[cairo] Cairo in Google Summer of Code
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Tue Mar 18 05:08:50 PDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 12:40 +0100, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Here comes a text to substitude the current wiki one.
Thanks. Added.
> Whether the more labourious and below described "colour space per object"
> or a simpler "colour space per cairo context" is appropriate is not yet
> settled down. After the concept is more detailed it should become clear.
Can you please write a layman's intro to color management of the kind
that cairo should be doing? Most of us in cairo still have no idea what
the actual code should do...
Thanks,
behdad
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> [Medium] Add appropriate color-management support to cairo
>
> Cairo needs the ability to allow for colour management. By this project it
> will become possible to work in different colour spaces, convert
> automatically to blend different content and tag graphics objects to tell
> backends about the colour spaces involved. The colour space information
> will follow the ICC standard.
> Learn about the constraints at different OS'es and handle API abstraction.
> During the programming work you will design and implement the
> corresponding means covering frontside API's and backend specific code due
> to file formats and other specific requirements.
> A small application, showing the new capabilities, will help in spotting
> problems and can later be used for demonstrations.
> A unit test and documentation is required for maintainablility and further
> easy deployment.
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>
> Certainly me and other OpenICC people would like to discuss such a
> project to make suggestions. At least I am open to dig deeper into
> this. Even if I have no previous experiences from internal work on Cairo,
> if you search for a mentor for this project feel free to add me.
>
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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