April Fools!

In case anyone hadn’t figured it out yet, that whole PN-Zoom thing was an April Fools joke. I hope it was amusing. Here it is for posterity.

As many of you know, I’ve be struggling bandwidth issues for some time. For this reason, I’m not going to be able to offer full-size images anymore. I know this will be disappointing, but I think I found a solution to make it more acceptable, which I call “PN-Zoom”. I’ve been playing with an open source machine learning platform for image classification, and I’ve had pretty good results, so what I’ve done is configure it to isolate the most important parts of the images, and make them clickable, rather than the entire high-res image. I just put up a batch of new images using this system to test it out. For now, older pictures will work as before, but if everything goes smoothly I’m going to try and figure out how to process those the same way. So far it looks good though, and the only problem I’m seeing is that it conflicts with the WordPress comment hook.

The last three posts have been set back to normal (and comments enabled). For those who missed it, the goofy zoomable versions will be available here for a while at least.