Re: [boost] GIL - Generic Image Library Review - Begins October 5

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-06 17:34:14

"Lubomir Bourdev" <lbourdev_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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Andy Little wrote:
>"Lubomir Bourdev" <lbourdev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Any large library has some concepts that could stand on their own or be
>> reused in other contexts. Sometimes it makes sense to do so, but
>> sometimes (as I believe is the case with GIL) those other contexts are
>> quite nebulous and doing so would be somewhat extreme.
>
>? "Those other contexts are quite nebulous"?  You lost me..

Again, lets take your example of extracting the 2D-navigation aspect of GIL 
(what you call Display Matrix) into a stand-alone library that you could use for 
purposes other than imaging. Your example is manipulating text characters in a 
rectangular grid.

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Heres another example, of a field representing streamlines round a cylinder:

http://www.servocomm.freeserve.co.uk/Cpp/pqs-2-00-02/whats_next.html

Now presumably I could combine the locator with some function as in the 
mandelbrot example to find out the state of the streamlines at any point in the 
flow. Presumably the locator could also be extended to 3D.

regards
Andy Little