[Digikam-devel] Blur-Tool

[Andi Clemens]

Hi,

as far as I see this, we are using a normal gaussian blur in the blur tool.
The problem with our own algorithm: it is damn slow.
I just played around with the CImg::blur() method and it is like 20 times 
faster, with an (at least for me) equal result.
I think we should consider using CImg (or OpenCV) in more plugins instead of 
using or own algorithms, if it is not needed.
These libraries have been tested a lot and are tuned for performance.

What do you think?
I can try to patch the blur tool to see if it really makes differences.

BTW, I try to implement an "Shadow / Highlight" imageplugin at the moment.
This will also use CImg.

If we are going to use CImg in more plugins, we should add some classes to 
DImg to easily convert between the two storage formats.

What do you think?

Andi