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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: GSoC 2009 proposal, looking for mentor
From:       Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-02-27 0:59:32
Message-ID: 478b087a0902261659m5740ea5bie2c5e554a304c528 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Andrew Dorrell
<andrew.dorrell@gmail.com>wrote:

> Andrew Dorrell wrote:
> > LukasT.dev@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> I'd like to put in a vote for the diffusion curves.  That stuff is
> >>> very cool and looks very powerful for content creation.  Also it is
> >>> nice and modular (self contained project).  But I would contact the
> >>> authors first to clarrify their position WRT intellectual property.
> >>> I.e. Have they, or are they planning to patent this work and how
> >>> will they view a GPLv3 release of their work.
> >>>
> >> I already mailed long time ago with one of the authors of curves and
> >> the author showed some joy over the fact, that somebody wants to
> >> implement in open-source project. No problems with patent I think.
> >>
> >
> > That's fantastic to know.  BTW I think it could fit in both karbon14
> > and krita but in krita it would be used as a kind of brush so that,
> > when you had finished using the tool it rendered to pixels and that
> > was that.  In karbon14 it makes sense to retain the curve definition
> > and re-generate as required - retaining full scalability.
> >
> > I must get to know these apps a little better!
> >
>
> BTW... Does KDE have or use a particular core image processing library?
> By image processing I mean things like convolution and morphological
> filters, edge detectors, colour transforms... that kind of thing.


Not really. KDE mainly uses what Qt provides, which is just very basic
stuff.

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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Andrew Dorrell \
<span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:andrew.dorrell@gmail.com">andrew.dorrell@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div \
class="Ih2E3d">Andrew Dorrell wrote:<br> &gt; <a \
href="mailto:LukasT.dev@gmail.com">LukasT.dev@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br> \
&gt;&gt;&gt; I&#39;d like to put in a vote for the diffusion curves.  That \
stuff is<br> &gt;&gt;&gt; very cool and looks very powerful for content \
creation.  Also it is<br> &gt;&gt;&gt; nice and modular (self contained \
project).  But I would contact the<br> &gt;&gt;&gt; authors first to \
clarrify their position WRT intellectual property.<br> &gt;&gt;&gt; I.e. \
Have they, or are they planning to patent this work and how<br> \
&gt;&gt;&gt; will they view a GPLv3 release of their work.<br> \
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br> &gt;&gt; I already mailed long time ago with one of the \
authors of curves and<br> &gt;&gt; the author showed some joy over the \
fact, that somebody wants to<br> &gt;&gt; implement in open-source project. \
No problems with patent I think.<br> &gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; That&#39;s fantastic to know.  BTW I think it could fit in both \
karbon14<br> &gt; and krita but in krita it would be used as a kind of \
brush so that,<br> &gt; when you had finished using the tool it rendered to \
pixels and that<br> &gt; was that.  In karbon14 it makes sense to retain \
the curve definition<br> &gt; and re-generate as required - retaining full \
scalability.<br> &gt;<br>
&gt; I must get to know these apps a little better!<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</div>BTW... Does KDE have or use a particular core image processing \
library?<br> By image processing I mean things like convolution and \
morphological<br> filters, edge detectors, colour transforms... that kind \
of thing.</blockquote><div><br>Not really. KDE mainly uses what Qt \
provides, which is just very basic stuff. <br></div></div><br>



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