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The library allows for any image parameter to be specified 95at run time, at a minor performance cost.</p> 96</div> 97<div class="section" id="extensibility"> 98<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Extensibility</a></h2> 99<p>Virtually every construct in GIL can be extended - new channel types, 100color spaces, layouts, iterators, locators, image views and images 101can be provided by modeling the corresponding GIL concepts.</p> 102</div> 103<div class="section" id="compatibility"> 104<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Compatibility</a></h2> 105<p>The library is designed as an STL complement. 106Generic STL algorithms can be used for pixel manipulation, and they are 107specifically targeted for optimization. The library works with existing 108raw pixel data from another image library.</p> 109</div> 110</div> 111 112 113 <div class="navbar" style="text-align:right;"> 114 115 116 <a class="prev" title="Extending" href="extending.html"><img src="../_static/prev.png" alt="prev"/></a> 117 <a class="up" title="Design Guide" href="index.html"><img src="../_static/up.png" alt="up"/></a> 118 <a class="next" title="Image Processing" href="../image_processing/index.html"><img src="../_static/next.png" alt="next"/></a> 119 120 </div> 121 </div> 122 <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> 123 Last updated on 2020-08-11 15:08:48. 124 Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.5.6. 125 </div> 126 </body> 127</html>
