Cory Papenfuss wrote:
I have followed VIPS for a year or so. Now with nip2 frontend, it
seems to be more stable. Unfortunately, I haven't used it enough to
figure out how it's rather unusual interface works.
It is based on a rather different paradigm from the one used by
Photoshop, GIMP etc. Essentially you process images by setting up chains
of operators, where the image data output from one is used as input to
the next. Input to the first typically comes from an image file, and
output from the last usually goes to another. It takes some time getting
used to. Like I said, this is nothing new, though - there has been image
processing software working this way for years and years...
I *have* used it to deal with some pretty large stitched panorama
images... 16-bit tif files that are 50+ megapixels. It deals with them.
Exactly. And images a lot larger than that, too ;-)
As I was trying to say on that other thread, I think the way VIPS
handles resources is The Only Way, and I've never been able to
understand why PhotoShop et al don't do the same thing.
-Cory
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Toralf Lund wrote:
Since the GIMP was discussed here lately, and I talked about handling
large images etc, I thought I might ask if anyone here is using VIPS
- see
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
I think it is definitely worth a try, although I haven't used it a
lot... (I'm quite familiar with the basic design from other, similar
libs including ImageVision on the SGI.)
- Toralf
