![]() in the Street Fighter II, a criminal overlord and would-be world dictator named M. Bison (Vega in the original Japanese), organizes a global underground fighting tournament to identify (and forcibly recruit) the world’s greatest fighters Interpol-affiliated fighters like Chun Li and Guile join the tournament to take down Bison from within, while dedicated martial artists like Ryu, Ken, and Sagat simply join in to take on powerful enemies and hone their martial artist skills. That Super Street Fighter II: Turbo update ended with the introduction of a difficult 1990s video game boss, Akuma (Gouki in the original Japanese), a mirror of Ryu who channels dark, murderous energies and attempts to corrupt Ryu along the same path. See also: Ryu has a beard in Street Fighter 6 and it’s just too much #Street fighter 6 chun li box update Prequel games like Street Fighter Alpha Series and sequels such as Street Fighter III, IVand the youngest v generally follow the same Enter the dragon template as Street Fighter II. A A supernaturally powerful antagonist hosts an underground martial arts tournament or hatches a dark plan based on the presence of martial artists and the ever-expanding character roster of the street fighter The universe enters battle for the sake of justice, profit, ambition, or the simple, sheer thrill of battle. The sandbox gameplay of street fighter 6 ‘s World Tour mode could turn that fighting game story formula on its head and give developers at Capcom a way to leverage the more exploratory storytelling approaches that video game designers have developed over the years. ![]() ![]() The announcement trailer for street fighter 6 revealed a list of street fighter Mainstays like Ryu, Chun Li, and Guile, along with newer characters like MMA fighter Luke Sullivan and drunk boxer Jamie. In the World Tour portion of the trailer, these characters are shown navigating a sprawling urban expanse known as Metro City, the home of Capcom final fight Franchise, a side-scrolling beat ’em’ up game about thugs, ninjas, cops and mayors fighting street gangs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It can even mean thrashing to hard-disk in case the number of workers times the amount of transferred data exceeds the available RAM. This can mean a lot of memory, networking bandwidth and time-consuming. This means that each of the data items needs to be serialized (i.e., copied in memory), packaged, communicated to and accepted by each of the workers. One of the things that is often overlooked in such simple loop transformations is that a large part of the data used within the loop needs to be copied ( broadcast) to each of the workers separately. ![]() On the other hand, it also hides a lot under the hood. This transformation was intentionally made simple by MathWorks (which is great!). In many cases, all we need to do is to add the “par” prefix to the for keyword and we’re done (assuming we have no incompatibly-used variables that should be converted into sliced variables etc.). ![]() It is often easy, too-easy, to convert for loops into parfor loops. So how can we let worker A run a different code path than worker B?Īn obvious answer is to create a parfor loop having as many elements as there are separate code paths, and use a switch-case mechanism to run the separate paths, as follows:ĭataList = ) But what if we wanted some workers to run a different code path than the other workers? In spmd blocks we could use a conditional based on the labindex value, but unfortunately labindex is always set to the same value 1 within parfor loops. Of course, we can always use conditional constructs (such as if or switch) based on the data. The conventional wisdom is that parfor loops (and loops in general) can only run a single code segment over all its iterations. Naturally, this specific tip is equally valid for both parfor loops and spmd blocks, since both of them use the pool of workers started by parpool. MATLAB is not using all logical cores because hyper-threading is enabled. MATLAB was assigned: 4 logical cores by the OS. I just know that in many cases I found it beneficial to reduce the number of workers to the actual number of physical cores: Maybe this is system-dependent, and maybe there is a switch somewhere that controls this, I don’t know. I know the documentation and configuration panel seem to imply that parpool uses the number of physical cores by default, but in my tests I have seen otherwise (namely, logical cores). Coupled with the non-negligible overhead of starting, coordinating and communicating with twice as many Matlab instances (workers are headless Matlab processes after all), we reach a conclusion that it may actually be better in many cases to use only as many workers as physical (not logical) cores. However, in many situations, hyperthreading does not improve the performance of a program and may even degrade it (I deliberately wish to avoid the heated debate over this: you can find endless discussions about it online and decide for yourself). ![]() On Intel CPUs, the OS reports two logical cores