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

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-06 18:51:02

"Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:4526CFD0.8050200_at_sympatico.ca...
> Andy Little wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Andy, if I read that example correctly '2D coordinates' there are meant to
> represent some physical dimensions, while here we are talking about a way to
> index an n-dimensional raster. That's quite a different world.

Nope  2d grid ... same concept

> FWIW, I believe the same reasoning can be applied to the color-space 
> discussion.
> While I think a good library to deal with color spaces and transformations 
> between
> them would be nice, that is a different domain than how colors are represented
> essentially as bit-fields in pixels.

Nope Colour .. same concept.

> You were proposing not to lump independent concepts / domains together, so 
> let's
> keep them separate ! ;-)

Just trying to "Raise the bar a little" , as is often done to me here on Boost 
... ;-)

regards
Andy Little