Re: [CinePaint] cinepaint vs Gimp
Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Frank Peters wrote: > magnitude into a highly polished form. That Cinepaint even exists > at all is, to me, a worthy accomplishment. After all, Cinepaint > was the first comprehensive Open Source package to venture into the > realm of higher bit levels. It's lack of absolute perfection can > only be blamed on a lack of participants in its development. Interestingly, the Gtk widget set was originally invented in order to support development of the GIMP. The Gtk widget set was designed to work efficiently with the display systems of the time and its inventors never considered a need for more color depth or range than one could see on a computer display. The GIMP extension mechanism depends heavily on Gtk. The GIMP is a victim of its own success. Supporting higher bit levels is not difficult if the imaging software decouples its internal image representation from the display image representation as a basic requirement of its design. This has an obvious performance/efficiency impact but the level of pain diminshes as computers become faster. Photoshop used to be bound to 8 bits but managed to (painfully) introduce support for more depth across many release cycles. It seems that Photoshop's success is due to brute-force development (i.e. more algorithmic special cases) fueled by being the market leader. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV