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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: GSoC 2009 proposal, looking for mentor
From:       Andrew Dorrell <andrew.dorrell () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-02-26 23:28:13
Message-ID: 49A7258D.2060204 () gmail ! com
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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.

Thanks.
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