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Legacy documents and resources about history of Adobe GIL/Boost GIL

Authors

Quote from Lubomir's website

The software engineering project I am most proud of was the Generic Image Library (GIL) I wrote together at Adobe with my colleague Hailin Jin. This library allows one to decompose algothims from image layouts and write the algorithm once and have it work with all kinds of images without loss of performance. GIL is now part of the Boost libraries and is used by many companies and universities. It was a great honor for me to be invited by Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, to give a talk about GIL at Texas A&M University.

Acknowledgements

Copied from the legacy website at https://stlab.adobe.com/gil

We would like to thank the following people for their valuable feedback in improving the library: Tervel Atanassov, Foster Brereton, Christian Henning, Jaakko Järvic, Hirotaka Niitsuma, Mark Ruzon, Jon Brandt, Douglas Gregor, Andrew Lumsdaine, Tom Malloy, Paul McJones, Martin Newell, Sean Parent, Alex Stepanov, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Jeremiah Willcock.

We would also like to thank the Boost community for the extensive review. We would like to specifically acknowledge Ullrich K�the, Thorsten Behrens, Tom Brinkman, Fernando Cacciola, Matt Gruenke, Joel De Guzman, Christian Henning, Janek Kozicki, Jose, Stefan Seefeld, Oleg Abrosimov, Tervel Atanassov, Andrea Carbone, Tim Day, Rasmus Ekman, Simon Francis, Andy Little, Hans Meine, Timothy M. Shead and Pavel Chikulaev.

Apologies for anyone inadvertently missed.

Timeline

Copied from the legacy website at https://stlab.adobe.com/gil

  • September 15, 2007 - GIL 2.1.1 released. This is a bug fixing release and includes minor API changes to make the interfaces more consistent. Detailed release notes are available here.
  • June 17, 2007 - GIL 2.1 released. Added support for non-byte-aligned pixels (examples: 6-bit RGB222, or 1-bit grayscale). Detailed release notes are available here.
  • March 27, 2007 - Minor patch released. GIL regression test improvements. Removed any external dependencies from the regression tests. Minor bug fixes in GIL.
  • March 8, 2007 - GIL 2.0 Released. Major GIL release. Includes further Boost integration and improved design of channels, pixels and images. See what is new here.
  • January 3, 2007 - Minor patch. We added back the ability to assign a channel to a grayscale pixel and fixed some minor issues with color converted views of dynamic images.
  • November 7, 2006 - GIL was accepted to Boost. GIL's Boost review was successful and GIL will be part of the Boost libraries. It will most likely first appear in the 1.35 version of Boost. In the future our web page will continue to provide you with the latest improvements to GIL, as we have the flexibility to release more frequently than Boost.
  • October 20, 2006 - Posted code example files and regression tests. Code sample files and regression tests can now be obtained from the download page. We also added a minor update to GIL core
  • October 2, 2006 - Added the first version of the numeric extension. The numeric extension provides some basic image processing algorithms, such as convolution and resampling. Various other minor channges to GIL include introduction of pixel traits, consistent use of MPL predicates and standardized template parameter names.
  • September 20, 2006 - Color conversion improvemenents. GIL now allows users to overload the default color conversion with one of their own. A new section in the design guide describes how to do that.
  • August 29, 2006 - GIL version 1.01 is posted. Pixel dereference adaptors are introduced. The locator concepts/models are made more generic. It is now easier to construct virtual image views. An example of creating the Mandelbrot set is described in the tutorial.
  • June 27, 2006 - A GIL Flash presentation is posted.
  • June 14, 2006 - GIL homepage goes live.

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