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This website is for sharing my web apps, digital art, poems and my interpretations of the Dao De Jing by Laozi. I designed the text and image apps, and Claude AI wrote the code.
Text Editor: The first app is a text editor that simulates the look of a typewriter. It uses a monospace font, which means columns of numbers align perfectly, and it has many of the standard Rich Text Format ((rtf) editing features, like bold, italic and underlined text. I have added red text, among other enhanced features. It uses your browser's spell check capability as well. It has a typewriter format, being designed for letter size paper. Your printed pages will look like the ones on the screen. Press F1 for a helpful list of the key controls. All actions are initiated by keystrokes. Typewriters don't have menus, and lack of menus means speedier editing. Your work is saved as a private web page with an html extension.
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Image Editor: This is my app for image viewing and editing. With this app, use Ctrl-Shift-P for printing your images. This way you will get your printer driver software where you can specify glossy or matte photo paper for best quality prints. To copy or save, right click on the image.
This app is a versatile image viewer/editor that features image transformations and adjustments. It provides a way to load many images at once and page through them using the tab and backspace keys. If you see an image that needs changing you can make the edits and save the image back to your computer. Of course you can open one image at a time to use the editing tools that the app provides. It includes the following advanced editing features.
The editor uses a hub and spoke system. The main editor offers the adjustment and transformation features you expect in an image editor all on a single immediately available page. Nested menus are not needed. The hubs are listed below. Included are hubs for that give you layer blending, a collection of brush tools, and a hub to add text to your image. Also included are filter hubs that allow you to create artistic effects. Most of these hubs include a reveal brushes that erase the effect from areas you select.
Layer Blend Studio: Load an underlayer and use various blend modes and two opacity slider to blend it with the image you are editing. Great for adding textures and frames. You can also use an eraser brush to slowly erase what is on either the underlayer or the top layer. For more detailed information on this feature, click here: Help with Layers.
Brush Tools: The brushes here work to brighten or darken, sharpen or smooth areas on your image. In addition it has a healing brush and a clone tool. Each of these works gradually for seamless changes. Use Ctrl-click to select the source for the clone tool. There is also a fill tool Use Ctrl-click to select to select your color here too.
Text Editor: Add text to your images. Choose among four fonts. Style them in bold or italic if you wish. Select font sizes and colors. Add a signature and/or a date to your creations.
The image editing features below are designed to transform images into digital art. They will transform your images through filtering and then allow you to selectively erase some of the effect in areas you select using a reveal brush. They allow you to return original detail in areas you choose——good for eyes and faces especially.
Kuwahara Filter: A simplifier combined with a bilateral filter for smoothing. It has a reveal brush and two opacity sliders for fine adjustments. Kuwahara filtering simplifies the details in an image while preserving clean edges. Bilateral filtering smooths and softens the surface. The two filters work together to provide a great artistic effect.
Paint Stroke Filter: This filter also has a reveal brush and opacity slider. Select among six brushes, then choose your brush size and stroke length to apply a variety of artistic effects. Use the opacity slider on all these apps to adjust the strength of the effect.
Color Wash Filter: Apply blur to one layer and sharpness to the other to smooth the colors for a wash effect. Adjust contrast and gamma and opacity as needed.
Edge Detection and Emboss: Choose from 18 edge detection, relief, and embossing options. Adjust threshold and effect intensity for a variety of interesting effects.
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Next are links to my 1001 poems and my three versions of the Dao De Jing, all of which relate the outlook of that classic to Douglas Harding's viewpoint on headless seeing. The Dao haiku meditations were created by Claude AI.
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Lastly are links to Bluesky, where I post poems and comments and digiart images daily, and to Flickr and Tumblr, where I have posted many images in the past.
Updated on 06/28/2025
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