[Digikam-devel] Blur-Tool

[Andi Clemens]

If CImg works fine here, the blur filter doesn't need to be a ThreadedFilter 
anymore... Right?

Andi

On Monday 13 April 2009 15:47:59 Andi Clemens wrote:
> 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
>
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