Fractals/Computer graphic techniques/2D

Direct links Color and Color gradient 2D plane. Quality of the image Optimisation graphic pipeline 2D graphic algorithms Software All tasks (image processing IPOL Journal · Image Processing On Line) can be done using: own programs (GUI or console) own programs and graphic libraries graphic programs like GIMP fractal programs like: fractint xaos mandel by Wolf Jung One can use free graphic libraries: ImageMagickImageMagick image processing libraries GEGLGEGL (Generic Graphics Library) DeviLhttp://openil.sourceforge.net/ FreeImagehttp://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ GDGD Graphics Library GraphicsMagickGraphicsMagick OpenCVOpenCv OpenImageIOOpenImageIO Targets in graphics processing Here are 3 targets / tasks: graphic file (saving/ loading image) memory array (processing image) screen pixels (displaying image) Memory array Image in memory is a matrix: A 24-bit color image is an (Width x Height x 3) matrix. Gray-level and black-and-white images are of size (Width x Height). The color depth of the image: 8-bit for gray 24 or 32-bit for color, 1-bit for black and white. Screen pixels glxinfo | grep OpenGL glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" DRI Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI2)w:Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) References