[Image-SIG] Ability of Python ?

[jcupitt at gmail.com]

2008/12/9 Stani <spe.stani.be at gmail.com>:
> I know from the Gimp developers that GEGL (new pipeline based, graphics
> library for Gimp) supports on demand loading of pixel areas, so there is
> no real limit on the size of the images.
> http://gegl.org/pygegl/
> http://gegl.org/gallery/index.html (some xml examples, not python)
>
> It's probably still beta, but looks promising. Gegl is already in
> included in all major linux distributions and pygegl will be soon.

There's also vips:

  http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Python

It should be quicker than GEGL (especially on multicore systems) and,
like GEGL, has very low memory needs.

John