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Wow, this looks nice. You can search for hours on yourself and than HN tells you in minutes what is all around. Amazing! Yes I think ImagePlay is quite compara

by loomi 11y ago

Wow, this looks nice. You can search for hours on yourself and than HN tells you in minutes what is all around. Amazing! Yes I think ImagePlay is quite comparable. I have too look into the details to see where it differs. I imagine you can also really simple add new own plug-ins?

leni536 11y ago
> I imagine you can also really simple add new own plug-ins? You could write your own filters in its custom language and save them, of course you could easily download existing filters from others and save them too. I don't remember if you could save composed filters, last time I used it was in 2007 and I was still in high school. I found my abandoned flickr profile, I really liked writing geometry filters [1]. The two spheres and the two spiral patterns were made using mathmap. Right now I can't find an easily installable version for Linux though. As far as I remember it could compile its filters to c then binary if gcc was available. One other interesting property of mathmap: It didn't cache intermediate results between filters and handled images as if they were infinite and had infinite resolution. It works, because if you only care about one given pixel of the resulting image you can calculate the previous image pixels lazily. It allowed really convenient compositions, like composing a Mandelbrot-set generator and a zoom filter then zooming into the set indefinitely only adjusting the zoom filter. I didn't try ImagePlay yet. Can you write your own filters in it or you can "only" compose from the existing filters? Writing your own filters was a killer feature of mathmap for me, especially for custom geometry filters. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/10529466@N02/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/10529466@N02/
- smk2 11y ago
  We provide a C++ API: https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/wiki/Plugins:-01-Tutorial-(Windows) https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/wiki/Plugins:-01-Tutori... You basically get access to pixel values and can then do whatever you want. Might not be comparable to what mathmap does though.
  - leni536 11y ago
    Yeah, this is more than enough, I'm definitely going to build this.
    - loomi 11y ago
      Cool, absolutely looking forward to this.
    - loomi 11y ago
      A question, would you personally prefer to host this Plug-In once written: - on your own GitHub account? - a ImagePlay Plug-In Repo? - or integrated directly in the main Build?
      - leni536 11y ago
        Well, I guess I would prefer GitHub and license it GPL3, then you can use it any way you want. It would be flattering if it was integrated into the main build.
        loomi 11y ago
        Okay, looking forward for a main build contribution!
pen2l 11y ago
Can I just say that I for one am incredibly glad you made this program, regardless of whether the GIMP plugin exists? Thanks so much@
- loomi 11y ago
  We are happy you like it. Thanks for the support.
  - pen2l 11y ago
    I am so ecstatic that I would even pay for this program. (I'm not a person who is usually willing to pay for computer applications).
    - loomi 11y ago
      Okay then please keep your excitement, we are looking into a solution. Most probably PayPal Donation button. ok?
      - pen2l 11y ago
        Uhmmm, okay. I guess have multiple ways to receive money -- e.g., some folks like to give "anonymously" via Bitcoin, some folks are okay with Paypal, some are not, etc. etc.
        loomi 11y ago
        I see, we provide for now a PayPal button at http://imageplay.io/#feedback http://imageplay.io/#feedback
        pen2l 11y ago
        Thanks. By the way, I suggest making a dedicated 'donate' page, as linked by a 'Donate' button in the navigation bar (to the right of '[...] - Download - Github - Twitter')

by loomi 11y ago

leni536 11y ago

> I imagine you can also really simple add new own plug-ins? You could write your own filters in its custom language and save them, of course you could easily download existing filters from others and save them too. I don't remember if you could save composed filters, last time I used it was in 2007 and I was still in high school. I found my abandoned flickr profile, I really liked writing geometry filters [1]. The two spheres and the two spiral patterns were made using mathmap. Right now I can't find an easily installable version for Linux though. As far as I remember it could compile its filters to c then binary if gcc was available. One other interesting property of mathmap: It didn't cache intermediate results between filters and handled images as if they were infinite and had infinite resolution. It works, because if you only care about one given pixel of the resulting image you can calculate the previous image pixels lazily. It allowed really convenient compositions, like composing a Mandelbrot-set generator and a zoom filter then zooming into the set indefinitely only adjusting the zoom filter. I didn't try ImagePlay yet. Can you write your own filters in it or you can "only" compose from the existing filters? Writing your own filters was a killer feature of mathmap for me, especially for custom geometry filters. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/10529466@N02/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/10529466@N02/

smk2 11y ago
We provide a C++ API: https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/wiki/Plugins:-01-Tutorial-(Windows) https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/wiki/Plugins:-01-Tutori... You basically get access to pixel values and can then do whatever you want. Might not be comparable to what mathmap does though.
- leni536 11y ago
  Yeah, this is more than enough, I'm definitely going to build this.
  - loomi 11y ago
    Cool, absolutely looking forward to this.
  - loomi 11y ago
    A question, would you personally prefer to host this Plug-In once written: - on your own GitHub account? - a ImagePlay Plug-In Repo? - or integrated directly in the main Build?
    - leni536 11y ago
      Well, I guess I would prefer GitHub and license it GPL3, then you can use it any way you want. It would be flattering if it was integrated into the main build.
      - loomi 11y ago
        Okay, looking forward for a main build contribution!

pen2l 11y ago

Can I just say that I for one am incredibly glad you made this program, regardless of whether the GIMP plugin exists? Thanks so much@

loomi 11y ago
We are happy you like it. Thanks for the support.
- pen2l 11y ago
  I am so ecstatic that I would even pay for this program. (I'm not a person who is usually willing to pay for computer applications).
  - loomi 11y ago
    Okay then please keep your excitement, we are looking into a solution. Most probably PayPal Donation button. ok?
    - pen2l 11y ago
      Uhmmm, okay. I guess have multiple ways to receive money -- e.g., some folks like to give "anonymously" via Bitcoin, some folks are okay with Paypal, some are not, etc. etc.
      - loomi 11y ago
        I see, we provide for now a PayPal button at http://imageplay.io/#feedback http://imageplay.io/#feedback
        pen2l 11y ago
        Thanks. By the way, I suggest making a dedicated 'donate' page, as linked by a 'Donate' button in the navigation bar (to the right of '[...] - Download - Github - Twitter')