[Image-SIG] Yet another image processing library

[jcupitt at gmail.com]

2008/10/8 Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>:
> Is it not available for Windows? from the website, it looks like it is
> (apart from utf-8 filename issues)

The windows binary on the website does not include the Python binding.
It ought to build for windows (it builds a DLL for libvips with no
problems, for example), I just haven't done it.

> Can it efficiently consume and/or produce numpy arrays? That would be very
> handy for "destructive" operations.
>
> numpy can use the buffer interface, but it would be even better to support
> the new nd-array buffer interface:

vips has .tobuffer() and .frombuffer(), so I guess it should work with
numpy, but I've not tried.

John