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Here comes the next part of my post chrismas upcyling. I created two different kinds of Fire Bowls Lighter. For the first one you need: Wax residues, e.g. old candles from the Advent wreath or wax waste from New Year's Eve. Toilet paper rolls Newspaper/packing paper Chopped branches from the dried Christmas tree (you can also use wood shavings or guinea pig litter). An old pot (It could be difficult to clean it again.) Wooden clothes pegs scissors Put the wax in an old pot:   Cut the toilet paper rolls in half with scissors. Then make small pocket shapes out of the paper and stick them into the half toilet paper rolls Then fill the small pockets with the chopped pine branches and seal them Melt the wax on the cooker and dip the small packets into the wax using a wooden clothes peg. Place on a surface to harden, e.g. an old cardboard box. For the second: leftover wax, e.g. old candles from the Advent wreath muffin paper moulds chopped branches from the dried up Christmas tree For t...

      EN: How to make a Harry Potter wand from the top of an old Christmas tree. DE: Wie erstellt man einen Harry Potter Zauberstab aus der Spitze des alten Weihnachtsbaumes. EN: 1. Cut the top off the old Christmas tree a hand's breadth below the topmost branch and remove all branches with secateurs. DE: 1. Schneide die Spitze von dem alten Weihnachtsbaum eine Handbreit unter dem obersten Astkranz ab. Dann alle Äste mit einer Gartenschere entfernen .   EN: 2. Remove the rind with a knife. Tip: I use cut-resistant gloves for this DE: 2. Mit einem Messer die Rinde entfernen. Tipp: Ich verwende dafür Schnittfeste Handschuhe. EN: 3. Then smooth the ends of the twigs with a knife. DE: 3. Dann die Enden der Zweige mit einem Messer glatt schnitzen. EN: 4. Now smooth all rough edges with sandpaper. DE: 4. Mit Schmiergelpapier jetzt noch alle rauen Kanten glätten. EN: If you wish, you can now rub the wand with walnut oil or colour it with a glaze of your choice. DE: 5. Wenn...

Online Tools Use an online extractor e.g.: Depth Map Extractor or Depth Extractor (both don't work with my example file from the Google Pixel 6a) Use Photopea. Photopea is even able to import all other images inside the metadata. You can use this tutorial or directly go to https://www.photopea.com/ .   Command line Tools Depth-map-extractor an Python script optimised for photos from Huawei  phones. Phonedepth , a small command line tool to extract depth data. Creating not extracting In 3D tools like blender you can simply render the mist pass/depth map and then use it in other programs: AI: There are several AI depth map creation tools. (online and local). The quality varies quite a lot depending on the input image and the used model. Sometimes it looks good at first glance, but is simply wrong. However, the AI models are improving very quickly. But if it is not perfect you can fix it, have a look at the last point. Here for example the not very good output result from 3...

Alexandre Prokoudine does a great job with his Libre Arts blog and he made a big overview of the year 2022 with a preview of 2023 : As he looks at the big picture I collected some news from small more hidden open source graphics projects: Mobile As I'm only interested in the non mainstream mobile stacks I'm ignoring Android an OS here completely. Megapixels Megapixels got two new releases (1.5 and 1.6) with nice improvements.Meanwhile is Purism working on an fork called millipixels that is using libcamera. libcamera The first version of libcamera released and a lot of big companies like RedHat, Purism and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are working together to improve the camera stack. Image Viewer Image viewers are the kind of programmes that every one thinks are easy to write. But then you realise not only there are thousands of different file formats with metadata (with informations like "rotate this image", "this is an panorama", "geo locations...

  DE:  Ich habe "alte" Bilder aufgeräumt und bin dabei auf eine Zeitraffer-Serie aus dem Jahr 2017 gestoßen. Wenn mich die Metadaten nicht täuschen, habe ich etwa alle 1-2 Sekunden ein Foto gemacht.  Leider sind die Fotos von meinem Handy und nur als JPEG, so dass es in darktable nicht viel zu verbessern gab.  Im Gegensatz zu meinem ersten Versuch mit Zeitrafferaufnahme 2014 habe ich dieses Mal deutlich mehr Kdenlive verwendet, da sich der Funktionsumfang deutlich verbessert hat. (Title, zoom effect, slow playback of the balloon).  Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten:   Mehr Fotos pro Minute Autofokus ausschalten "Richtige" Kamera benutzen und RAW Fotos machen Musik von JuliusH von Pixabay . EN:  I was cleaning up "old" images and came across a time-lapse series from 2017. If the metadata doesn't fool me I took a photo about every 1-2 seconds. Unfortunately the photos are from my cell phone and only as JPEG, so there wasn't much to improve in darkta...

DE: Ich habe aus unserem und dem Weihnachtsbaum vom Nachbarn zwei Quirle gebastelt. Quirle sind ein uraltes Küchengerät, das schon die Kelten und Wikinger vor über 1000 Jahren benutzen. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirl_(Küchengerät) EN: I made two whisks out of ours and the neighbor's Christmas tree. Whisks are an ancient kitchen utensil, already used by the Celts and Vikings over 1000 years ago.   DE: Unser Weihnachtsbaum nach Weihnachten EN: Our Christmas tree after Christmas   DE: Spitze ab EN: tip off DE: und auch die vom Nachbarn EN: and also those of the neighbors DE: Zweige auf die gewünschte Länge kürzen EN: Shorten branches to desired length DE: Dann mit einem Schnitz- oder Schälmesser die Nadeln entfernen EN: Then remove the needles with a knife DE: Die Enden mit Schleifpapier abrunden EN: Round off the ends with sandpaper DE: Trocknen lassen EN: let dry DE: Mit Walnussöl einreiben EN: Rub with walnut oil DE: Fertig EN: Done