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Spencer Kimball's OnlinePhotoLab
Spencer Kimball, best
known for co-creating that little app known as The Gimp, wrote in to let us know what he's doing these days. He, along with four other XCF members have created OnlinePhotoLab.com.
Using the Gimp as a backend, it provides 50 megs of storage, and the ability to perform many normal gimp functions on images. Also provides an easy facility for sharing your images. Most interesting is the hardware. Spencer says "We have ten Linux boxes,
each a dual processor running four GIMP engines, for a total of
40 engines. We estimate we can process about a million image
requests per day. The cost of hardware was less than $25k." Here's hoping it can withstand the Slashdot Effect: it worked great
last night ;)
This is wonderful. I wonder if they'll allow deep linking into gimp functions - it'd be neat if I could make a script that would adjust the image urls, such that I could 'ripple a page' (just the images on the page anyway) or do a contrast image on the page as i view it. This sort of thing might be neat functionality to build into a mozilla plugin. Help for the visually impared? Also, using the text plugin sites could autogenerate text images using crazy fonts and autoplug into their site. This is of course provided that the gimp site thingie posts via 'get' but I havnt checked that yet. Cool tho :)