{"id":4450,"date":"2017-01-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=a9f08d5f295813e05463754b6f48cb85"},"modified":"2017-01-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T23:00:00","slug":"community-supported-development-of-gegl-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"Community-supported development of GEGL now\u00a0live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every new major feature people have been asking us for, be it high bit depth support, or full <span class=\"caps\">CMYK<\/span> support, or layer effects, would be impossible without having a robust, capable image processing&nbsp;core.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8yvind Kol\u00e5s picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/gegl.org\/\"><span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span><\/a> in mid-2000s and has been working on it in his spare time ever since. He is the author of 42% of commits in <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span> and 50% of commits in <a href=\"http:\/\/gegl.org\/babl\/\">babl<\/a> (pixel data conversion&nbsp;library).<\/p>\n<div class='fluid-video'>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"979\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJJPgLGrSgc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanks to his work, we shall be shipping <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.10 with 16\/32-bit per color channel precision, linear pixel data workflow, and filters that have an on-canvas&nbsp;preview.<\/p>\n<p>But we always need more from both <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span> and&nbsp;babl:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>better performance&nbsp;(always);<\/li>\n<li>more sophisticated use of <span class=\"caps\">GPU<\/span>;<\/li>\n<li>support for arbitrary <span class=\"caps\">RGB<\/span> primaries and <span class=\"caps\">TRC<\/span> (think using wide-gamut <span class=\"caps\">RGB<\/span>, like&nbsp;rec2020);<\/li>\n<li>support for <span class=\"caps\">CMYK<\/span> and spot&nbsp;colors;<\/li>\n<li>more <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> filters available as <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span>&nbsp;operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the list go&nbsp;on.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why we ask you to support \u00d8yvind via his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pippin\">Patreon page<\/a>, so that the development of new features requested by you, our community, could go&nbsp;faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every new major feature people have been asking us for, be it high bit depth support, or full <span>CMYK<\/span> support, or layer effects, would be impossible without having a robust, capable image processing&nbsp;core.<\/p>\n<p>&Oslash;yvind Kol&aring;s picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/gegl.org\/\"><span>GEGL<\/span><\/a> in mid-2000s and has been working on it in his spare time ever since. He is the author of 42% of commits in <span>GEGL<\/span> and 50% of commits in <a href=\"http:\/\/gegl.org\/babl\/\">babl<\/a> (pixel data conversion&nbsp;library).<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanks to his work, we shall be shipping <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.10 with 16\/32-bit per color channel precision, linear pixel data workflow, and filters that have an on-canvas&nbsp;preview.<\/p>\n<p>But we always need more from both <span>GEGL<\/span> and&nbsp;babl:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>better performance&nbsp;(always);<\/li>\n<li>more sophisticated use of <span>GPU<\/span>;<\/li>\n<li>support for arbitrary <span>RGB<\/span> primaries and <span>TRC<\/span> (think using wide-gamut <span>RGB<\/span>, like&nbsp;rec2020);<\/li>\n<li>support for <span>CMYK<\/span> and spot&nbsp;colors;<\/li>\n<li>more <span>GIMP<\/span> filters available as <span>GEGL<\/span>&nbsp;operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the list go&nbsp;on.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why we ask you to support &Oslash;yvind via his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pippin\">Patreon page<\/a>, so that the development of new features requested by you, our community, could go&nbsp;faster.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4450\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-19M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}