Re: [Boost.GIL] GSoC 2020 - FFT implementation

From: Bjorn Reese (breese_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-02-05 19:53:10

On 2020-02-04 21:18, stefan via Boost wrote:

> While I think it would be great for Boost.GIL users to be able to 
> perform Fourier transforms  on their images, I'm not convinced the best 
> way to support that would be by adding our own FFT implementations to 
> Boost.GIL. Given the amount of work (and expertise !) that goes into 
> existing third-party FFT libraries (such as FFTW: http://fftw.org/), I 
> think it's far more useful to make sure Boost.GIL can readily use (or be 
> used with) such libraries.

FYI, Boost.Math already uses FFTW for Chesbyshev polynomials.