On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Alex Ghitza<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM, William Stein<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, David Joyner<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi: >>> >>> I'd like to suggest that PIL be made standard. This requires a vote. > > +1 > > Last week I went to a talk/infomercial on Mathematica at the > University of Melbourne. One of the things that impressed the > audience was the ability to load an image (in this case, a fish) and > very easily and quickly perform some image manipulation on it (e.g. > slicing it into 5x5 squares and rearranging the squares to make > "scrambled fish"). I'm planning on giving an intro to Sage sometime > this year, and although I don't want to make it a response to the > Mathematica talk, I'd love to be able to show that we can do a lot of > these things.
I remember likewise wanting for Sage to improve in this way, specifically because manipulating images mathematically is fun and a good way to illustrate visualize certain ideas. So I vote +1 to PIL inclusion in Sage. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
