The Life of a Demoniac

There are a lot of developers (or would-be developers) interested in finding a foothold in the world of Apple Metal, but are stymied from the start by lack of adequate documentation and simple examples. While Apple's claim that MetalKit was built just for those developers, it has failed to provide sample code comprehensible to the newbie. A dark room, as it appears in the Camera app for iPhone The same room, after applying the histogram equalization Metal Performance Shader This post should remedy that by showing beginners how to use MetalKit to display video frames from the camera on iPhone using Metal, both with Metal Performance Shaders (pre-packaged code) and Metal Shaders (hand-coded). The first app uses the histogram equalization Metal Performance Shader; the second app uses a Metal pass-through shader only. A steep learning curve for all image-processing frameworks—vImage, OpenGL, etc—is what is extending the development time for Chroma (an app I...

Just posting the pics for now; but, also, a quick note about the image quality and the technique used to acquire an image of an invisible demon on the attack: I know the image is blurred by motion — that's intentional. It's how you capture the light reflected from a demon's cloak (by moving the camera). The light contains so few photons, you have to "scoop" extra light to see it. Running the camera sensor through an emission of photons collects more of them than if you hold it still. That's how you get the blur from the uncloaked objects (by collecting extra photons). It's digital over-exposure, if you will. If I hadn't moved the camera, I would never have seen the face— just as the demon intended. It's a technique to make visible what is otherwise invisible. Why would I not use this technique ? Everybody should use it to determine whether a malevolent entity has taken an aggressive stance (i.e., cloaked) against them in their home. Moving th...

I've never met a victim first beginning to recognize their demon problem as a serious one who thought the solution would be easy. Typically, newly awakened victims believe that it would be so difficult to implement, it would be outside of their means to affect it by themselves; however, moving—the ultimate solution to their problem at that early stage of its cognizance—is definitely within the means of most victims at that time, when resources are being depleted, but remain somewhat available, and while health and youth affords a greater endurance and stamina for undertaking a new life in a new town. Unfortunately, that is the hardest time for victims to take that step. Moving can alleviate problems like decapitation by demons as shown (in part) by this still frame, which was taken from a video showing my head in the clutches of a demon's claw. He is reattaching it after having severed it, apparently (also shown on video,  below) [ search for decapitation-related posts ]....

This post contains a conversation initiated by a complete stranger via my The Life of a Demoniac Facebook Page  today. It hasn't gone any further than what is shown here, yet was posted by merit of the fact that, unlike nearly everyone else for the past 14 years with the knowledge the reader demonstrates, he didn't act oblivious or ignorant things to the point of mocking when communicating with me. Even though he did tease a bit by abandoning the conversation at the point in which he did, it was still refreshing that he was not afraid to show his thorough understanding of the consequences of the problem and the means by which they are derived; and, best of all, he didn't skirt the truth on the most consequential aspect there is to this problem, specifically, that  my dope = your inevitable demise , and actually (albeit very indirectly) suggests sobriety as his advice to me for helping myself. Here are a couple of things I was surprised to hear him mention, things that mo...