Articles tagged: ImageMagick

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   How We Made “Meanwhile, Near Saturn”

   By Jonathan Keegan

   Posted on March 2, 2016

   At NICAR 2015 I saw Al Shaw’s talk about how he worked with LANDSAT satellite imagery to build “Losing Ground.” Al described how he and his colleagues at ProPublica built a suite of custom tools to work with LANDSAT data to tell the story of the degradation of the Louisiana coastline. I was impressed and inspired by their work, and by Al’s reminder that the decades of data and imagery produced by NASA’s satellites and probes were a public-domain treasure trove that surely held many opportunities for storytelling.

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   Responsive CSS Testing Made Simple with the BBC’s Wraith

   By David Blooman, John Cleveley, Erin Kissane, and Simon Thulbourn

   Posted on August 9, 2013

   Last November, the BBC News team created a front-end regression tool that collects and diffs screenshots to automatically highlight discrepancies produced (intentionally or otherwise) by CSS changes. Last week, the team open-sourced Wraith. We spoke with David Blooman, who developed the tool last fall and worked with Simon Thulbourn to prepare it for public release.