David Joyner wrote: > I have some comment below but would like to first make some general > observations. > Certainly I am not the expert on image processing but I have now spent > a week or 2 on > PIL. I know others have spoken in favor of PIL (I think Jason Grout > and maybe some others) > and that motivated me to spend some time writing this module. I do think the > module will be of use to those who want to use or learn PIL in the > context of Sage. I worked > on it thinking that with it, PIL could be made a standard part of > Sage. However, I am no > longer convinced that this is the best idea. I'm still thinking about > this issue, so can't > say anything definitive at the moment, but from what little I know, I > think VIPS might be a > better alternative > (http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS). The library > is LGPL, and the size of the sourve is about 3M. Also, it is faster > than the other open > source alternatives according to one set of tests > http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use > Therefore, I think VIPS should be looked into further. Also, the VIPS binary > (and NIPS, the associated GUI) is available for many common linux > distributions. > > There is nothing wrong with PIL and it provides good basic functionality. > However, I think I will look into VIPS more carefully before making a > definite recommendation about what to include with Sage, as far as > image processing > goes. >
I don't remember seeing VIPS before. It certainly looks interesting! Thanks for looking at these. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
