technology
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Pixel Pal (PART 5) : Data augmentation
Pixel Pal is a project I have started whose purpose is to bring new life to old icon themes. Many old icon themes are in raster format and are not available for HiDPI screens (their resolution are too small). Currently the only way to handle old icon themes is to resample them by the desired…
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Pixel Pal (PART 4) : Training a model
Pixel Pal is a project I have started whose purpose is to bring new life to old icon themes. Many old icon themes are in raster format and are not available for HiDPI screens (their resolution are too small). Currently the only way to handle old icon themes is to resample them by the desired…
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Improving HiDPI support by upscaling icon themes with AI – Part 3
This article is part of a series about upscaling icon themes with AI. While this page is part 3, part 2 is available here and part 4 is available here. Pixel Pal is a project I have started whose purpose is to bring new life to old icon themes. Many old icon themes are in…
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Improving HiDPI support by upscaling icon themes with AI – Part 2
This article is part of a series about upscaling icon themes with AI. While this page is part 2, part 1 is available here and part 3 is available here. Pixel Pal is a project I have started whose purpose is to bring new life to old icon themes. Many old icon themes are in…
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Improving HiDPI support by upscaling icon themes with AI – Part 1
I am starting a new open source project. The goal is to solve a improve HiDPI support by upscaling icon themes with AI: old software usually rely on icon themes in raster format. These are not suitable for HiDPI screens. By relying on formats like JPG, PNG, …, low resolutions icon themes (e.g. 32×32) do…
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Popularity of Linux universal packaging formats
Counting the number of applications distributed as Snaps, Flatpaks or AppImages as a measure of the popularity of Linux universal packaging formats, let’s see how much existing Linux software has moved to Snap, Flatpak or AppImage. It should give us an idea of how successful these new packaging formats are with old open source projects.…