The GIMP has scripting built in, in the Linux ver and *I believe* the independant
Win9X port.

Derek

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <39B### [at] ijnet>, Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ijnet> wrote:
>
> >       I have no idea what MegaPovPlus is up to and perhaps someone could
> > enlighten me.
> >
> >       In linux Gimp can do it better. In Windows Adobe has a free picture
> > editor that is essentially everything of PhotoShop save the things
> > needed for printing which does it better.
> >
> >       I have not dug into post processing but if it does not stand alone then
> > what use is it?
>
> It's main advantage is automation, you can define a set of filters to be
> applied and have it automatically done when the render is finished. For
> example, you could have a logo automatically added by just adding a
> couple lines. If you want a higher resolution image, you can just render
> it at a higher resolution, and don't have to go through and re-process
> the image.
> It also has information that other programs can't get, so there are some
> filters which would be impossible to make as a stand-alone program, the
> focal blur, depth, and normal filters for example. In future versions,
> you will be able to have per-object filters. Also, it has access to the
> full-precision color values, while other programs can only access the
> values after being clipped to a 0-1 range and usually reduced to 8 bits
> per component.
> And finally, many post_process filters can be controlled by pigments,
> which would be much more difficult to do in an external program(you
> would have to render an image of the pigment separately).
>
> --
> Christopher James Huff
> Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
> TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
>
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