How "PIL-like" is your Python API? DG --- On Tue, 10/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Image-SIG] Yet another image processing library > To: image-sig@python.org > Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 3:00 AM > 2007/7/30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I help maintain an image processing library called > VIPS. We've just > > released a new stable version and one of the new > features is a Python > > binding. > > > > http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk > > I hope no one minds this announcement. We've just > released a new > stable version of vips, 7.16.2, that improves the Python > binding quite > a bit. > > Good things about vips: > > * fast, since it's written in C and has good SMP > support > * low memory use, especially for large images and complex > processing, > since it is demand-driven and keeps source images on disc > where > possible > * many pixel formats, from 8 to 128-bit pixels, and any > number of image bands > * >300 image processing operations available in Python > * LGPL license > > Bad things about vips: > > * no Python binding for Windows (though it ought to be easy > to build) > * this new version is not yet available in all linuxes so > you might > need to compile from source > * the Python binding is generated automatically from a C++ > binding and > isn't very Pythonesque > > More detail and benchmarks here: > > http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Python > > New stuff in this version: > > * The varargs parts of the C++ API are now wrapped in > Python, so you > can do things like building masks from lists: > > mask = VMask.VIMask (3, 3, 2, 0, > [-1, -1, -1, > -1, 16, -1, > -1, -1, -1]) > > To make a 3x3 integer convolution mask, with scale == 2. > > * The VImage class now has .tobuffer(), .frombuffer() and > .tostring() > and .fromstring(), so you can efficiently move images > between PIL and > VIPS. There are also a couple of utility functions to > convert VIPS > headers to PIL headers and back. There's some sample > code in SVN: > > http://vips.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vips/vips7/branches/vips-7.16/python/test/pilvips.py?view=markup > > Although it won't copy over image metadata, like EXIF > and ICC profiles, sadly. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
