2009/4/22 Michael Dale mdale@wikimedia.org:
Marco Schuster wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.comwrote:
- Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical), will be building a
thumbnailing daemon, so image manipulation won't have to happen on the Apache servers any more
Wow, I'm lookin' forward to this. Mighta be worth a try to give the upper the ability to choose non-standard resizing filters or so... or full-fledged image manipulation, something like a wiki-style photoshop.
I was looking at http://editor.pixastic.com/ ... "wiki-style photoshop" would be cool ... but not in the scope of that soc project ;)
You can do pretty much anything with ImageMagick. Trouble is that it's not the fastest at *anything*. Depends how much that affects performance in practice - something that *just* thumbnails could be all sorts of more efficient, but you'd need a new program for each function, and most Unix users of MediaWiki thumbnail with ImageMagick already so it'll be there.
- d.