Luminance HDR
Not many of you know that I’m a developer of Luminance HDR since this summer. Luminance HDR is a cross-platform software for HDR imaging, with a large number of users and an active flickr group.
Why am I working on it? There are several reasons:
- I’m an user of Luminance HDR (and the previous version, also known as Qtpfsgui), but I really didn’t like its limitations (slowness, memory leaks, unstable UI, …).
- I’ve got a little passion for the High Performance Computing (and the vectorization in particular). So I decided to use these knowledge into the project in order to improve the code.
- I’ve got a Mac and there was no release for Luminance HDR running on OS X until few weeks ago (when I made it!).
- Using a Mac, I work mainly with XCode. But I also had chance to put my hands on Shark (a performance profiler), Instruments (a memory/function call profiler) and MallocDebug (a memory allocator profiler). These tools are absolutely useful in many fields (and in my PhD as well), so I’m really interested in learning and using them effectively.
Give a try to Luminance HDR and let me know what you think of it. If you like it, you can also consider to make me a donation! 
U2, Zurich, CH – September 12th, 2010
Almost a month has passed since this concert (the 4th U2′ concert in a bit more than an year for me) and a lot of thing have gone through my life. This concert has been different from the ones I’ve been before. Probably the rain, probably a smaller stadium, probably a different setlist, probably Bono in a great shape, but the concert has been somewhat different. This concert has seen the live debut of “Mercy” and I also had chance to listen a bunch of songs I haven’t listen before. Unfortunately, because of the heavy rain, the Encore was shorter and With or Without You and Ultraviolet/Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me were not played. I wish they did, but unfortunately the weather was so terrible.
This is the set list of the concert in Zurich, September 12th 2010:
- Return Of The Stingray Guitar
- Beautiful Day
- I Will Follow
- Get On Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways
- Elevation
- Until The End Of The World
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
- North Star
- Mercy (live debut)
- In A Little While
- Miss Sarajevo
- City Of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Mothers Of The Disappeared
- Walk On
Encore
- One
- Where The Streets Have No Name
- Moment of Surrender
I’ve put some pictures of this concert in a gallery and I’ve also published a couple of shot on flickr.
I’m going to talk about Zurich soon, promise!
