[Ruby] ImageScience and rotation

[Ryan Davis]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 21:59 , Dave Myron wrote:

> Currently, ImageScience is billed as a fast and easy thumbnailing  
> tool.
>
> Is there interest in making it more robust? I'm really interested  
> in using
> FreeImage's JPG "lossless" rotation transformations (see
> FreeImage_JPEGTransform) and ImageScience would be a great place  
> for it
> considering that rotation fits fairly well under the thumbnailing  
> umbrella.
>
> I don't know C but I think I can follow the existing inline stuff well
> enough to expose the rotation routines with a little help from a  
> partner. It
> would probably be easy to use the JPG transformations directly  
> (just takes
> an input file, an output file and one of the enumerated operations)  
> but
> would be nice to make it Rubyesque and handle other filetypes with
> FreeImage's other rotation methods.

I'd be open to providing this as a layer on top, certainly.

> If you're interested, please contact me and maybe we can grab a  
> drink and
> extend ImageScience's capabilities. Or it could happen at the next  
> hack
> night. It's 7pm. maybe I could even make it to tonight's if I hurry.

Unfortunately, I'm currently in NYC. Evan is at the meeting tonight  
tho and he's a champ at C and knows inline quite well.