Re: [Gimp-developer] viewing Dectris X-ray detector data

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On 12/21/11 16:40, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi Stanley
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:14:46PM +0100, stanley esrf fr wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > I was wondering how easy (?!) it might be to change the GIMP data
> > input/output routines so that instead of reading/writing jpg images
> > "GIMPX" could read/write Dectris X-ray detector format data...
>
> Don't fork off a new GIMPX project.
>
> GIMP uses a plug-in system to read/write files. You can easily write
> support for a new file format by creating a plug-in for it.
>
> Use any existing plug-in's source code as an example:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/common/
>
> Plug-ins for PPM, TGA, RAW (raw data, not camera RAW photos), XPM, etc.
> are rather simple and can be a good foundation to start a new plug-in.
>
> http://developer.gimp.org/plug-ins.html
>
> > In fact, we would really only be interested in a very small subset
> > of all the image processing that GIMP can do.  For example, certain
> > zones of the 2d detector need to be masked before further data
> > analysis can proceed.  The ability to select contiguous regions
> > based on count-rate would be very helpful.
>
> If you don't need a GUI, you could also try using GEGL for image
> processing which will give you more precision. GEGL also supports
> plug-ins, which are called operations in its nomenclature.
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/tree/operations/external/
>
> http://gegl.org/
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mukund

for repetitive batch processing you could also look at imagemagick which 
operates from text commands.

If your processing is repetitive this would be a lot more efficient than 
an interactive interface like gimp.

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