{"id":4614,"date":"2010-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=30cfc547b87d7e08cc38a298ad3b284c"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:00:00","slug":"google-summer-of-code-2010-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4614","title":{"rendered":"Google Summer of Code 2010\u00a0Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year GIMP<\/span> participated in the annual Google Summer of Code program with three projects. Two out of three projects have been successful: Cage transform tool in GIMP<\/span> and HDR<\/span> and matting functions in GEGL<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The new Cage transform tool allows doing shape-preserving deformations of objects. The tool is based on a research paper<\/a> by Yaron Lipman, David Levin and Daniel Cohen-Or, and was implemented by Michael Mur\u00e9. The tool is implemented on top of a GEGL<\/span> operation that can be reused to create more transformation tools. For more information please refer to Michael’s blog<\/a> or description<\/a> of the project’s outcome. The code lives in soc-2010-cage-2<\/a> branch.<\/p>\n

A project by Danny Robson resulted in a number of new, mostly HDR<\/span> related features in GEGL<\/span>: a standalone HDR<\/span> merge tool, RGBE<\/span> loading and saving, three tone mapping operators and one matting operator. You can read about them in details on the project’s page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cage transform tool is likely to be included in version 2.10, and features implemented by Danny Robson will be available in the next release of GEGL<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year GIMP<\/span> participated in the annual Google Summer of Code program with three projects. Two out of three projects have been successful: Cage transform tool in GIMP<\/span> and HDR<\/span> and matting functions in GEGL<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The new Cage transform tool allows doing shape-preserving deformations of objects. The tool is based on a research paper<\/a> by Yaron Lipman, David Levin and Daniel Cohen-Or, and was implemented by Michael Muré. The tool is implemented on top of a GEGL<\/span> operation that can be reused to create more transformation tools. For more information please refer to Michael’s blog<\/a> or description<\/a> of the project’s outcome. The code lives in soc-2010-cage-2<\/a> branch.<\/p>\n

A project by Danny Robson resulted in a number of new, mostly HDR<\/span> related features in GEGL<\/span>: a standalone HDR<\/span> merge tool, RGBE<\/span> loading and saving, three tone mapping operators and one matting operator. You can read about them in details on the project’s page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cage transform tool is likely to be included in version 2.10, and features implemented by Danny Robson will be available in the next release of GEGL<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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