by rstevenson » Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:40 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:45 pm
The processing required is simple and could easily be done via browser scripting, even on some weak little Chromebook. There are browser-based image processing tools that do much more sophisticated tasks.
There is a famous online tool (which shall remain nameless), used within a browser to design objects—furniture, hardware, structures, whatever strikes your fancy—which promises a great deal and likely delivers it, to some users somewhere. It uses B&W line drawings and basic fill patterns and colours. And yet it’s almost uselessly slow and clunky in my not particularly slow and clunky iMac. When I think of that example of online image processing and apply it to what Victor was suggesting, I can’t imagine how bad such a tool would be within a browser. He suggests multiple B&W images, nice large astrophotographs I assume, being overlaid and each independently assigned a range of colours, adjustable via sliders. Even if the web interface is kept as simple as possible, you’ll still have to wait for the image processing to occur on the backend server and for the result to be sent over the always slower than you’re paying for network.
Perhaps some day in that bright future, we’ll all have network access to infinite processing power such that it matters not what device you use or where the device is in relation to your data files, but we ain’t there yet.
Rob
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The processing required is simple and could easily be done via browser scripting, even on some weak little Chromebook. There are browser-based image processing tools that do much more sophisticated tasks.
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There is a famous online tool (which shall remain nameless), used within a browser to design objects—furniture, hardware, structures, whatever strikes your fancy—which promises a great deal and likely delivers it, to some users somewhere. It uses B&W line drawings and basic fill patterns and colours. And yet it’s almost uselessly slow and clunky in my not particularly slow and clunky iMac. When I think of that example of online image processing and apply it to what Victor was suggesting, I can’t imagine how bad such a tool would be within a browser. He suggests multiple B&W images, nice large astrophotographs I assume, being overlaid and each independently assigned a range of colours, adjustable via sliders. Even if the web interface is kept as simple as possible, you’ll still have to wait for the image processing to occur on the backend server and for the result to be sent over the always slower than you’re paying for network.
Perhaps some day in that bright future, we’ll all have network access to infinite processing power such that it matters not what device you use or where the device is in relation to your data files, but we ain’t there yet.
Rob