[APBeta] AP and graphics processing

[Greg Paine]

Robin,

Personally, graphics processing would not be of any value to me.

Greg

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Subject: [APBeta] AP and graphics processing

Hi Gang,

I'm thinking of building a set of graphics libraries and/or scripts for
AP using the ImageMagick library (available on those weird Mac OSX
thingies as well as glorious Windows).  There are so many things that
could be done that I'm finding it a little difficult to get started!
Hence the following question:

IF you could do graphics operations from within AP what sort of thing
would you like to be able to do?

The following are a few of the ideas I have had:

1: Image conversion (including to/from FITS)
2: Image titling
3: Adding a copyright watermark (similar process to adding a title)
4: Making a thumbnail copy of an image
5: Simple transformations (rotate, flip, lighten/darken etc)

The major constraint (at the moment) is the process is not particularly
'interactive'.  The user would run a script, set a few parameters, check
the result and retry until the desired result is achived.

Any thoughts?

Regards
Robin




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