[dev] Ansel ideas

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:
>>
>>> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> http://valokuva.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> This guy is the maintainer of the imagick PECL extension and has some
>>>>> really nice ideas how to process images with ImageMagick.
>>>>> I could see Ansel using the pretty thumbnails, or the polaroids stack
>>>>> for a gallary tile.
>>>>
>>>> I already bookmarked these in my ansel ideas folder. Looks very pretty. :)
>>>
>>> This appears to be PHP 5 only (5.1.3+ in particular) :(
>>
>> No, it's the technique that matters, not the extension. We would have
>> to (or at least should try to) implement this for all Horde_Image
>> drivers. At least with the im driver it's as easy. We could even
>> change the im driver to use the imagick extension if available.
>
> Ah.  In that case, I came across the phpThumb project   
> (phpthumb.sourceforge.net) a while ago, while I was trying to mess   
> with some image processing stuff...While not something to 'drop-in',  
> I  think there were some at least some gd algorithms in there for  
> rounded  corners, drop shadow etc...that we could use as a starting  
> point for  the gd driver.

Cool, that would help a lot. Of course we can always fall back to  
simpler processing if only gd is availabe and not im.

Jan.

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