Look ahead! A few drops of high-tech collated with a piece of artistic point of view… This is how BeFunky looks ahead. We as the technology team and artists sit together, order 4-5 different drinks. We stare at those drinks served in different tastes, colors, different glasses with different shapes. Then we talk. We argue. We fight, enthusiastically with all the good will we have for the next step. And here, I talk about the next step: BeFunky Vector Graphics Engine.

From now on you will see some acronyms in BeFunky like: SVG, EPS, maybe PDF… I am pretty sure that most of the users here are already familiar with PDF (Adobe’s common document format). Now, I know that I should immediately answer 2 questions:

1) What are SVG and EPS?

2) What do these terms have anything to do with BeFunky?

The world of digital artists, photographers and designers are full of with vector graphics, which are small in size, scalable, standard and portable. They make great use of these features in poster design, logo design, photo editing and digital creativity.

We recently developed a technology, which will be integrated as an update or a special feature to BeFunky and which will allow you to retrieve outputs of some of the effects in vector graphics format, such as SVG, EPS or PDF. For now I can easily say we are sure that the raster to vector conversion capability will be on BeFunky and we will push the limits of this technology as much as we can. Simply, I wanted to announce you that the technology is there and it’s just a matter of time to integrate it and present to you.

Just wait a bit more after BeFunky Plus is released and we will fulfill this need for vector representation of raster images. The academic paper of this algorithm will also be freely available.

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Hey Everybody!

It’s me Tolga Birdal. 5.00 am in the morning, and I am silently deciding to write my first blog entry… Who am I? Then check BeFunky About Us Page. I was looking forward to introduce myself a while ago, but had to wait for BeFunky systems to settle down, and decide on what I should write about. Considering the changes in BeFunky technology now it’s a good time to write, because there are so many news, even I can’t remember what we have accomplished.

During recent months we, as BeFunky geeks, we were working on a new server side architecture that would provide a more stable, faster user experience to you guys. We have discussed many alternatives which were capable of serving hundreds of web requests in a second and simply decided to fly over the clouds. And what the hack is that?

Cloud computing is getting pretty popular these days for its dead-simple manageability and relatively lower cost. However it’s pretty hard to “compute” something in a computer which is not yours (they call the cloud computing units as virtual layers, and something virtual is simply something you only can imagine that you have), especially if image processing and complicated vision algorithms are the case. To put in simple words, a “real” server would do computation faster than a virtual one, both in theory and in practice. That’s why please allow me to say that flying over the clouds isn’t as simple as buying a plane ticket.

BeFunky team implemented a novel, more efficient core library than before, and adapted a new server side architecture that could communicate super fast internally. At the end we came up with a system that could access more memory and utilize the CPU better. This new power now enables us to perform our complicated algorithms even on slower computers. And now we could fly over the clouds… The guys here are pretty excited to share this hilarious experience with you on BeFunky.