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by piratefsh 3749 days ago
i totally agree that the fun part lies in understanding how things work under the hood. i never understood how edge detection work until i worked on an implementation with JavaScript and canvas, and that was a fantastic learning experience. the motivation behind this article was to provide a general idea of what image processing could do, and hopefully encourage someone to delve deeper into the mechanics of image processing :)