This library facilitates conversion between friday
(an all-Haskell image manipulation library) and
JuicyPixels (an all-Haskell encoder/decoder
library for many image formats). Combining these two libraries is useful for adding basic
image manipulation capabilities of many image formats to a Haskell application without
requiring any C libraries/headers to be installed.
NOTE: Expect this library’s API to break, as it is still very young.
Compared to friday-devil
The friday-devil package provides a storage backend to friday by calling the
DevIL library. It is much more mature, and probably
a lot faster (though benchmarks have yet to prove this).
This package is not in the spirit of friday-devil which is a more native bridge than
conversion . As such, it should probabably be called something different like
juicy-friday.
TODO
Make it into a storage backend that automatically converts all formats and
color spaces supported by JuicyPixels to the internal representations
supported by friday.
Add some benchmarks. Include friday-devil and ImageMagik.
Add more specs.
Done:
Conversion between JP and Friday for cheap using coerce and unsafeCoerce, yay!