For one of my consulting clients, I found myself writing command-line tools that operate on videos. One tool zoomed in on the portion of the video frame, to let the user examine it closely. How do you tell a command-line tool to zoom in on one portion of video frame? I came up with an idea, which I call “2 1+ 1 sections”. It is a quick way for a user to refer to a part of a picture, using a concise text notation. I haven’t used it for that client, but I’ll post it here in case it comes in useful later on. Continue Reading »