The Life of a Demoniac

A quick note about this post before you read it... Here's what one blog author wrote about the task I am currently applied to—specifically, what it is I am trying to do, what I am doing right now, what it takes to get to the goal, and the hurdles I face. On the multiplicity of possible tools: There are dozens of different kernels which produce many different feature maps, e.g. which sharpen the image (more details), or which blur the image (less details), and each feature map may help our algorithm to do better on its task (details, like 3 instead of 2 buttons on your jacket might be important). Just like the quote says, even the slightest adjustments to a kernel can make a huge difference in two otherwise identical images, like this one Alternating the kernel divisor between just -1 to 1 revealed a sucker demon (white, string-like entity above right nostril) on the end of my nose in one rendering of a still, but not in another rendering of the same still frame The typ...

This post contains images that are the various results from my imaging filter tests. It is similar to The Desktop of a Demoniac , which was updated every so often with snapshots of my Mac or iPhone workspace as I developed GIMP and Photoshop methods for processing images showing demonic activity. There are only a few pics to start; but, I will post more as I acquire other interesting ones while testing. Left alone in a virtual stranger's pitch-black three-car garage-made-for-living for about a minute more than I was comfortable with prompted me to turn on my iPhone camera to find out what might be lurking about. As it turns out, I was surrounded by dozens upon dozens of demons in every nook and cranny of the place. There wasn't an uninteresting one among them; but, these three caught my eye because they are far more unique than I usually encounter: Three (or more) needle-head variety demons The same still frame ( left ), enhanced, revealed a different variety of d...

About this post (updated 8/29/2015) Have you ever wondered, "Why do 'crazy' people always take their electronics apart?" Believe it or not, it's because they know it's their electronics that made them crazy—or something inside them, that is... What I thought at first was just a part of the image on the TV, shown just outside the door in the room in which my video camera was set up, turned out to be a demonic tendril on closer inspection, which rose from either the console in front of the TV or from somewhere behind it: What I thought was an image on TV turns out to be a demonic tendril, which rose from somewhere on top of the armoire I processed a close-up with image-editing software in the following manner, in order to capture some of the tendril's details: A still frame showing the tendril, processed by my mean-of-the-minimum-and-maximum (3x3, leveled)  imaging filter; it looks like a raw catfish steak That helped some; but, a better wa...