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

Posted by Derin Korman on Oct 04, 2011; 4:15am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image-Processing-in-Art-Is-Imagej-the-right-tool-tp3682462p3682468.html

It's been a while since I did any Actionscripting so familiarity is
not crucial at this point, more the learning curve and versatility.
Luckily, processing is also java, so I can run java within it if I
find imagej stack functions to be more useful. Thanks a lot for your
input

Best,
-derin



On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:59 PM, David Webster <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Derin,
>
> Actionscript is a superset of javascript, so you ought to be able to use
> that as well as imagej's macro language.
>
> If you are refering to OpenCV, my expeience is that the libs weren't really
> very portabel. This is why I started with ImageJ. As a long time C/C++
> programmer,  I can say that Java and imageJs plugins are easier to learn how
> to use.
>
> David Webster
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Derin Korman <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>