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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:57:58 -0400
To: Pak Yan Choi <pakyan+@andrew.cmu.edu>, tiff@olympiakos.com
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Subject: Re: Image manipulation package based on libtiff?
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At 11:49 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Pak Yan Choi wrote:
>I'm beginning work on a summer project to implement an image manipulation
>package based on libtiff.  We need to be able to have pixel, scanline, and
>block access to large (> 0.5GB) images, usually several at a time.  We
>also need to be able to read, write, and modify (read AND write) an image.
>Regarding image access, libtiff provides some helpful functions (such as
>the RGBA interface), but it doesn't seem well-suited for use in
>manipulation.  For example, it appears that I'll want/need to implement
>some sort of image paging mechanism, and I'll need to modify the library
>to support the ability to modify an image.
         Have you looked at ImageMagick (<http://www.imagemagick.org>)?  It 
uses libtiff for working with TIFF images and provides a VERY robust set of 
image manipulation tools.


Leonard

