[ptx] Enblend 2.0!

[Edouard Gomez]

Andrew C Mihal (mihal at eecs.berkeley.edu) wrote:
> Today I'm releasing Enblend 2.0.
> 
> http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~mihal/enblend/index.htm
> 
> New features include:
> 
>  * Support for signed and unsigned 16-bit, 32-bit, single- and 
> double-precision floating point pixel types.
> 
>  * No more banding artifacts in the sky, even with 8-bit images.
> 
>  * Sophisticated memory/disk balancing. You can tell Enblend how much 
> memory it is allowed to use, and it will swap to disk after that.
> 
>  * Support for large panoramas. I have tested that Enblend can blend a 1.2 
> gigapixel, 16-bit per channel color image. You should be able to go right 
> up to 4 gigabyte limit of the TIFF format.
> 
>  * Optional blending in CIE L*a*b* color space.
> 
> There are also some new articles on the web page, including a discussion
> on the banding artifacts in the sky, and some details on how Enblend
> works.

I submited a patch long ago for Multilayer TIFF support, now
that enblend uses VIGRA, my patch has become out of date, but
you don't include any multilayer TIFF support, is it planned
or do i have to dig into the code again ?

(i consider this being a kind of regresion for me :-)

-- 
Edouard Gomez