Re: [OctDev] jpgread changed

[Andy A. <an...@an...>]

On 10/12/05, Teemu Ikonen <tpi...@pc...> wrote:
> I have a rewrite of imread as an oct-file binding to libmagick++ in
> the works. AFAIK Imagemagick supports all of the formats of the
> current imread implementation or more and I found that reading some
> formats to octave is 2 orders of magnitude faster with imagemagick.
>
> I plan to support the imread interface documented at the Mathworks
> website as much as possible.

This is a great idea. I did not do this in the past because the libMagick++
API was not stable. Maybe it is now.

Imagemagick also implements lots of other algorithms. Maybe there
can be a generic way to access these api features.

Andy