Spring has arrived
The ice on Mjøsa has melted and spring is rapidly proceeding.
I'm starting to think that I should create a new and better gallery for my images, my recent adventures in the land of web 2.0 has left me with some ideas for how to create a minimalistic system that has only static content on the server which is processed on the client for slideshows, tag based searching and more.
DHTML Pong
Press image below to launch a — XHTML+CSS+js standards compliant, cross browser supported without hacks — implementation of clasiscal digital gamer tennis. Avoid moving your mouse at all after loading to have two "ai's" competing each other.
I've been brushing up my js-fu the last couple of weeks due to extra responsiblities at work that have distracted me from hacking on the usual projects. This has led to a pong game and a popup-index and tagcloud for the static content web 2.0 blog renderer at codecave.org.
Robotic Aquarell Vision
When experimenting with an approach to tonemapping I've stumbled across a nice artistic aquarell like rendering filter. This rabbit looks nice with a more basic variation
The State of GEGL
The presentation I did at FOSDEM this year is now available online. In multiple forms, a video (300mb OGG/Theora), a large image and a tarball containing the GEGL compatible XML file with included media assets and a ruby program for viewing it.
FOSDEM was a nice experience, the amount of participants increases every year and it is great fun to meet up with people I haven't talked to for a couple of years as well as met a bunch of new people doing amazing things using our free tools and infrastructure.
GEGL 0.0.12
A new GEGL release is out, grab GEGL 0.0.12 and babl 0.0.14 now.
Some highlights this release:
FOSDEM Interview
I have the pleasure to present at FOSDEM this year. Part of doing a main-track presentation at FOSDEM is the speaker interview, the good people of FOSDEM performed it by email. Doing it by email gave me ample time to consider what I wanted to say, as well as getting help from other people involved with GEGL to correct my worst abuses of the english language. Read the interview.
GEGL 0.0.10 Released
A new GEGL release is out, grab GEGL 0.0.10 and babl 0.0.12 now.
Some highlights this release:
Ruby meets GEGL
GEGL is written in C, but I think and hope that interesting applications will surface written in higher level languages. I am having fun combining GEGL Ruby, GTK+ and cairo in a test application that focuses entirely on manipulating objects in a zoomable canvas on the canvas that uses pie menus. The test application and the rest of the code for the user interface resides in the nicely forming rgegl extension for Ruby.
It is nice to code in Ruby again, it seems like I can get much more done in one hour with ruby than a whole evening with C.
Public GEGL API Reference
Work is under way on documenting the GEGL API. The core of the API is rather small (less than 15 entry points for the core of creating and processing image compositions, and the rest is syntactic sugar or state queries).
Please also look through this API with a critical eye and report thoughts on the API back to the GEGL mailing-list. Improvements to the text itself are best sent as a patch against gegl.h in subversion.
The document is transformed from .h into .html by a ~500 line HTML/CSS/ruby/regexp contraption.
The rest of the web on gegl.org is still the one from the previous release, when the next release is done the API Reference will also be linked from the front page.
GEGL 0.0.4 released
The first GEGL tarball, of version 0.0.4, has just been released from the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.
Full release announcement follows:
What is GEGL?
GEGL is a graph based image processing framework offering non-destructive image processing and compositing on large images. GEGL is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to interactive applications.
GEGL is built on top of the libraries glib and babl:
What's new in 0.0.4?
This is the first public release of GEGL.
The public API is now in a state where extended testing is desirable. The public API is the functions exposed in gegl.h which most applications using GEGL will interface with, either directly or through bindings for a dynamic language. The changes needed as usage patterns emerge are expected to be small.
Although adding new operations now is easy the API used is still considered highly experimental. The file format used for testing is not stable either and is expected to continue maturing.
In the release there is also some sample code exercising the framework, in proportion to the amount of work put into the library almost no time has yet been invested in improving the usability of this GUI.
Where to get GEGL
GEGL, babl and glib can be fetched from:
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/babl/0.0/babl-0.0.8.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gegl/0.0/gegl-0.0.4.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/glib/2.12/glib-2.12.6.tar.bz2
The integrity of the tarballs can be verified with:
$ sha1sum *.bz2 8ba35c6eae58fd1f89e2ba1b09f3927d93dec57e babl-0.0.8.tar.bz2 3476715723d58fd703a72c93c4f82945e7fb23a2 gegl-0.0.4.tar.bz2 30cf64bc5c93d5fbba23ea00fb9270d29fb81f8d glib-2.12.6.tar.bz2
Where to get more information about GEGL
Information about GEGL can be found in the GEGL documentation, the README is a text only version of the HTML documentation generated during a build. This is also the contents of http://www.gegl.org/.
/Øyvind Kolås @23c3
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