Re: VICAR file r/w - status

Am 27.12.06, 00:57 -0700 schrieb Daren Scot Wilson:

> It was just over one year ago i volunteered to add VICAR format 
> read/write capability to Cinepaint.  Turns out that volunteering to do 
> something during the busy holiday season and while one is involved with 
> writing papers on exciting astronomical discoveries, is not a good 
> idea.    For months i hadn't done much, but now i have brushed aside 
> other things to get back to work on this.   
> 
> Believe it or not, after 2.5 years of Cassini in orbit around Saturn, 
> most Cassini scientists still don't have an easy standalone handy tool 
> to look at the raw VICAR images.  We use complicated web apps and clumsy 
> GUI programs that look like they were written by scientists.   I hacked 
> XV to read VICAR; that's the closest to a handy tool we have for now.  
> There are a lot of things XV is no good at.     Those of us doing daily 
> production work (e.g. cover image for December National Geographic) use 
> GIMP and like it.   Of course it's only 8 bit/channel.   So, there still 
> exists demand for Cinepaint with VICAR, at least where i work.   I don't 
> know how many other potential user there are for this feature, but it is 
> worth doing.   So i resume this work.
> 
> Now, exactly where to start?   add VICAR to  Glasgow 0.1 since it's the 
> fresh new thing?  Or the  latest CVS of Cinepaint or some particular 
> past snapshot?  
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daren Scot Wilson
> Boulder, CO
 
Daren,

Glasgow is in alpha state and the 0.1 a technology preview.

Gtk CinePaint is going gtk2. A release candidate resides in the Developers 
Attic on the SourceForge download area. But any other release should be 
fine too for writing plug-ins. Tutorials and hints can be found on:
http://cinepaint.bigasterisk.com/CinePaintDocumentation
int the section Developer Documentation .

A good starting point might be th ppm plug-in as it supports many 8/16-bit 
ints and 32-bit float precission types. Considering to publish the code 
under BSD/MIT could make it more easy to integrate it into Glasgow.

If you hit problems write to the list or to me personally. I will try to 
answere as soon as possible.

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
--
development for color management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org


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