On 6/19/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
When you work on the hash store for primary storage you'll have to address thumbnails. When you do this, please keep in mind the ability to create thumbs with multiple parameters beyond size, I'm not suggesting that such extensions need be implemented today, I just want us to avoid a redesign should we decide to implement them in the future.
These first two suggestions would be good, as a good thumbnail is rarely the same thing as "reduce X and Y dimensions by 80%" for instance. It would probably be even more helpful to be able to store thumbnail metadata on the image itself, so that any time it was used as a thumbnail, the right portion of the image was automatically used.
A sharper thumbnail would, in general, be useful - not sure whether a parameter is specifically required.
Steve