Re: some filters i have wrote.

[Tim Lister <tal@maxtal.com.au>]

At 03:12 PM 7/30/99 +0400, Ilya Razmanov wrote:
>Category: Toadies
>Title: Rasterline...

nice. i am working my way through your filters,
and they are a lot of fun so far.

i've been talking with afriend of mine, and he says that
all we really need is a single plugin that presents the image
to a shell running a Java applet, a Tcl/Tk script engine, or
a Python interpreter, and the interpreter will put up a GUI,
take the input, modify the preview, apply it when asked,
then allow other "plugin scripts" to be executed.

i asked whether the code was written yet, and he went
"pfui! that's the easy bit" so i guess he's going to have
a go.

if it works it'll be free.

then anyone can write anything they want to manipulate images in
any way that they want, and it'll be open season on filters.

or so my friend hopes.

more realistically, i am collecting as many FFisms as i can, so as
to warn newer afficionados of the little quirks and foibles that
await the unwary.

1. the "cnv" business, and what to do about it (thanks guys)
2. the <expr>?put(...):put(...) trap (thanks alf!)
3. indexing arrays with get(<expr>+get(<expr>))
4. Quadruple your code space! (write to the alpha channel only)
5. ... others? ... if you have a little list, mail it to me directly,
   and i'll have something up by next week

regards,
	 tal
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