per each physical core due to hyper-threading, for a total of 4 workers on a dual-core machine. By default, Matlab creates as many workers as logical CPU cores. The first tip is to not use the default number of workers created by parpool (or matlabpool in R2013a or earlier). Furthermore, I limit myself only to parfor in this post: much can be said about spmd, GPU and other parallel constructs, but not today. In today’s post I will try not to reiterate the official tips, but rather those that I have not found mentioned elsewhere, and/or are not well-known (my apologies in advance if I missed an official mention of one or more of the following). Naturally, to use any of today’s tips, you need to have MathWorks’ Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT).īefore diving into the technical details, let me say that MathWorks has extensive documentation on PCT. The overall effect can be dramatic: The performance (speed) difference between a sub-optimal and optimized parfor‘ed code can be up to a full order of magnitude, depending on the specific situation. In today’s post I plan to expand on these tips, as well as provide a few others that for lack of space and time I did not mention in the presentation. During the presentation, I skimmed over a few tips for improving performance of parallel-processing ( parfor) loops. Matlab Expo 2016 keynote presentation A few days ago, MathWorks uploaded a video recording of my recent keynote presentation at the Matlab Expo 2016 in Munich, Germany. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emily proved to be the right person to partner with during this time: she's creative, fun, adaptable, and socially aware. 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And, it’s not uncommon for her parents to grace the stage for a song or two. And Noah Harrington, a lauded bassist who has played in Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, festivals across continents, and studied with luminaries such as David Hope, Kayhan Kalhour, Béla Fleck, Mike Marshall, and Julian Lage.Ĭome to a concert and you might see Alisa performing solo with her hollow body electric guitar, or harmonizing originals and jazz covers with Noah Harrington singing and playing upright bass, or turning up the volume and syncopation with the help of Jacob Thompson on drums and vocals sometimes, you might even encounter a horn or string section. Jacob Thompson, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter of his own right, who has collaborated with great songwriters across the country, from Grammy award-winner David Mullins to ASCAP award-winning singer-songwriter Erica Leigh. She picked up some incredible collaborators along the way. Alisa returned from Argentina with a renewed belief in the power of music to break down social, political, and emotional barriers and create a space where everyone belongs. Together they started an amplified band outfit that toured through Buenos Aires and the United States. Add a life-changing trip to Buenos Aires where she met the brilliant songwriter, Mica Ipiñazar and her husband Facundo Parla of the Argentine rock band, Rabiosa. That is part of a toxic culture.It was in green rooms, living room rehearsals, and cramped mini vans that Alisa Amador received her first musical education, singing backup vocals since the age of five for her parents’ Latin band, Sol y Canto.īut, how did Alisa’s sound grow into the Latin- Jazz- Soul and Blues-influenced folk rock that it is today? Start with years of jazz study, solo performance, and training in vocal harmony and improvisation all while pursuing a degree in gender studies at Bates College in central Maine. I used to think that was part of being a woman and now I’m like: No. Or, that man just told me I have a good voice but I have to be careful, because I can turn a lot of people on with my voice. Like, that guy just told me if he were 20 years younger he’d want to go on a date with me. And I’m not totally sure why.” Because I still saw experiencing that behavior as just part of the deal of being a woman. I would leave conversations and interactions saying, “Huh. Before I prioritized everyone else’s happiness and comfort over my own comfort. But being able to share this music gives me so much hope.Ī. Sometimes I don’t feel strong sometimes I just feel tired. I’m still learning how to listen to myself. When I come out of a conversation and say, “I don’t feel like I was respected” - now I have a vocabulary for it. Before I, the behaviors I accepted are so different from the behaviors I accept now. It’s so hard in so many ways that I’m still trying to understand. It must be hard being a woman in the music business.Ī. “Narratives” feels like a standing-up for yourself. In “Nada Que Ver,” the chorus is: “I want it to be a drop of honey/ for it to last longer than a paper airplane.” And I never would’ve come up with those words in English. ![]() In Spanish, the lyrics are more poetic because I have fewer words to draw from - I’ve read fewer books, listened to fewer people talking, so I don’t draw from tropes or phrases. Do you find it easier to write in Spanish or English?