I tried using an octree for color quantization with the help of a 1996 Dr Dobbs article:
jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/arti...
It was quite a hassle, doesn't work that well (at least my version), and isn't as fast as I expected. On the right: sklearn's bottom-up clustering for comparison.

Another fifty Dr. Dobb's Journal magazines. 😁✌️ From a time where animated rendered 3D was FLIC format and Paintbrush get you bitmapped PCX files. #retro #magazines #drdobbs #dos #windows

I miss things like DrDobbs and Byte, which had long form articles and interviews about computing subjects

with kim-1 ROM _and_ Tiny Basic
#tinybasic #drdobbs

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201009235938/https://scribe.rip/p/youre-actually-making-a-case-for-d-here-read-http-www-drdobbs-com-architecture-and-design-how-79b3a958ecfc originally retrieved Fri Oct 9 23:59:38 EDT 2020

📰 A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s

💬 Fond/nostalgic dev: DrDobbs/Small-C bootstrapped my C. Omni (Penthouse) = pop sci + junk. Vibe: nostalgic/corrective 🧐

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621448

Hello Dave, have you ever written anything about what was different on the IP between the Pentium Pro/Slot-1 systems and socket 5/7 that avoided the variety of CPUs on these later Intel platforms?
Was it the high licensing cost?
Just found this about that bus:
jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/arti...

Discontiguous Exponential Averaging. (1998)
L: https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1998/9809/9809n/9809n.htm#l1
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45344413
posted on 2025.09.23 at 04:42:04 (c=0, p=3)

Some of you probably know the computer magazine "Dr. Dobb's Journal". At the Internet Archive you'll find – among lots of later issues – the very first volume from 1976 with all 12 issues in an anthology. Have fun: archive.org/details/dr_d... #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #drdobbs