Simple C image library?

+1 A:

You definitely want to look at the imagemagik c connector api. It is very easy to get going, and the linked page has some nice code samples.

And there is always the ubiquitous GD library. It is not hard to use either.

Byron Whitlock 2010-04-29 20:28:06

+2 A:

I think FreeImage is the best one out there:

http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/

Andreas Brinck 2010-04-29 20:30:39

it looks in C++

Timmy 2010-04-29 20:33:31

No FreeImage is a pure C library, although there is a C++ version called FreeImagePlus which wraps the C structs and functions in classes.

Andreas Brinck 2010-04-29 20:34:27

+1 A:

I like gd. Real popular.

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xcramps 2010-04-29 20:32:26

+1 A:

Simple Direct-media Layer (SDL) with SDL_image

Judge Maygarden 2010-04-29 21:36:02

+2 A:

You could also just read and write raw image RGB values to a binary file, if that is really all you need, and if you know the image size ahead of time.

bde 2010-04-29 22:09:58

That's true. BMP and TGA file formats are also very simple to parse or generate.

Judge Maygarden 2010-04-30 13:37:05

+3 A:

All these libraries are way too complicated for me. In your place I'd grit my teeth, define an abstraction for a dynamic two-dimensional array, and I'd read and write plain ASCII PNM format.

Norman Ramsey 2010-04-30 00:58:49

I have done the same before to test some image processing algorithms. It is very easy. Just write header (in ascii) and put you pixel data after.

Ross 2010-04-30 11:43:40

this is wat i ended up doing, using convert to switch between fmts

Timmy 2010-04-30 14:50:59

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