On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Torsten Neuer <tneuer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The general idea behind the whole thing is to provide a means to be able to > write filters without the need of going through the whole process of studying > the SDK (Glib, Gtk+, libgimp in our case), compiling, and installing. > Instead, the plug-in offers an editor with which filters can be implemented by > writing a formula for each color channel that manipulates the pixel data of > the image. If the goal is not reuse of existing filter but creating new ones from scratch there are already at least two solutions tackling it in slightly different ways. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/ and http://pippin.gimp.org/plug-ins/gluas/ Addding new functionality to GIMP when a compile cycle should also be a bit easier now with the ongoing integration of GEGL which provides a more modern API for writing plug-ins than the evolved mechanisms of GIMP plug-ins. GEGL operations get automatic user interfaces for user controllable parameters and live in viewport previews when used with the GEGL-tool (same infrastructure as the migrated color adjustments tools in GIMP). /Øyvind K. -- «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» -- William Gibson http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
