Re: [GM-apis] multispectral file access
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From: <jc...@gm...> - 2014-09-01 12:06:02
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On 31 August 2014 20:50, Norman Goldstein <no...@te...> wrote: > It seems that libvips is on the verge of releasing a rewrite, > which I assume would be version 8. It all sounds appealing, specially > the tiling/caching for large images. When do you think version 8 will > be made available? Currently supported vips is vips8, but with a vips7 compatibility wrapper on top of it. You can call vips8 stuff directly, see: http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/7.40/doc/html/libvips/ Now the core library has been redone, we're redoing the C++, Python and Ruby bindings. When they are done we'll change the name to vips8 and formally deprecate the vips7 API. Maybe another six months? > I have also be looking at OpenImageIO > https://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/home > It also seems to satisfy what I need. Yes, openimageio is very like vips, though they don't have (as far as I know) the fancy threading system or the range of operations. I don't know how speed compares. It'd be fun to add them to the vips benchmark: http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use John |