Sixteen more pictures of coffee
Documented here, the continuing saga of my attempt to master microfoam. Also, the awesomeness of ImageMagick. I was able to make that little montage with just a few keystrokes, by putting just the sixteen pictures I wanted in a directory by themselves, changing to that directory, and saying…
md smallNote that “convert” and “montage” are two of the programs in the IM suite. I do have one small complaint about IM — why is it that I can’t take all the results of a batch transformation and “pipe” them into a multi-image operation like montage? The support for piping single images is incredibly handy, and it would be awesome if it could be generalized.
for %i in (*.jpg) do convert %i -resize 100 -filter Lanczos small\%i
cd small
montage *.jpg -geometry +1+1 ..\montage.jpg
paperback writer:
These are pretty cool pictures!
13 February 2008, 12:28 pmColin:
Thanks! The camera on my cell phone does pretty good work on subjects that aren’t in rapid motion, and if my coffee is in rapid motion, image quality is not my chief worry just at that moment.
14 February 2008, 1:09 pmAbby:
don’t you get bored making the same foam design each time?
21 February 2008, 11:01 amColin:
No, because I don’t always succeed. It’s a challenge just to be consistent! Also, I actually have two different families of patterns here (rosettes and hearts), and my next installment will document some work I’ve done on one more free-pour pattern and some etched designs.
22 February 2008, 10:20 amAbby:
that’s what those are? rosettes and hearts? you’re right. you have NOT been successful! keep working on it!
27 February 2008, 8:55 am