of surprise was also a factor, literally dazzling viewers into confusion as to purpose of the strange vessel cruising past. ![]() The frenetic paint job could baffle a U-Boat gunner, who wouldn’t be able to tell the direction or shape of the ship through his periscope. ![]() Witnessing the carnage, artist and British naval officer Norman Wilkinson had an epiphany: “I suddenly got the idea that since it was impossible to paint a ship so that she could not be seen by a submarine, the extreme opposite was the answer - in other words to paint her, not for low visibility, but in such a way as to break up her form and thus confuse a submarine officer as to the course on which she was heading.” Thus “dazzle” camouflage - bold stripes, curves, and zig-zags in colors like black, white, blue, fuchsia, and green - was born. And unlike the U-Boats which could lurk beneath the waves, there was no hiding a ship with its smoke stacks and distinct silhouette, the changing light and colors of the sky and sea making camouflage futile. The campaign of submarine warfare torpedoed hundreds of vessels. In 1917, German U-Boat attacks on British ships seemed unstoppable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() legacy components, partner components, or components that have not been implemented yet. Also show components that are out of scope, i.e. important for understanding the architecture, but not necessarily part of it, e.g. Components that operate independently can stand alone, and those that work together to deliver a logical function can be grouped together. Group components logically by enclosing them in a box. ![]() Application Insights / Raygun, not part of the main data flow) perpendicular to the primary direction Tip 5: Group relevant components NET project) – data flows from top to bottom, with exceptions (e.g. Figure: Good example – SugarLearning (an Angular +. Where there are exceptions (for example data going to analytics or to/from partner sources) make these perpendicular to the primary data flow direction. Pick a direction for your data flow, and keep it consistent across all your documentation. It should be easy to tell at a glance which direction data flows in your diagram: left to right, right to left, top to bottom (recommended). This gives an overview of the whole application in one diagram. Figure: OK Example – Shows the technologies and data flows (from the data –> Azure Data Factory –>Azure Databricks –> Power BI). It should also show * how* the components of the architecture depend on each other for functionality, as well as upstream and downstream data dependencies. Your architecture diagram should show how the components of your solution fit together. NET dependency diagram shows code dependencies, but not the application’s architecture Tip 3: Show data dependencies and data flows See SSW rule: Do you generate the VS Dependency Graph? Figure: Bad Example – the. NET dependency diagram, but don’t use it here in place of the architecture diagram. If it adds value to your documentation (i.e., there is a specific reason to include it) you can include the. NET dependency diagram is a useful tool, but it drills down into a specific component of the solution (the code) while ignoring the rest of it (the infrastructure). NET Dependency Graph as a System Architecture Diagram The diagram needs to include the relationships between these components, and how they share and process data. – Matt Goldman, Software Architect Tip 1: Include your most important componentsĪt a minimum, your architecture diagram should include: Usually, the longer an architecture diagram takes you to make, the more important it is for your project. Depending on the complexity of your solution and your comfort/familiarity with the tools, an architecture diagram could take you anywhere from half an hour to a couple of days. Figure: Bad Example – a screenshot of the Azure resources used helps, but doesn’t show data flows or dependencies It is not used for user journeys or business logic. The purpose of the architecture diagram is to show how a solution has been built and what the technical dependencies are. ![]() – Patrick Zhao, Senior Software Architect When should you use it?Īn architecture diagram is a technical diagram that demonstrates the technology in use.
![]() ![]() It would also be good to use Python to generate a file and then trigger the C programme to display it. I am going to start looking at the C code and see if I can modify it play back a sequence of images from a directory. ![]() As long as you can generate the PPM files you can scroll whatever you like. The panel is great fun and the videos don’t really do it justice. Here is custom_ppm_images zip file with my custom PPM images if you want to try them. My next test was a small set of flags that looked something like this : The command below scrolled this nicely across the panel : sudo. My first custom graphic was a logo and some text : ppm extension and select “Raw” when prompted. In GIMP you can simply use “Export as”, use a filename with a. The width doesn’t matter as it is going to be scrolling horizontally. ![]() Use touch:bit as a controller for games on micro:bits LED matrix, or combine it with the. You start by loading or creating your source image and then re-sizing it so that it is only 32 pixels high. Six handy touch-sensitive buttons and LEDs for your micro:bit. I use the GIMP (it’s free!) and this file tpye is available via the “Export as” feature. If your panel is connected correctly and has enough power the “runtext.ppm” image will be scrolled across the screen for 20 seconds.Ĭreating your own graphics to scroll is really easy as long as you have an image editing application that can create Portable Pixmap Format (PPM). To get something on the panel you can try the including example image “runtext.ppm” : sudo. (if neither -d nor -t are supplied, waits for ) t : Run for these number of seconds, then exit. etc/init.d, but also when running without L : 'Large' display, composed out of 4 times 32x32 Which will display the available command line options : usage. Once compiled you can run the resulting executable using. Once extracted you can change to the subdirectory : cd rpi-rgb-led-matrix-master/Īnd then compile the code using : make Usage You can download the code to your Pi using : wget Īnd then unzip the archive using : unzip master.zip Lucky for me Henner Zeller has created a library of C code to drive this board via the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins and made it available on his rpi-rgb-led-matrix Github page. I tend to use Python so this makes it slightly outside my comfort zone. This makes it unsuitable for Python but better suited to C. You need a power source that can provide 5V with at least 2A.