existing modules re: image simplification and/or shape tracing?

2013-04-08 Thread Joshua Turcotte
Hello all; first post EVER, so forgive me if I've already violated some SOPs here. I made a tl;dr style post on this same topic at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.lang.perl.modules/QuRnHaA7HTI as well. Question is; before I reinvent the wheel, doth anyone know of already

potentially GD::Image::Filter::Simple ??

2013-07-13 Thread Joshua Turcotte
Hello, all... I posted about this once before under an entirely different namespace prior to realizing that the group of other filters it would have joined at that location (Image::Filter) were all C, wrapped for perl, and that I wasn't equipped to do the same and offer the same API to match the r

Re: potentially GD::Image::Filter::Simple ??

2013-07-18 Thread Joshua Turcotte
something more like: use GD::Image::Filter; my $pic = GD::Image::Filter->newFromPng('blahblah'); # extended? $pic->filter('EdgeSimplify'); # maps out to GD::Image::Filter::EdgeSimplify on demand, but offers a unified api for future pure perl filters *thinks* On Sat, J

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread Joshua Turcotte
While potentially simplistic in its ideal, I can't help but think this could and should be a democratic process; folk nominate examples like GMPASSOS's old work, there's a rebuttal period, and then others vote on it in search of critical thought and mass. Poof. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:44 AM, B