pointillism

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     "source": [
      "<font color=\"green\">What's the point-illism?</font>"
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     "source": [
      "So, what the heck is [pointillism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism) anyways ... "
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      "Okay, well let's use this as a <font color=\"green\">tenuous</font> narrative to explore the capabilities offered by [Celery](http://www.celeryproject.org/), [RabbitMQ](http://www.rabbitmq.com/) and [AMQP](http://www.amqp.org/)!"
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     "source": [
      "----"
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     "input": [
      "from itertools import product\n",
      "from matplotlib.colors import ColorConverter\n",
      "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
      "from matplotlib.ticker import NullLocator\n",
      "import numpy as np\n",
      "import os"
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      "to_rgba = ColorConverter().to_rgba\n",
      "figsize = (12, 10)"
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     "source": [
      "Let's define a simple convenience function for plotting an image ..."
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      "def show_image(img):\n",
      "    plt.figure(figsize=figsize)\n",
      "    \n",
      "    ax = plt.gca()\n",
      "    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)\n",
      "    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)\n",
      "    ax.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)\n",
      "    ax.spines['left'].set_visible(False)\n",
      "    ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(NullLocator())\n",
      "    ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(NullLocator())\n",
      "    \n",
      "    plt.imshow(img)"
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     "source": [
      "So we need a <font color=\"green\">suitable subject</font> for our attempts to emulate the great <font color=\"green\">Georges Seurat</font>! ..."
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     "input": [
      "fname = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), '100_6500.JPG')\n",
      "\n",
      "img = plt.imread(fname)\n",
      "show_image(img)"
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