Ī. Now when I sit down to write, it’s either English or Spanish and I don’t know until I start. Before, I saw as this private coping mechanism - I didn’t conceptualize that people would want to play with me. In Buenos Aires, I played with a band for the first time. Something that changed me was a semester abroad to Argentina. ![]() It’s this helplessness feeling - like there’s nothing you can do to help them heal. A friend got really sick with mental illness, due to their being closeted. You started writing songs in high school. I started playing classical nylon-string guitar at 10, wanting to look and play like my dad who was a classical guitarist - but I was playing Don McLean’s “American Pie” and “Monster Mash”. ![]() ![]() I created a PHP function to extract the alpha channel from an image, and then to apply that alpha channel to another image. Imagetruecolortopalette($resizedImg, true, 250) Imagecopyresampled($resizedImg, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $wNew, $hNew, $w, $h) $resizedImg = imagecreatetruecolor($wNew, $hNew) $alpha = imagescale($alpha,$wNew,$hNew,IMG_NEAREST_NEIGHBOUR) Resize alpha to match resized source image Extract the alpha and save as greyscale for inspection printf("DEBUG: Replacing transparency at %d,%d\n",$x,$y) Printf("DEBUG: Target image is truecolour\n") ![]() If output image is truecolour, we can set alpha 0.127 Ensure all the lovely new alpha we create will be saved when written to PNG iterate over pixels replacing transparent ones with allocated transparent colour allocate transparent colour in palette // find a transparent colour in the palette iterate over pixels getting current color and just replacing alpha component I had a a bit more time to work out the full code to answer you - I have simplified what you had quite considerably and it seems to do what I think you want now! #!/usr/bin/php -f Also some pixel at the edge of the duck are converted in black pixel or in full-transparent pixel. ![]() It makes completely transparent all pixels with an alpha, also if this alpha is very low, see the shadow below the penguin. Only if the image has only pixels already completely transparent does it work very well (e.g. There are visible color banding in the penguin but the duck its ok (although sometimes the color tone is darker). Note: I put an underlying grid to better show the alpha. Let me do some tests with your responses, maybe there is a solution with only PHP. In phpinfo() results that the imagemagick module isn't installed. Unfortunately, I can't use ImageMagick because my code is in a shared hosting without it installed. In GIMP v.2.8.22 I can save an image for Web with these properties: PNG-8ĭither: Floyd-Steinberg / Floyd-Steinberg 2 / positionedĪnd it produce a reduced image almost identical of the original.Īlso pngquant, tinypng, and many others do the same work, but I need to do it with PHP. How can I make it work and to understand the reason for this strange behaviour? Imagecolortransparent($resizedImg, imagecolorat($resizedImg,0,0)) Īlso: others SO posts and some on the WebĪlso without resizing the image (removing imagecopyresampled and adapting the variables name) the result is the same. If(!imagepng($resizedImg, ($newPath) ?: null, 8)) return false Imagetruecolortopalette($resizedImg, true, 255) If(!imagecopyresampled($resizedImg, $originalImg, 0, 0, 0, 0, $xImgNew, $yImgNew, $xImg, $yImg)) return false copy content from originalImg to resizedImg If(!$resizedImg = imagecreatetruecolor($xImgNew, $yImgNew)) return false If(!$originalImg = imagecreatefrompng($originalPath)) return false If(!trim($originalPath) || !$xyOriginalPath = getimagesize("$originalPath")) return false The complete function's code: function resizePng($originalPath, $xImgNew='', $yImgNew='', $newPath='') If I set 256 colors instead of 255: imagetruecolortopalette($resizedImg, true, 256) Ī similar result occurs with this image (note the half transparency for the case with 255 colors): ![]() The resulting image is this, with the transparency all around and a little inside the image: If(!imagefill($resizedImg, 0, 0, $transparent)) return false $transparent = imagecolorallocatealpha($resizedImg, 255, 255, 255, 127) The problem is when I convert the image in 8 bit: imagetruecolortopalette($resizedImg, true, 255) The resize works perfectly, preserving also image transparency: So the size of the resulting file will be smaller but without too much quality loss. One of GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems.I'm trying to write a PHP script that resizes a PNG image and then converts it to PNG-8 bit mode. