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

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-11 03:19:56

"Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> Andy Little wrote:
>> "Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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>>> 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.
>
> I strongly disagree. Modeling is always goal-driven. There is not only a
> single
> possible model to represent any given 'real-world' entity.

One Concept can have many models. That is the reasoning behind a Concept.

> But we are getting quite off-topic now.

AFAICS discussion of a colour Concept is right on-topic for an image processing
library.

regards
Andy Little