HomeProjectsHomeMain MenuHomeProjects & ResearchPublicationsCVWoodworkingPhotographyContactLogin FormUsernamePasswordRemember MeForgot your password?Forgot your username?gbook.orgBuilding ImageMagick with FFT supportWritten by AdministratorMonday, 25 July 2011 15:32I recently needed the fft functionality available with ImageMagick but the command convert image.png -fft failed. Turns out you need to build ImageMagick against the FFTW library, but its not terribly easy to figure out how to do this. The advanced unix compilation for ImageMagick page doesn't describe specifically how to do this. The fPIC and fft flags described below are very important to get this to build correctlyHere's a quick outline of how to build ImageMagick to use the fft functions:1) Download the FFTW source codea) unzip the fftw3 source, cd into the fftw3 source directoryb) ./configure CXXFLAGS=-fPIC CFLAGS=-fPICc) maked) sudo make install2) Download the ImageMagick sourcea) unzip the ImageMagick source and cd into the source directoryb) ./configure --enable-hdri -with-fftwc) maked) sudo make install 
Then convert image.png -fft should work!
 
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2002 Toyota Camry repairs
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Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:16
I bought my 2002 Toyota Camry in September 2003, with 30,000 miles on it. It's actually been a fantastic car for past 8 years. But as time goes on, it shows its age. This summer I decided to pay attention to it when there was a problem I couldn't ignore. There was a loud noise coming from under the engine when the car was running... definitely had that rumbling exhaust leak sound. I took it to a local garage and they quoted $750 to replace the flex pipe/catalytic converter. The part itself was $550. I looked online and found the pipe on Amazon.com for $180. I thought, hey what a savings if I do it myself! After all I worked in a garage for the summer of 1997.
 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:33
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How to submit Matlab batch jobs to Sun Grid Engine
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 18:03
When we started porting our automatic fMRI processing to the cluster at work, it took a large amount of time to figure out exactly how to get Matlab, and SPM to run in batch mode on the cluster. So many variables and so many steps... so many places things could go wrong. In this article I describe the steps necessary to run Matlab batch jobs through SGE and cron.
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:15
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Perl parameter passing
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Friday, 15 July 2011 13:26
Here's an interesting thing I should have learned a long time ago: when you pass an array to a subroutine in Perl, it passes the elements of the array, not a pointer to the array.
One might assume that this function call would pass the array in as an array... but it actually causes all subsequent function parameters to become part of the array once it is passed in:
my @array = (1,2,3);ArrayFunction(@array, 1, "hello");sub ArrayFuncti