Just for Fun

Recently I've finished a book "Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary" by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. One more easy-reading autobiography of Linus Torvalds about Linux creation history, free software, open source, meaning of life and Linus' law of life.
Along with a technical information about Linux and its creation, in the book there are a lot of interesting facts about life in Finland and US, history and reminiscences. By the way, first public version on Linux, which was uploaded to internet is still there: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/historical/kernel/
I highly recommend it to Linuxoids, IT-people and biography books lover.

Spritesheet cutter

Yesterday in our SPb Python telegram chat a question "how to automatically cut spritesheet into several sprites" was asked. An example of spritesheet image is here: http://www.spriters-resource.com/3ds/animalcrossinghappyhomedesigner/sheet/68350/
Several solutions were proposed, and today I've decided to write my own solution.

So the problem is to cut each sprite out and save to separate file. As a parameter could be passed the color of border. By the way by default it could be fetched from top left pixel. I've coded a Python script that takes input spritesheet image, border color if known, and output folder to save found and cutted out sprites. Output sprite images are grouped by size.