Generic Graphical Library, GEGL, is scheduled to be the next generation infrastructure for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). The existing legacy infrastructure of GIMP was deemed not good enough already in 2000 by the people who made the hollywood branch, the branch that eventually turned into the Cinepaint fork. Their cure for GIMPs? weaknesses was a brand new processing core called GEGL.
After years of slumbering GEGL started building strength last summer and is now resurfacing. Through the use of babl for pixel format agnosticism, and reference implementations coded with floating point arithmetic, GEGL aims beyond the currently desired needs of GIMP and might even prove useful for more scientific use. GUI experiments and explorations of possible new open hierarchically structured file formats for raster data exchange are other topics closely related to current GEGL developments.
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