
The review of GIL will begin in the next couple of months. In the mean time you can download the library at: http://opensource.adobe.com/gil The Generic Image Library (GIL) is a C++ library that abstracts the image representation from operations on images. It allows for writing the image processing algorithm once and having it work for images in any color space, channel depth and pixel organization, or even synthetic images, without compromising the performance. GIL has an extension mechanism that allows for adding extra functionality. Two extensions are currently provided – one for image I/O and one for handling images whose properties are specified at run-time. A 55 minute Breeze presentation describing is available at: http://opensource.adobe.com/gil/presentation/index.htm A tutorial is available at: http://opensource.adobe.com/gil/gil_tutorial.pdf A design guide is availage at: http://opensource.adobe.com/gil/gil_design_guide.pdf If you have a background in image processing or if you want to learn about it, download the library and give it a try. Tom Brinkman Review Manager