{"id":12756,"date":"2008-05-15T16:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/05\/counting-chickens-in-africa-via-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2008-05-15T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T16:54:28","slug":"counting_chickens_in_africa_via_photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/counting_chickens_in_africa_via_photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting chickens in Africa, via Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">A few years ago I heard from a researcher at DuPont who was, as I recall, using Photoshop&#8217;s Histogram palette &amp; other tools to analyze samples of Kevlar and other materials.&#160; Later I visited the Johnson Space Flight Center and talked to a team about using Photoshop&#8217;s Ruler Tool to assess possible cracks in space shuttle heat shields photographed during flight.&#160; No matter what you <em>think<\/em> a given feature is designed to do, customers will always find interesting ways to push it farther.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">In that vein, Chris Ing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksofscience.com\/general\/using-adobe-photoshop-for-research-and-profit\/\">gets crafty<\/a> on JacksofScience.com, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/movielibrary.lynda.com\/html\/modPage.asp?ID=526\">new analysis tools in PS CS3 Extended<\/a> to do everything from estimating chicken density in Africa* (by analyzing the &quot;integrated density&quot; of various regions of an info graphic) to calculating the height of Kirsten Dunst (studiously cross-checked against something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickipedia.com\/Kirsten_Dunst\">Chickipedia<\/a>&#8211;and no, I&#8217;m not feigning ignorance).&#160; Should you find yourself   &quot;interested in comparing the circularity of your head to that of a friend,&quot; you&#8217;ve got a kindred spirit.\n<\/p>\n<p><i>* Sorry, the pre-\/post-hatched counting enhancement will have to wait for a future release.  (We&#8217;ll sic <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/c++performance\/\">Chris<\/a> on it.)  We&#8217;ve heard somewhere that it&#8217;s an important distinction&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I heard from a researcher at DuPont who was, as I recall, using Photoshop&#8217;s Histogram palette &amp; other tools to analyze samples of Kevlar and other materials.&#160; Later I visited the Johnson Space Flight Center and talked to a team about using Photoshop&#8217;s Ruler Tool to assess possible cracks in space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}