Alex
gabagooligan.bsky.social
Alex
@gabagooligan.bsky.social
Bikes, pizza, color theory. Grad student in like vision science or something idk I just wanna look at your retinas

Formerly im_walkin_here on the other site, NJ->LA->DC
This person (and their 3 personalities) in particular has some crazy brain worms, including terminal Stancil-brain
May 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I don’t get it. It’s pretty tiny and it’s on his bicep?
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Just look at the white highlight in his middle hair strand. Only 1 pixel wide in the digital image, yet several pixels wide in the CRT, in a way that is clearly not just analog smearing
May 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Wait the CRT one literally is double(ish) ish the resolution. It looks more detailed because it is!

I counted the pixels by hand on my phone so it may be wrong slightly but I counted about 2x as many in the CRT image as in the pixelated one in the image width (51 in the pixelated, 92 on the CRT)
May 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
But not the high and by removing the high frequencies the prioritization of high frequencies for shape is eliminated and so you’re free to perceive the revealed signal in low freq. something along those lines
May 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
That journal is pretty lax about data and things like providing a plausible neurological mechanism so I don’t recall an actual mechanism but when I chatted with Shapiro about it (I recall) his thinking was basically some prioritization mechanism where the information is carried in the low freqs 1/
May 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m curious about your point about the Lanczos filter. I deleted my original post about “a pixel isn’t a little square” because it’s a point that would be resolved by interpolation. But im interested to see a demo of an interpolated image that way, may need to code it up myself
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Or maybe by S Anstis. One of those two authors, can’t keep their work straight sometimes
May 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’ll try to dig it up by there are illusions where blur (which only removes information) reveals information hidden in moving images. It was a paper by A Shapiro in Journal of Illusion but I can’t remember the title. But within the last few years
May 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
W

Dudes dream of rides this cool (I’m dudes)
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Would be tentatively interested :)
May 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Wow, these replies sure aren’t a great example of the problem!
May 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Are we sure they didn’t get hacked?
May 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Looks like it all got deleted :/

Wild though
May 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Most people really hate going to the gym, even when you dress it up
May 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Baby resting on the gut is peak
May 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Do NOT ask my advisor about local illuminant color estimation in front of another professor, worst/best mistake of my life
May 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
W
May 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“We have a very strong ocean community in New York. In fact, many people are calling New York the ocean of America”
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Rendering 3D textures is done by the hardware in your computer, not outsourced labor???? What are you talking about?
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The people in your replies, holy shit do people not know how to take a joke
May 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When I was a kid we went there when my dad got a promotion and we thought we were the fanciest people on earth. We asked to keep the water bottles they served us from and we treasured them for YEARS
May 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM