Image Processing in Art (Is Imagej the right tool?)

Posted by Derin Korman on Oct 02, 2011; 5:32pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image-Processing-in-Art-Is-Imagej-the-right-tool-tp3682462.html

Hello Everyone,

I am a Teaching Assistant at Harvard's Visual and Environmental
studies and I have several projects that need image processing. They
mainly revolve around Camera/Image culture, authorship, questions of
singularity (not the positivist one).

I have no previous programming experience apart from some Actionscript
and modifying some github projects, I was wondering if you had a
suggestion as to what language to learn. Processing offers some object
import functions but I couldn't tell if it would suffice(if it does,
that's great as it encompasses some libraries that would ease some
work), ImageJ was recommended to my by Nitin Sampat, C++ naturally has
various image processing libraries, Matlab I know to be very powerful
but one might say it is too difficult a hill to climb before I reach
image processing.

 example tasks: averaging 1000+ images, doing subtraction/difference
calculation, generation of random images, and extracting sequential
pixels/parts from images and combining them in another
([x1,x2,x3][y1,y2,y3][z1,z2,z3] -> [x1,y2,z3])

Best,
-derin
Visual and Environmental Studies
Harvard University