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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KImageShop project started
From:       Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date:       1999-06-01 13:46:17
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Bavo De Ridder wrote:

> Indead, if you allow for filters to reside on a different computer than the
> master application, you somehow have to transfer the data to the
> filterlocation. This sounds like the same fragmentation and location problems
> you have in distributed databases.
> 
> If seperating filters and kimageshop should prove interesting you have to
> transfer potentially large datachunks (several megabytes for large images).

For reasonably small filtering code, do it the other way around. Transfer
(optionally - maybe the machine with the filters has interestin computing
power, so no use). Pass the filtering code to the image manip. Scripts.
Like python or scheme embeded strings.

Cristian

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