Linux Journal Contents #159, July 2007
Linux Journal Issue #159/July 2007
You have to see the movie Shrek the Third in order to appreciate what DreamWorks has achieved with Linux on 3,000 CPUs doing 20 million CPU render hours. The hair movement, detail and lighting will knock your socks off and make them dance around the theater. We've got the lowdown on how it was all done; the various stages from storyboard to final cut.
As always, there's much more. Need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that actually works? We'll tell you about a quirky command-line tool that does an outstanding job. Have you discovered the world of vector graphics? We'll get you working with Inkscape, even at the command line. And don't miss our interview with the Photoshop clone Pixel's creator Pavel Kanzelberger.
Features
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DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre
by Robin Rowe
What can you do with Linux and 20 million CPU render hours?
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Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine
by Anthony Kay
If you really need OCR.
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Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape
by Marco Fioretti
Want scalable beauty?
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Interview with Pavel Kanzelsberger, Creator of Pixel
by James Gray
Photoshop comes to Linux, sort of.
Indepth
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Automated GIMP Processing of Web Images
by Ben Martin
Program GIMP to work for you.
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Writing Your Own Image Gallery Application with the UNIX Shell
by Girish Venkatachalam
GUI? We don't need no stinking GUI.
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Programming Python, Part II
by José P. E. "Pupeno" Fernàndez
More love for learning Python.
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Image Processing with QccPack and Python
by Suhas Desai
A library collection for Python image processing.
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Mambo Exploit Blocked by SELinux
by Richard Bullington-McGuire
SELinux catches exploits.
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Role-Based Single Sign-on with Perl and Ruby
by Robb Shecter
Let the role dictate the privileges.
Columns
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Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge
First Steps with Django
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Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux
Let Me Show You How It's Done with a Little Video
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Dave Taylor's Work the Shell
Displaying Image Directories in Apache, Part IV
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Doc Searls' Linux for Suits
Beyond Blogging's Black Holes
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Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion
Amazing Free Distributions Abound
Quick Takes
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Deep Images
by Dan Sawyer
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