[Radiance-general] Re: wxfalsecolor v0.1 binary download available

[R Fritz]

Has anyone else tried this on Mac OS? It doesn't work for me--is it 
working for anyone?

A lot of the files in the Python Package Index (PyPI) are wrappers of 
various sorts--I don't think that's a barrier.

Anyhow, next week I think I'll dig into this & see if I can find out 
why falsecolor2.py doesn't work on Mac.

Randolph

On 2010-04-21 01:12:42 -0700, Thomas Bleicher said:

> Morning.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:38 PM, R Fritz 
> <randolph+LD at panix.com> wrote:
>> Very cool. & I even think I see something I can add to the project. Would
>> you like me to try packaging falsecolor2.py for inclusion in the Python
>> package index?
> 
> If you think it's worth doing it. I myself wouldn't advertise the
> scripts as Python packages because the depend so heavily on Radiance.
> 
> BTW: Did you try the app already? I just got a report of a
> warning/error message popping up on Windows XP. I haven't seen it at
> home but here at work I can reproduce the message. I wonder if you had
> seen it, too.
> 
> About further development:
> 
> I'm happy with what I have now. I only needed an image viewer that
> wouldn't exceed the size of my screen like ximage does. The falsecolor
> features where a nice add on I wanted to use to check my future
> improvements on the falsecolor2 script.
> 
> I thought about restructuring the code to allow multiple images being
> presented at the same time which would then allow us to perform some
> image manipulations on them via pcomb (difference, relative
> difference, blend, mask etc). However, when I need to do this now I'm
> happy to do it on the command line. So it will probably not happen
> soon unless there is a demand for these features.
> 
> I keep a TODO list in the source code tree:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/pyrat/source/browse/trunk/wxfalsecolor/TODO
> 
> I forgot to add "support for more image formats via PIL". I think that
> covers my ideas for an image viewer.
> 
> I started the pyrat project on code.google.com because I have more
> ideas for small tools that might be useful for others (especially on
> Windows) and a few older Python scripts which might be resurrected in
> the context.
> 
> 
> 1) rad2 / wxrad2
> 
> A new (graphical) rif file processor. I already had written parts of
> rad in Python for my old Blender exporter. It's basically there to
> avoid the need for a command line. You should be able to explore the
> dependency tree, the individual calculation steps and progress of
> running jobs. There are a couple of advanced calculation methods out
> there (like stencil) that could be easily supported by a frontend like
> this. Similar to trad and Ecotect's Radiance Control Panel.
> 
> 
> 2) render daemon
> 
> A small app that sits in your task bar and watches your running and
> incoming *.rif or makefile-type render jobs. Could also have a network
> component which offloads the work to a render server or farm. I need
> something like this as a starting point for scenes exported from
> Sketchup.
> 
> 
> 3) Python bindings for HDR images
> 
> falsecolor2 uses the subprocess module and pvalue to read image data.
> That takes a long time and is needlessly complicated. I would like to
> try to compile the few methods necessary as C Python extensions. After
> that the functionality of pcompos, pcomb and other p* apps could be
> reimplemented in pure Python (or those could be made Python extensions
> as well).
> 
> 
> 4) couple of scripts to create plots and PDF reports from grids
> 
> 
> If your interested in any of this you're most welcome to join the project.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas


-- 
Randolph Fritz