Category Archives: raph’s

Introducing Simple Font Renderer, FontTester

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Introducing an open source project, FontTester. A FLTK project GUI application that supports multi-platforms ( Windows, Linux, MacOSX ) with these libraries: Freetype2 and FLFTRender. Anybody can join to project, or write any issues, or just download prebuilt image at downloading page. It’s free. Test your TTF/TTC/OTF without install to… Read more »

Some reasons why beware Chinese SSD

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SSD generation Todays of SSD(solid state drive) market is grown up to most of computing device include personal PC are no longer installs HDD(hard disk drive) for booting drive except special cases. SSD interface is now advanced to NVMe (PCI express BUS) and speed been reached to over 2GB/sec in… Read more »

Strange belief about icc faster than gcc in 5 times ?

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There’s a company who believes intel compiler still the best option in the world, with assembly codes for x86 architecture cannot defeated by any different compilers. Maybe right for only Intel x86 with limited platforms like Windows and Linuxes. They were explained testing some audio and video processing code comapred… Read more »

0.45x wide & macro lens gadget for smartphone

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This 0.45x wide angle lens gadget came from Aliexpress, paid about 4 USD except shipping fee. Much bigger than I expected, and it’s outter filter radial is 43mm. Yes, it’s big lens gadget, so big. Each lens parts can be seperated as macro and 0.45x attachement concave glass. See below:… Read more »

Apexel smartphone 110′ wide lens gadget

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Apexel 110′ wide lens for smartphones ( actually suitable for iPhone ) makes default single camera more wider than designed by manufacturer. So this smart gadget can save money to upgrade our smartphone. Appearance This gadget able to be mounted on rear or back where lens placed near about 10cm… Read more »

A short review of Redmi note 8

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“Redmi” is a new minor brand name of “Xiaomi”, yes – “Xiaomi Redmi” became a shortly name of “Redmi” and equals same meaning. Their 8th “Redmi” are each of  “Note 8” and “Note 8 pro” was released to market since a few months ago in version of “Global”. I’ve been… Read more »

New embedded system coming out

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My new embedded system based on Rockchip RK3399 is now stepping to next version. Rebuilt all kernel for maximum performance at processing high quality raw images from quad(2×2) MIPI-CSI2 cameras. This new board aquires double channels of dual high speed 5Mpixel MIPI-CSI2 camera in data bus bandwidth in 6Gbps for… Read more »

Super Resolution Convolution Neuron Network engine updated – libsrcnn

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My old libsrcnn experimentally updated for doing scaling with stepping sequence in multiply ratio 2.0 for solve some issues belong to original source. ShuWang’s OpenCV codes was just seems to belong to matlab, and I had advanced code with OpenMP then native C++ that runs all almost platform with g++… Read more »

Artist Seok-ga’s “Together, KOREA”

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An artist Seok-ga’s new graphic art “Together, Korea” published on DDanzi forum. He explained his new art with this message, Hello everyone, this is Seok-ga who draws picture. I drew a new picture with some kind of music ( maybe I became an musician ? ) Here I uploads a… Read more »

Realtek r8156 2.5GbE USB network performance

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Test base: System #1 Rock960B debian stretcch aarch64, RK3399 @ Performance governor, 1.4GHz x 4 + 1.8GHz x 2 Kernel customized from ‘stable-4.4.-rk3399-linux-v2.1x’ Board configured for 4GB DDR3, 32GB eMMC 5.1 System #2 Intel i7-7700 @ 3.6GHz , 32GB DDR4, Windows 10 Condition Dual r8156 USB3.1 2.5GbE adaptors connected directly…. Read more »