{"id":14,"date":"2012-11-25T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-11-25T19:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:07:39","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/2012\/11\/25\/14\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">I got the idea for this project a while ago when I was working with the <a title=\"Python Imaging Library Handbook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pythonware.com\/library\/pil\/handbook\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Python Imaging Library (PIL)<\/a> for the first time. First of all, PIL is a <a title=\"Python homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Python<\/a> module \u2013 meaning that it lays a set of easily accessible capabilities on top of the Python programming language. In this case, the features that are provided are all image-based.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">I was looking through the documentation for the PIL and one of the functions struck me as being potentially interesting \u2013 the ability to convert text to pictures and vice versa. Considering myself an occasional practitioner of abstract photography, as well as being familiar with some texts, I thought I would try to convert a book into an image. But I never really had the time or an excuse to do so until recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the idea for this project a while ago when I was working with the Python Imaging Library (PIL) for the first time. First of all, PIL is a Python module \u2013 meaning that it lays a set of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/2012\/11\/25\/14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kvalade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}