2009/4/22 Michael Dale <mdale(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Marco Schuster wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>> * Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor
(Simetrical), will be building a
>> thumbnailing daemon, so image manipulation won't have to happen on the
>> Apache servers any more
> Wow, I'm lookin' forward to this. Mighta
be worth a try to give the upper
> the ability to choose non-standard resizing filters or so... or full-fledged
> image manipulation, something like a wiki-style photoshop.
I was looking at
http://editor.pixastic.com/ ...
"wiki-style photoshop"
would be cool ... but not in the scope of that soc project ;)
You can do pretty much anything with ImageMagick. Trouble is that it's
not the fastest at *anything*. Depends how much that affects
performance in practice - something that *just* thumbnails could be
all sorts of more efficient, but you'd need a new program for each
function, and most Unix users of MediaWiki thumbnail with ImageMagick
already so it'll be there.
- d.