FFMPEG: Convert an image sequence to a compressed video

Just putting this here for my future self and anyone out there who might need to converts an image sequence into a video.

I have been using the following code to generate compressed videos from a big image sequence. It seems to have a really good balance between quality and compression.

ffmpeg -r 30 -f image2 -i out_%05d.png -vcodec libx264 -crf 25  test.mp4

Source:
http://hamelot.co.uk/visualization/using-ffmpeg-to-convert-a-set-of-images-into-a-video/ 

Different types of Randomness..

Randomness is an integral part of a number of programming algorithms. In fact most of my research until now has been based on a computer algorithm that only uses random numbers for learning a specific task.

A while back I was trying to write some code to define and visualize different Random number generation models. For this task I was playing with a number of different algorithms and visualizing the output on a (kind of a ) probability map. [Not to mention that I use OpenCV for this project as well].

Some of these maps looked pretty cool, so I am just embedding them in this post - also if anyone is interested I have shared the link to this project at the bottom of this post, check that and modify --> make your own random distributions :D

So the input to each of my functions is a Uniform Distribution which looks like this:

A 2D Uniform Distribution