About CLIPsMaster

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[edit] About

CLIPsMaster stands for "Command Line Image Processors Master". Basically there are so many command line image processors, that even an expert cannot have all the names and functions by-heart. Moreover, for a Desktop user, they cannot take all the advantages of such tools. My idea is to create a knowledge-base of all the different command line image processors, the functions they provide, inputs, outputs, command line parameters, configuration files and more, categorized and well organised.

The orginial ideas has been to write an app that uses specification files for each tool and make stacking operations as easy as drag and drop. Some of the features would be:

1. Almost every Non-GUI function possible would be taken from an already existing command line tool ( In other words, say "hail command line!")
2. Album management, with extensibility using already existing command line
3. Batch processing
4. Previews for all Image modifying / information extraction functions
5. Good explanation of what is going on in the background. Gives all the commands and reasons for choosing it.
6. Automatic function chain detection. It should be able to think intelligently in such situations such as :
   1. "I have a tool to convert bmp to png, I need not look further."
   2. "I need to convert from bmp to png, but i do not have any tool. But lemme see. I have bmp2pnm and pnmtopng! Aha! "
   3. "I need to thumbnail an openexr image. I can convert png to exr and I can thumbnail a png"
7. Saving of operations stack for re-use/sharing.

[edit] Action Plan

I have divided the process into simple steps.

1. List all command line image processing tools/tool families we cam lay hands on. 2. List out and explain their functions, and categorize their functions. 3. Detail input, ouput and parameters of each function. 4. Find patterns in the data collected in the above.

Thats not all folks! More to come! Keep watching