Following on from yesterday’s post about reactive programming using Spring Reactive Web, I thought it would be interest to expand upon the example. In this post we’ll take a look at one of the cooler aspects of the new reactive model, result streaming.
Read moreWithout going into too much backstory around reactive programming, the short explanation is that it is a technique for writing asynchronous, event driven, non-blocking applications.
I’m hoping to write a few posts about some of the techniques I’ve been playing around with. I’ve been really interested in keeping my services as functional as possible.
Read moreInspired by a forum post on osdev.org about image colour down-sampling I decided to have a crack at writing a program which could take a 24-bit image and convert it down to any lesser image format. The picture above shows an image split down the middle. On the right is the original 24-bit colour version and on the left is a 8-bit per pixel version with 2 bits for the red colour channel and 3 bits for the green and blue colour channels (rather than having a specific palette for the image I am down-sampling to a 2:3:3 BPP image). As you can see the colour loss is acceptable and despite the limitations it still looks nice. Obviously the image could be improved further by choosing a colour palette suitable for the image but that is for another project.
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