This looks amazing. Thanks for all the hard work on this package (and thanks also to the other contributors, I know there have been several). It seems like Images now sits on much better foundations than other image processing frameworks I've seen (e.g. matlab, or anything in the python ecosystem).
On Friday, September 5, 2014 2:07:05 PM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce a major overhaul of the Images package. The big > change > is deeper integration with other packages: Color and FixedPointNumbers. > > Integrating more closely with Color became possible with Color's recent > transition to a parametric representation, so that it became possible to > represent the pixels formats used in conventional images. This mean that > now > you won't typically need a "color dimension" to the arrays used to > represent > images; a 2d image will be, well, 2d. You'll also get a rich array of > color > conversion functionality for free. > > FixedPointNumbers exploits some of Julia's magic with number types. For > example, it makes Uint8s (really, a new type called Ufixed8) act as if > they > span the range 0 to 1. Compared to other image-processing packages you may > have used before, no longer do you have to retain a mental separation > between > integer-valued images (spanning 0 to 255, for example) and floating point- > valued images (spanning 0 to 1). Moreover, if you're using a 12-bit (or > 14-bit > or ...), you'll find that there are types that map 12 bits to 0 to 1 > already > waiting for you. > > On top of this, testing, consistency, and breadth of functionality has > been > somewhat increased. My hope is that you'll find that things work just a > little > bit better and more naturally with the new package. > > While every effort was made to introduce deprecations where necessary, > it's > very likely that some breakage will ensue. I've created a page > (https://github.com/timholy/Images.jl/blob/master/doc/fixing_breakages.md) > that > describes a couple of likely sources of trouble; if you encounter > problems, > feel free to report issues or add to that page. > > You can get an overview of the new Images at the homepage: > https://github.com/timholy/Images.jl > > Enjoy! > > --Tim > >
