Jochem van Dieten wrote: > It may be unlikely that you ever want to find 'all images with the color > #de7f3d', but if you do your data had better be in a database with a > functional index on color(image).
actually we're doing exactly that right now, searching microscopic mineral/gem imagery for certain colors. the new cf8 image bits are making the whole image to blob/thumbnail/etc. process fairly easy. these days pretty much all GIS s/w firms use a db to hold their spatial data (as well as many OS projects like mapserver which can use postGIS, arcSDE, etc.). it's so 1980's if you really think it's a 100% bad idea to store binary data in a db. big iron databases have come a long way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292914 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
