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

Posted by josh foster on Oct 02, 2011; 5:59pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image-Processing-in-Art-Is-Imagej-the-right-tool-tp3682462p3682472.html

ImageJ already has subtraction/difference calculation functions built-in to
the basic program. With some programming in Java, you should be able to
easily write plugins that can do everything else you described.

Josh

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:32 PM, 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
>