Hacked the night away on an article for RBDeveloper which was, as usual, overdue, but less than usual… I have been playing in my column with graphics, trying to provide faster routines, or missing ones, or whatnot. This time, I am on the warpath, of sorts. I am building a Picture object from scratch, since it is missing for command-line applications. Part 1, which I sent off a few minutes ago, implements the framework and enough methods to be a good proof of concept. It can read and write JPEG files, and manipulate RGB bitmaps internally via a dynamic library I wrote for this purpose. The results are interesting so far, as I manage to speed up things quite a bit. Of course, the objective is twofold: speed is nice, but the ultimate goal is to provide an independent Picture class, dubbed fPic (f for fast , see?), that’ll enable us to manipulate graphics in command-line applications.

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