Magick++ is a sophisticated portable C++ application programming
interface (API) to the ImageMagick image processing library
(libMagick). Magick++ currently provides access to 65 major image
processing operations. This count does not include the many options
(some of which could be considered operations themselves) available
to those operations. Magick++ is able to read and write over 50
image file formats due to its use of ImageMagick.
The Magick++ C++ API to ImageMagiMagick++ is co-packaged (in a
sub-directory) of ImageMagick 4.2.9 so that compatibility is
ensured. Read more about Magick++ (including full documentation and
source release) on the Web at
“http://www.simplesystems.org/Magick++/”.
Magick++ supports an simple object model which is inspired by
the PERL interface to ImageMagick (PerlMagick). Unlike some other
C++-based image processing libraries Magick++ is not a
incomprehensible explosion of inherited classes. Magick++ executes
quickly since it is written in a compiled language which is not
parsed at run-time. This makes it suitable for Web CGI programs.
Images support implicit reference counting so that copy
constructors and assignment incur almost no cost. The cost of
actually copying an image (if necessary) is done just before
modification and this copy is managed automatically by Magick++.
De-referenced copies are automatically deleted. The image objects
support value (rather than pointer) semantics so it is trivial to
support multiple generations of an image in memory at one time.
Magick++ provides integrated support for STL. This support
allows Magick++ to be used with the Standard Template Library (STL)
so that the powerful containers available (e.g. vector and list)
can be used to write programs similar to those possible with PERL
& PerlMagick. STL-compatable template versions of ImageMagick’s
list-style operations are provided so that operations may be
performed on multiple images stored in STL containers.
Obtain Magick++ by downloading the ImageMagick 4.2.9 release
(Unix source release or NT binary+source release) from ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/
or one of its many mirrors. If you already have ImageMagick 4.2.9
installed, you may install Magick++ using the release package on
the Magick++ web site.
The LSM entry for Magick++ follows:
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Title: Magick++ image processing library (in C++)
Version: 0.8.6
Entered-date: 30AUG99
Description: Magick++ is a library written in C++ that provides
a user-friendly interface to the sophisticated
image-processing capabilities of ImageMagick. Magick++
supports an object model and API which is inspired by
PerlMagick, the PERL interface to ImageMagick. Magick++
provides reference-based garbage collection and
efficient value-based assignment to make working with
images no more difficult than working with integers.
Pointers are not a requirement in order to use Magick++.
In order to deal with collections of image frames,
Magick++ is fully integrated with the Standard Template
Library (STL) so that image frames may be stored in, and
operated on, in STL containers (e.g. vector and list).
STL-compatable template versions of ImageMagick's
list-style operations are provided so that operations
may be performed on multiple images stored in STL
containers. Magick++ is platform independent (only
requiring standard C++) and is currently supported under
Unix and Windows.
Keywords: ImageMagick,Magick++,image-processing,C++,STL,graphics,library
Author: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn)
Maintained-by: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn)
Primary-site: http://www.simplesystems.org/Magick++/
472 kb Magick++-0.8.6.tar.gz
504 kb Magick++-0.8.6.zip
Platforms: Unix, Linux, and Windows
Copying-policy: Freeware
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