Show HN: Phonestagram – photos filters and sharing using MMS, Nodejs and Socket.io

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This is cool. Another interesting implementation is one that runs in the browser and applies filters to locally captured images using the Canvas API. Here's an example:

http://www.noupe.com/development/howto-build-an-instagram-cl...

That really fascinates me because we now have access to taking photos, reading in the raw data and manipulating it without sending a single byte to the server.

Author here. This application uses CamanJS [1] which depends on Node-Canvas [2], a Node implementation of the Canvas API. So all the cool things you can do with Canvas in the browser you can also do on the server side.

But I see your point. Love what you can do in the browser these days.

[1] http://camanjs.com/

[2] https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas

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