The famous Gopher, which is now used as a universal symbol of the Go programming language, was designed by Renée French. The Birth of the Gopher The Gopher was first introduced in 2010 as part of a design effort to give the Go programming language a recognizable and relatable mascot. The language’s creators wanted a […]

When an image is pixelated, it has a visual effect applied to reduce its level of detail through the use of many same-sized blocks, each painted with a single colour. Each of those blocks can be thought of as a large pixel (since a pixel is the smallest unit that can contain a colour in […]

It’s reasonable to look at a picture and to wonder how it might look if it were distilled down into a single colour, which somehow still encapsulates a sense of the original. In this post, we will look at various methods that can be used to calculate the average colour of an image in Go, […]

In this post, I am going to show you how to transform a full-colour image into one made up entirely of different shades of grey. The sort of image that we will create is called greyscale, because every colour that makes up the image is stored as a position on a predetermined scale of greys […]