ĭriving the screen requires a lot of data to be sent to the screen on a constant basis. I used a RAVPower 10400mAh USB power bank to power it. It consists of the panel, a ribbon cable, a GPIO adapter and a power cable. I could only afford one so my screen is slightly smaller. This consists of 1024 RGB leds and is used as a building block for those large displays you see in stadiums. Uint16_t myBLACK = display.At the last Cambridge Jam I picked up a 32×32 LED matrix panel from SK Pang. Uint8_t display_draw_time=60 //30-70 is usually fine This defines the 'on' time of the display is us. PortMUX_TYPE timerMux = portMUX_INITIALIZER_UNLOCKED Creates a second buffer for backround drawing (doubles the required RAM) #define PxMATRIX_SPI_FREQUENCY 20000000 Defines the speed of the SPI bus (reducing this may help if you experience noisy images) Defines how long we display things by default Defines the buffer width / the maximum width of the matrix Defines the buffer height / the maximum height of the matrix This is how many color levels the display shows - the more the slower the update ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, you can drop files onto it, create new empty shelves, reopen previous shelf, see recent uploads, open preferences and more.ģ. Drag various kind of items onto the shelf, from files, including folders, documents, text snippets to even web images from your favourite browser.Ģ. Install Dropover - Easier Drag & Drop on your Mac using the same steps for Windows OS above.ġ. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The strptime function doesn't work with timestamps that consist of only a month and year. You use date and time variables to specify the format that matches string. Takes a human readable time, represented by a string, and parses the time into a UNIX timestamp using the format you specify. To return the date and time with subseconds and the time designator (the letter T) that precedes the time components of the format, use the %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%Q variables. The results are show the value 34 for week. The variables must be in quotations marks.įor example, to return the week of the year that an event occurred in, use the %V variable. To convert the UNIX time to some other format, you use the strftime function with the date and time format variables. ![]() ![]() The _time field is stored in UNIX time, even though it displays in a human readable format. The following example creates a single result using the from command. If the _time field value is 11:48:23, the value returned in the hour_min field is 11:48. | eval hour_min=strftime(_time, "%H:%M") The following example returns the hour and minute from the _time field. In these results the _time value is the date and time when the search was run.įor a complete list and descriptions of the format options you can use, see Using time variables in the SPL2 Search Manual. The following search uses the pow function to convert from nanoseconds to seconds: To convert from nanoseconds to seconds, divide the number by 10^9.To convert from microseconds to seconds, divide the number by 10^6.To convert from milliseconds to seconds, divide the number by 1000 or 10^3.You can use the pow function to convert the number. If the time is in milliseconds, microseconds, or nanoseconds you must convert the time into seconds. Use the first 10 digits of a UNIX time to use the time in seconds. This function takes a UNIX time value and renders the time as a string using the format specified. | where _time>relative_time(now(), AND _time,) | eval n=relative_time(now(), following example specifies an earliest time of 2 hours ago snapped to the hour and a latest time of 1 hour ago snapped to the hour: This function takes a UNIX time and a relative time specifier and returns the UNIX time value of the specifier applied to the time. | timechart count() by _time relative_time(,) | where (eventHour=curHour and eventMin > curMin - 30) or The event timestamp, in the _time field, is used to calculate the event hour (eventHour) and event minute (eventMin). You use the now() function to calculate the current hour (curHour) and current minute (curMin). If you are looking for events that occurred within the last 30 minutes you need to calculate the event hour, event minute, the current hour, and the current minute. | eval n=relative_time(now(), Extended example The following example determines the UNIX time value of the start of yesterday, based on the value of now(). You can use this function with the eval and where commands, in the WHERE clause of the from command, and as part of evaluation expressions with other commands. If you want to return the UNIX time when each result is returned, use the time() function instead. When used in a search, this function returns the UNIX time when the search is run. The time returned by the now() function is represented in UNIX time, or in seconds since Epoch time. The now() function is often used with other data and time functions. This function takes no arguments and returns the time that the search was started. The following list contains the functions that you can use to calculate dates and time.įor information about using string and numeric fields in functions, and nesting functions, see Overview of SPL2 eval functions. ![]() ![]() To talk with a project coordinator about booking KEC for your next event, call 865 686-3200 or email our booking office. Your personal event manager is empowered to facilitate your requests and figure out how to make them work.įrom corporate meetings and training seminars to consumer shows and community special events, the Knoxville Expo Center has the right space for you. Knoxville Expo Center 5441 Clinton Hwy, Knoxville, TN, United States Looking for a great way to spend a day or the weekend of August 12-13, 2023 If you are a gun collector, or are a hunting enthusiast, the gun show at Knoxville Expo Center in Knoxville, TN is a great place to spend some time. Promoters and exhibitors like working with KEC because it is privately-owned and locally-operated. 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