[HN Gopher] Picmunge: An Image-Processing Pipeline
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       Picmunge: An Image-Processing Pipeline
        
       Author : leephillips
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-01-31 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (picmunge.cvservant.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (picmunge.cvservant.com)
        
       | omershapira wrote:
       | If someone were to take this seriously, a node-based image editor
       | on the web is well-overdue, from a technology and UI perspective.
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       | Apple (nreal) Shake is exactly 25 years old today, and many other
       | interactive framerate node-based image tools
       | (nuke/smoke/fusion/touchdesigner/substance painter) run on
       | machines with a fraction of the compute a web browser has
       | nowadays.
       | 
       | p.s - the backend makes you much slower, most of these image
       | transformations are less than 10 lines of non-shader code :)
        
         | leephillips wrote:
         | Yeah, I guess it could be snappier if everything were computed
         | in the browser. But doing the processing on the back end lets
         | me use any technology I want. Some of the transformations are
         | actually fairly involved.
        
         | ur-whale wrote:
         | Nothing Real's Shake [1] was a really amazing piece of tech,
         | especially it's ability to go back and forth from a DAG of
         | image processing nodes to a full blown C-style (yet actually
         | functional) compiled programming language.
         | 
         | It's kind of surprising nothing similar has cropped up in the
         | OpenSource world in the last 20+ years.
         | 
         | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real
        
       | leephillips wrote:
       | Mainly an amusement, but might be useful. I wanted to experiment
       | with a user interface to a pipeline of transformations, where the
       | order of transformations can be altered by direct manipulation,
       | and each transformation can be tuned by changing a parameter.
       | 
       | Could be monetized by charging a small amount for the high-
       | resolution download.
        
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