ImagePlay
Creative
image processing
SHOW HN2015
451points
167comments
#24of 2,565 in 2015
Top 1%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
15 positive, 42 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 13 critical, out of 76 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 9 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for learning and rapid prototyping of image processing
From 3 comments
Awesome! Tools that give you real-time feedback like this really help those learning image analysis/computer vision.
willcodeforfoo on HNAbsolutely awesome. I am about to embark on a large image processing / ML project for work. This is just what I need!
Thriptic on HNWow, that is totally awesome and potentially can save me a lot of time in the future. Up to now I prototyped most of my OpenCV stuff with small python scripts. I guess this has…
Dobiasd on HN
Reminds commenters of mathmap, Khoros and similar tools
From 2 comments
This reminds me of the mathmap GIMP plugin [1]. I played around with it a long time ago. [1] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/
leni536 on HNReminds me of Khoros[1] and Cantata[2] that I used back in the early 90's. Sadly neither seem to exist anymore. [1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/92/HPL-92-96.pdf [2]…
iamflimflam1 on HN
Objections
Crashes on OS X and on trackpad scrolling
From 3 comments
Bug: after loading a 1.5mb image on OS X 10.11 Beta, scrolling in the image viewer causes it to crash. EDIT: Turns out not loading an image and just trying to scroll with the…
chrischen on HNCrashes every time I open it up on 10.9.5.
antrover on HN(EDIT: nevermind, bug was already reported: https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/issues/51 )
Gravityloss on HN
GPL license limits use for some
From 2 comments
Personally, I think it's a shame. GPL generally puts me off as the licence is too complex for me to understand and I don't understand in what situations I can and cannot use it.…
alexchamberlain on HNGPL = kthxbye
kungfooman on HN
Requires compiling, not truly for everybody
From 1 comment
Please change the title. If it requires compiling it is far from being "for Everybody". It definitely is a neat project. Like it.
rebootthesystem on HN
Requests
Python bindings or programmatic access
From 1 comment
Very cool. I would love to be able to programmatically interact with this through python bindings, though, rather than the GUI.
legutierr on HN
Export as code
From 1 comment
Great project! Would be nice to have something like an "export as code" feature.
fgtx on HN
More examples and documentation
From 2 comments
Any tool like this really really needs to come with some examples. It's so much more inviting and inspiring when you can play with a range of existing set-ups. (Maybe it does -…
andybak on HNAwesome project, I can't wait until there is a section on the website talking about "use this chain if you want X".
god_bless_texas on HN
Questions
What processing engine is used and does it support 3D and int16 data
From 1 comment
What is this using to do the actual processing? (i.e. is this using OpenCV behind the scenes or ITK or it's own code)? Can this handle: 1. int16 and float data 2. 3D datasets
JupiterMoon on HN
Difference from GIMP and Photoshop
From 2 comments
How it compares to Gimp? I use this tool to do various processing (mainly photomontages), and there is a lot of filters, so, what is added by imageplay?
scriptproof on HNAwesome project, can this compete somehow with photoshop in the future? Project has almost everything, custom plug-ins, custom filters, open source, devs can develop bindings and…
tuyguntn on HN
Alternatives named
G'MIC
From 1 comment
Yes this might be a future option to open the Plug-Ins to other programming languages. You might also look into the from rer0tsaz proposed…
loomi on HN
ImageJ
From 1 comment
Looks very nice. ImageJ is another great free image processing tool: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/ I’ve used this for example for removing a gradient background from a photographed…
rndn on HN
mathmap
From 1 comment
This reminds me of the mathmap GIMP plugin [1]. I played around with it a long time ago. [1] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/
leni536 on HN
Khoros and Cantata
From 1 comment
Reminds me of Khoros[1] and Cantata[2] that I used back in the early 90's. Sadly neither seem to exist anymore. [1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/92/HPL-92-96.pdf [2]…
iamflimflam1 on HN
RoboRealm
From 1 comment
I used to play with roborealm when it was still free; it provides the same sort of high level abstraction to experimenting with computer vision and comes with a big library of…
oh_teh_meows on HN