Tiny Little Life

My FontClustr project has received honorable mention in the 2011 Catalyst Award competition! As an outsider to the world of graphic design, I’m touched that they found my work so inspiring.
From the press release:
The judges were impressed by the approach taken by this self-confessed non-typographer to a practical problem: how to automate grouping […]

This shot of a mantis is the result of combining several images with different focal points using a program called Helicon Focus. By taking the in-focus parts of each image and combining them, this program helps you fake a deeper depth of field. In this case, both the wings and the front legs […]

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just developed a sorting algorithm in C++ whose worst case performance is O(n). I have named this algorithm ijk_sort (”ijk” is pronounced “ike” as in “Dijkstra“).
You can download the source of ijk_sort.cpp, reprinted below:

#include <limits .h>
using namespace std;
 
// via http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
static const unsigned char ijk_cache[256] =
{
# […]

FontClustr can now be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/ifreecarve/FontClustr