Fabrizio Giudici's Blog

First, the context

I think that it's a good thing that I first describe the context where my next posts will live. Well, it's a cluster of opensource projects mainly for the desktop, about photo processing:

• blueMarine is a desktop application for supporting the workflow of a digital photographer;
• jrawio is a Java Image I/O plugin for dealing with the "camera raw" file formats produced by the medium-top camera bodies from manufacturers such as Nikon, Canon, Sony, etc...
• Mistral is the image processing engine of blueMarine (which is an abstraction layer over JAI or ImageJ)

Everything started in Summer 2003 when I bought my first digital single-lens reflex camera (for the record a Nikon D100) and I was intrigued by the "camera raw" world, as it gave you the opportunity to "develop" your own photos (for people not aware of it, in a few words "camera raw" formats are the raw dump of data from the camera sensor - they require extensive processing to deliver a viewable image and in this processing there's a lot of flexibility and control from the photographer).

But as the project evolved, it turned out to be also a very good platform to experiment with cool Java technologies. It's a way to kill two birds with one stone: my professional interest in Java and my passion about photography.

Comments

• Java + Swing + Digital Photography? Man, I can't wait to read your posts!

  Posted by: gfx on November 06, 2006 at 02:55 PM

• Well, gfx, many things were learned from your blog (and joshy's, and others') in the past year. But I'm going to "contaminate" the cited technologies with strange things, such as Jini. The result can be either totally idiotic or interesting - let's wait and see :-)

  Posted by: fabriziogiudici on November 06, 2006 at 03:02 PM

• As long as photos and RAW files are involved, I'm fine with it ;-)

  Posted by: gfx on November 06, 2006 at 03:03 PM

• I can't wait to see what interesting things you can do with Jini. It's a technology that has always struck me as being underused.

  Posted by: joshy on November 06, 2006 at 11:19 PM

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