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You appreciate the finer things in life. You have a split personality – wild or conservative, depending on your mood. Wherever you go, you like to travel first class. Luxury, style, and fun – who could ask for more?
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If you take a low-res picture, and you want to blow it up to a higher size, there are different algorithms to do the calculation of all those new pixels. I talked about this earlier in “How to upsize an image“. I went a bit further now and took a 100×100 pixels detail of a Roos Van Acker picture by Filip Naudts and enlarged it five times: to 500×500. The tool I use, Irfanview, has 6 algorithms to do resize:
Contrary to what I expected, it was not the Lanczos filter (slowest and ‘best’) that gave the best results, but the B-spline algorithm that’s supposedly a bit worse. With Lanczos you get an rastering effect (check her hair), with B-spline it’s more even.
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Imagine one would have a certain amount of money on one’s Paypal account, and one would like to spend that on hardware or other physical goods. Let’s now limit that to shops active in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg. What are your options? Well, not a lot, it appears.
Computer/photography/electronics
My favourite is Pixmania: they have a big collection of all kinds of devices and good prices.
shop.cdfreaks.com sells blank DVD/CD and printer ink and also accepts Paypal.
Apart from that? Foto Konijnenberg: no. Thomann: no.
Books/CD/DVD
Amazon: no. Proxis: no. Azur: no. Bol.com: no.
Personally, I find this list quite short. Even if we would extend our choice to any shop that does not charge high shipping costs to Belgium, what are the options? The sold product should not be too obscure (no “shop with books on the noble art of patchwork”). Do you know any?
French hospitality #1
I’ve just spent a great weekend with the family in France. A couple from Antwerp has restored a “gentilhommière” (small castle) in Le Thurel (Picardie) as a gite d’etappe and turned it into a pleasant bed-and-breakfast!
Long walks on the beach, excellent food and abundance of wine. Splendid!
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