skeletonize question

[Thouis (Ray) Jones]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 16:09, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus at yale.edu> wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 5:23 AM, Thouis (Ray) Jones wrote:
>> Having fought this fight far too many times, I'm beginning to think
>> there's a need for a simple, small, and fast python module wrapping
>> libtiff, libpng, and libjpeg and talking to numpy.  This would handle
>> 90% or more of everyone's needs and would hopefully be simpler to
>> install and use than PIL (and would have a faster development cycle).
>
> That's why I wrote that FreeImage backend... But maybe asking people to get libfreeimage (lightweight and dependency-free as it may be) is harder than ensuring they have libs tiff, png, and jpeg?

This is probably good enough.  I admit we never tried this option with
CellProfiler.

Your wrapper is read-only, right?  Any sense on how much work to make
it able to write some of these formats, as well?

Ray