State of kdefx

[Zack Rusin]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 07:51:05 am Holger Freyther wrote:
> Am 24.07.2007 um 13:17 schrieb Zack Rusin:
> > As you remember, we had some issues with the design of KImageFx
> > when we were
> > working on it. To me it became very apparent that to create a proper
> > filtering pipeline a graph based approach like the one described in:
> > "A model for efficient and flexible image computing"
> > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=192191 and implemented to a
> > certain
> > degree in CoreImage would be needed. This is why I had to leave the
> > architecture of KImageFx and redo it from scratch in form of Quasar.
>
> Hi Zack,
>
> I have watched the video of your aKademy talk and there is one thing
> I'm wondering about. Have you looked at gegl. And if yes in which
> ways is the to be created Quasar superior in both design and
> implementation and better suited for 'our' use-cases?

Yes, I have. Pippin and I spent a whole Sunday here in Oslo discussing image 
manipulation. I'm interested in animation and hardware acceleration, those 
are the things Quasar is focusing on. Gegl has different goals. They're both 
graph's and they region filtering part is based on the same research paper 
which is pretty much all that they share.

z