My name is Fred Hsu. I was surprised to find a general lack of information on autostereograms when I attempted to write a program to produce such images. I promised myself to come back and edit my first wikipedia entry after I reverse-engineered the creation process of various forms of autostereograms from Magic Eye picture books. I verified my theory against the excellent discussion on stereogram in Pinker's How the Mind Works and by writing a program to generate autostereograms. March 2005.
The Autostereogram entry is now expanded to include detailed explanation of the visual trick and the process with which these amazing images are created. I am sure this won't be my last wikipedia edit. March 2005.
I am going through old pictures of my saltwater fish tanks to see if I can't reuse some of these pictures to enhance wikipedia pages on various kinds of fish. I am starting with Yellow Tang. Oct 2005.
More recent work involve reorganizing, rewriting and expanding articles on evolution, such as Mitochondrial Eve and Most recent common ancestor. February 2007. Also helped folks copyedit FA candidates such as Ocean sunfish (now a FA article), etc. June 2007.
Expanded rendezvous points one by one in The Ancestor's Tale. Created long overdue parental expenditure. July-Nov 2007. Renamed to Fisher's principle in 2008. Very unfortunately, in April 2026 some editors drastically trimmed The Ancestor's Tale article as of 2026-03 beyond recognition, losing almost all of the painstakingly curated chapter summaries and interwiki links, in an attempt to retain its Good Article status, because reviewers hate long articles and plot summaries (for fictional books). While the resulting short article as of 2026-04-10 is great, I feel the article has lost its original intent to relay the encyclopedic coverage the of the book. One day I may still recover these as a separate article.
2011: created a new 'basic concepts' section in nuclear fuel cycle after searching in vain for similar material. Same in zh:核燃料循环 in Chinese. After rewriting and expanding zh:簡化字, and most specifically the '簡化方法' section, I did the same with Simplified Chinese characters and rewrote the corresponding 'Method of simplification' section.
Rewrote most recent common ancestor completely yet again, after the last clean up in 2009. Along with useful information, garbage piled up over time. Garbage is gone.
Uploaded better pictures of Mohonk Mountain House to Commons. Found homes for these images in enwiki.
2012: working on topics related to the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, especially those centered around the forgotten hero, Yung Wing. Uploaded images such as commons:Category:Yung Wing, and edited related articles.
2016: I took (very likely) the last candid photo of Bill Cunningham on the streets of New York, before he passed away, illustrated on his Wiki page. Ironically for this legend of street fashion photography, he covered his face when I yelled, "Bill, Smile!"
2024 - 2025: Rewriting Inline skates. This started with an initial attempt to introduce a "types of skates" section. But I looked at the article, and decided to clean up its references first. While confirming existing and finding better references, I realized that many online sources were simply perpetuating myths which now had come full circle to reference this Wikipedia article. In particular, the History section is incomplete, wrong and misleading. So I ended up going down the rabbit hole to dig up first-hand historical records and patent grants. Hopefully this will set the record straight not just for this article, but also for real world books on the history of inline skates. Update on 2025-05-28: so half a year in, and I am still rewriting this article. It has grown to be the length of a book now. I've also uploaded pictures and drawings to illustrate the text. Here is the 2024-11-17 version before the rewrite started. This is the 2025-05-27 version. I imagine it will take me another month to finish the rewrite. I'll then split this long article into a few child articles. Update on 2025-07-31: the rewrite is finally done - here is the rewritten version as of 2025-07-31. As of 2025-08-015, the article is classified now as a good article. In 2026, while talking with friends about my inline skates edits, it was pointed out that no article existed on Scott Olson, the creator of Rollerblade as we know it today. So I created Scott B. Olson mainly with text and references from History of inline skates, plus additional references from my 2025 research on his subsequent ventures.
For your fantastic work and outstanding contributions to the Autostereogram article. It's a great article, largely thanks to you.SweetNeo85 02:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar
for listening to criticism, incorporating it, and being polite. Particularly on the Most recent common ancestor page. Jabberwoch (talk) 02:21, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