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is amazingly expandable and extensible – it is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, and so much more. Like Photoshop, GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, image construction, and has many other capabilities. GIMP is a digital photo manipulation tool for Windows (and many other platforms) that’s considered to be the open source (free) answer to Adobe Photoshop. ![]() ![]() ![]() The adult is mostly dark gray, rusty, and whitish in color. The gait on the ground is waddling and the feet are large and powerful. ![]() It has a generally elongated, slender shape, sometimes appearing bulkier due to the often hunched back of these birds. This species is relatively small-headed, although its neck is powerful and thick. ![]() Unlike most vultures, the bearded vulture does not have a bald head. The proportions of the species have been compared to a falcon, scaled to an enormous size. The tarsus is relatively small for the bird's size, at 8.8–10 cm (3.5–3.9 in). The tail is longer than the width of the wing. It is essentially unmistakable with other vultures or indeed other birds in flight due to its long, narrow wings, with the wing chord measuring 71.5–91 cm (28.1–35.8 in), and long, wedge-shaped tail, which measures 42.7–52 cm (16.8–20.5 in) in length. In Eurasia, vultures found around the Himalayas tend to be slightly larger than those from other mountain ranges. meridionalis of Africa averaging 5.7 kg (13 lb). Description Ī bearded vulture in the Puga valley in Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas Vultur barbatus was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae (1758). The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone. Females lay one or two eggs in mid-winter that hatch at the beginning of spring. It lives and breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, East Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Tibet, and the Caucasus. The bearded vulture population is thought to be in decline in 2004, it was classified on the IUCN Red List as least concern but has been listed as near threatened since 2014. It is vernacularly known as Homa, a divine bird in Iranian mythology. Although dissimilar, the Egyptian and bearded vulture each have a lozenge-shaped tail-unusual among birds of prey. It is not much more closely related to the Old World vultures proper than to, for example, hawks, and differs from the former by its feathered neck. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a separate minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture ( Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative. 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Lance Corporal is the third enlisted rank (E-3) in the Marine Corps. ![]() ![]() All kinds of things broke over the years, but the rachets wrenches did well. They lasted me 6 years! I still use some of those today. I started as a diesel tech with a set of Husky professionals. I have a special place in my heart for Husky tools. Tooth count – 90 count and a 4-degree arc.The 12-point design allows the wrench to work on 6-point, 12-point, star, square and even rounded fasteners The box end on these wrenches features built-in 90-tooth ratchets that only need a 4-degree arc swing to function. ![]() Not too shabby considering its full-time use, but others are better. I have to get them replaced once every 2 years. The one knock I have is the same as usual with some of the less expensive tools, they don’t seem to last as long for me. They have a great design and are easy to hold, have great balance, and profile. They will rebuild it if the damage is in the gearing and replace if it is in the handle. Handle design – Chrome vanadium steel.This is both metric and standard □ Check out the latest price on Amazon. The only question I have is how much are you willing to pay? This is an awesome ratcheting wrench, and you can’t go wrong with it. I do have Snap-on ratchet wrenches, but I don’t exclusively use them. I don’t think that there is enough quality to overcome the 300% price increase you get for the same tools. If you just need the convenience and name brand and are willing to drop some bread, this is a great pick. Just like other popular brand names, you pay a premium to have their stuff. While Snap-on quality is outstanding, this list is compiled by value for money. Some mechanics enjoy that the truck comes to you and saves you the extra hassle of going out. 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I would recommend these things to anyone, but the proof is in the pudding, as they say. GearWrench started this and really provides a good tool. I may have even abused them once or twice. I have had this exact set for years and I have yet to break one. Who makes the best ratcheting wrench set for the money? Coming in the top spot for me is the GearWrench 35720A-02. This set is really reliable. GearWrench 35720A-02 – Learn Diesels Top Pick – Best bang for the buck Skip To The Buyers Guide The top 3 are my best picks. All the specs that I compare are explained in the buyer’s guide at the bottom. These ratchet wrenches will vary in style and price points. ![]() I also wrote a complete tool guide if you’re interested. This list is compiled from a survey of 25 diesel techs and their favorite brands. But when you can buy American! All these tools are made well and have a lifetime warranty. 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