Re: TIFF Image Support Project GSOC
Pranjali Sharma <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:00:33 +0530
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I've been researching about TIFF and libtiff and I'm all set to work on the tiff class. I've got the basic idea but need some time to think about it. Thank you all for the wonderful assistance! On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:30 PM Nicholas Jankowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > There isn't really code to start with. The main point of this project > > is to create a Matlab compatible Tiff class [1] and there isn't one in > > Octave yet. > > I'm sure we note this somewhere in the Developer guidelines, but probably > worth a reminder when working on creating Matlab compatible code: Please > limit your inspection of Matlab function requirements to publicly > accessible documentation. Examining Matlab interpreter/graphical output > from test scripts is acceptable for comparison (and focused requests for > this can be made to the group if you do not have matlab access.) But even > if you have legal access to the software, at no point during development > should you even look at any of the underlying Matlab function code. Doing > so can render your contributions completely unusable by Octave. > > @David - are there any similar existing wrappers/class implementations > worth pointing out in particular as a reference? >