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Irregular Webcomic! #2050

I'm amazed there hasn't been a crossover between these two themes before now.

I was also shocked to discover that the characterstic speech bubble colours for Adam and Jamie match the ones for the Nigerians. I suspect that when I first did a Mythbusters strip I just copied the colours off the Nigerians.

Irregular Webcomic! #2049

Edge detection is a major topic of interest and research in image processing applications. It refers to computational algorithms for determining where in an image there are features where the brightness changes suddenly (or "edges"). Often edges in an image are associated with the boundaries of physical objects - so edge detection is a tool useful for recognising three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional image.

Some of you know that my day job is working in various optical and image processing fields. So naturally I spend time thinking about edge detection. I came up with what I think is a cool new method for detecting edges, and wrote some experimental code to try it out. I was so excited by the results that I forwent a comic today just to show you the output on a typical sample image.

The sample image, by the way, is a photo of the rock band U2, which was taken by Zachary Gillman and licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 licence. Thanks for licensing your photo for this important and ground-breaking theoretical research, Zachary!

Irregular Webcomic! #2048

I admit it. I just wanted to get that line said by Hermione.

Imagine if you will, a new film set 20 years after the final Harry Potter book. With Hermione played by Sigourney Weaver.

Irregular Webcomic! #2047

Yeah, when they're about to banish you into a Swamp of Terror, it's not exactly advisable to go around insulting them.

Irregular Webcomic! #2046

Ishmael refers to the famous Kobayashi Maru scenario from the opening of the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

I tell you, if I was going into space with someone, I'd want them to know their Star Trek. How else will they know what to do when confronted by mysterious god-like alien intelligences that treat humans as playthings?

Irregular Webcomic! #2045

Ah, so that's where he got to!

We haven't seen Cthulhu make an appearance since way back in #1548 (if you don't count the Christmas special strip #1793).

Irregular Webcomic! #2044

It's difficult to say what the consequences of causing a temporal paradox will be, without actually going ahead and doing it.

Of course we already know that history has been altered for the future Serron and Iki Piki, but that's not the same as causing an actual paradox.

Wait... or is it?