On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, David Joyner<wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi: >> >> I'd like to suggest that PIL be made standard. This requires a vote.
+1 Last week I went to a talk/infomercial on Mathematica at the University of Melbourne. One of the things that impressed the audience was the ability to load an image (in this case, a fish) and very easily and quickly perform some image manipulation on it (e.g. slicing it into 5x5 squares and rearranging the squares to make "scrambled fish"). I'm planning on giving an intro to Sage sometime this year, and although I don't want to make it a response to the Mathematica talk, I'd love to be able to show that we can do a lot of these things. >> Though PIL is written in Python, the trac ticket >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6741 >> adds some functions which make the interface even easier to use in many >> cases. >> > > People can try PIL by typing > > sage -i pil-1.1.6 > > If this fails for anybody they should report this. > > It takes 15 seconds to build on sage.math and 21 seconds on my laptop (OS X). > Built w/o problems on MacBook running 64-bit Ubuntu. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
